Senior Business Systems Analyst

at  BES Group

WHO WE ARE IN A NUTSHELL.

At BES Group, we pride ourselves on being the leading end to end risk management solutions provider in the UK and Ireland. That means it’s our job to help keep our customers assets’ legally compliant, operational and, above all else, safe. And we do this with a team of the very best people, simple.
Our Group IS Team has a significant responsibility for the strategic and continuous improvement of our operations across BES Group. This role offers an outstanding opportunity to join our business at a key moment in our evolution and to make a lasting impact on our technology organisation and business systems capability. We are a rapidly growing Private Equity backed business and are highly acquisitive in the engineering Testing, Inspection and Consultancy sector. BES Group currently comprises 1900 office and field force team members across 15 businesses, more than half of which have been acquired in the last 2-years.

WE WANT YOU TO BE YOU

Our focus on diversity, equality and inclusion is here to stay.
Our team is made up of some of the most skilled and talented people and that’s what matters to us. At BES Group, we want our people to know that they can be their true authentic selves at work, it really is that simple.
What’s more, we’re a Real Living Wage employer across our complete business and we are delighted to have pledged our commitment to the military community by signing the Armed Forces Covenant.
Go for it! Research suggests that some people tend to only apply for roles if they meet all requirements. If you don’t meet every point above, but still feel like you could really help make a difference in this role, please apply, you might be exactly what we’re looking for.
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Reporting to the Head of Inspection Systems, as a Senior Business Systems Analyst you will be responsible for shaping, leading and playing a key role in the delivery of a portfolio of continuous improvement activities for our planning systems and processes. Our UK Engineering Inspection operations are critical to the overall commercial performance of our business. Within these operations, our Field Service Planning System is responsible for the efficient scheduling of over 500 UK based field service engineers. This is a customised system based on FLS Visitour and is tightly integrated with our policy administration and other systems, in a Microsoft centric system landscape.
You will be a key member of our IS team as you further develop and apply extensive expertise in field service planning systems.

You will:

• Collate, curate and manage our planning systems improvement backlog and coordinate the governance board to select and prioritise initiatives to progress.
• Support and participate in the design and build of solutions for the selected improvements, working withing a multi-disciplinary Planning Improvement Team (comprised of senior operations colleagues, vendor product experts, data scientists as well as IT architects and developers).
• Plan and execute testing as part of the solution delivery process.
• Coordinate acceptance testing with planning systems operations colleagues.
• Manage the successful technical and operational deployment of changes.
• Identify further opportunities for further improvement by applying your planning system expertise and collaborating with other members of the Planning Improvement Team.
• Provide level 2/3 planning system expert production support as required.