Business Analyst - SAP Upgrade Programme

Posting

Start Date:

01/10/2026

Job

School/Department: IT Services

Work Arrangement:
Full Time (Hybrid)

Contract Type:
Fixed-term

Salary per annum (£): £38,784 - £47,389 per annum

Closing Date: 15/10/2026

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You will provide dedicated Business Analysis capability across the SAP Upgrade Programme, developing and consolidating the broader set of requirements needed to define programme scope, inform procurement and give Systems Integrators (SIs) and delivery teams a coherent basis for subsequent design and delivery.

The role will complement the existing SAP functional consultants. Its focus is not to duplicate functional requirements activity, but to work across functional, data and technical areas where requirements are currently distributed across multiple people, work streams and sources of information.

The programme has strong SAP functional consultancy capability focused on functional requirements. However, the overall requirement set also needs to cover reporting and information, data, data migration, integration, archiving and cross-functional problem areas. Subject‑matter ownership exists across the programme and University, but there is limited capacity to review the existing material, identify gaps and pull these requirements into a consistent and usable whole.

Inputs will include existing functional requirements, workshop outputs, parking‑lot items, known data quality issues, programme decisions and targeted requirements work still to be completed. The resulting requirement set must be sufficiently clear to steer SI scope and procurement, while recognising that appointed SIs will subsequently validate and elaborate requirements during delivery.

• Review existing functional requirements and supporting material to identify data, reporting, migration, integration and cross‑functional implications.
• Review workshop parking‑lot items, known data issues, decisions and other programme material to identify requirements that have not yet been captured or are insufficiently defined.
• Work with functional, data, technical and business leads to elicit, challenge, structure and consolidate requirements across the programme.
• Plan and facilitate targeted conversations and workshops where material gaps need to be addressed.
• Develop reporting and information requirements, including distinguishing operational or single‑source reporting needs from wider multi‑source reporting and analytics requirements.
• Develop data migration requirements covering scope, history, business rules, transformation, reconciliation, validation and other migration considerations.
• Develop and consolidate data‑specific requirements, including data quality, retention and archiving requirements.
• Identify cross‑functional requirements and dependencies where processes, data or reporting needs span functional domains.
• Capture integration‑related requirements and implications in collaboration with the relevant technical and functional specialists.
• Apply sensible industry and implementation good practice where requirements cannot yet be fully derived from existing material or…