Business Analyst Level 1

Join Air France-KLM's Digital Finance and Procurement (DF&P) Team

At Air France-KLM, our Digital Finance and Procurement (DF&P) is the strategic knowledge center managing critical financial data and information, acting as the vital bridge between our business users and IT suppliers. We enable data-driven decisions and are continuously optimizing our services for optimal processes and architecture. As a Business Analyst, you'll join our DF&P Data domain team of specialists, focusing on the End-2-End process of delivering a data product—from data ingestion in a data warehouse solution to the delivery of the product (report, analytics) requested by the Business. You will play a pivotal role in supporting DF&P's strategic move to the Cloud, contributing to our continuous improvement and shaping your own career path within a dynamic, international environment.

What will you do?

As a Business Analyst, you will be the essential link between our Product Owners, Project Managers, and the technical IT teams. Your primary role is to deeply comprehend and translate complex business requirements into meaningful insights and actionable specifications for our IT developers. Equally important, you will translate complex technical concepts into clear, simple terms, ensuring everyone understands and is aligned.

Specifically, you will:

• Collaborate & Define: Work closely with stakeholders to understand the problem, define it, narrow its scope, and then specify the requirements for possible solutions.
• Agile Requirements Management: Refine the Epics and User Stories created by the Product Owner, ensuring they meet all Acceptance Criteria. You will meticulously cover every business rule and ensure the functionality of the User Story is proper and complete.
• System Thinking & Interoperability: Proactively think of the interoperability of modules, assessing how new features, updates, and especially Cloud-based solutions, would affect other modules and the overall financial data landscape.
• Documentation & Value: Create comprehensive documentation that lays out how users will interact with a product or service, while also clearly explaining its value and why they need it.
• Proactive Problem Solving: Anticipate and analyze the evolving needs of the businesses to find innovative solutions to address their problems and drive continuous improvement.
• Cloud Transformation Support: Actively contribute to the requirements gathering and implementation phases of our strategic move to the Cloud, ensuring business needs are met in the new environment.
• Define and execute UAT: Define and execute test plans and validate if it matches with functional requirements.

Your profile

We are looking for a proactive and adaptable Business Analyst who thrives in a dynamic environment and can efficiently switch between topics within one of DF&P Data domain teams. You are genuinely eager to understand and map complex business processes, acting as a proactive partner for our Product Owners and project teams. You are not afraid to take ownership of assigned processes and applications within your domain, continuously seeking ways to optimize them. Beyond identifying improvements, you possess the practical mindset and analytical rigor to contribute to driving your ideas to implementation.

For this position, you must possess strong analytical and reporting skills. You have a passion for tackling challenging and complex issues within a multicultural and international environment, complemented by excellent communication skills that enable you to bridge technical and business worlds seamlessly.

Also, you have:

• Experience: 3+ years of experience as a Business Analyst, preferably within a Finance, Controlling, or Procurement domain.
• Analytical Prowess: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to break down complex problems into manageable components.
• Communication Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and vice-versa.
• Stakeholder Management: Ability to build strong relationships and support in managing expectations.
• Data Savvy: Familiarity with data concepts, data modeling, SQL, and experience working with large datasets.
• Finance Acumen: Understanding of core financial processes (e.g., General Ledger, Accounts Payable/Receivable, Financial Reporting, Budgeting & Forecasting).
• Cloud & Data Platform Knowledge: Eagerness to learn and contribute to Cloud transformation projects. Prior exposure to Cloud data storage and warehousing concepts (e.g., GCP BigQuery, Azure Synapse, AWS Redshift) is a significant plus.
• Tools: Experience with requirements management tools, process mapping tools, and BI/reporting tools (e.g., Power BI, Looker) is beneficial.
• Education: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Business Administration, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Mindset: A proactive, self-starter with a strong learning agility, a collaborative spirit, and a genuine eagerness to work and learn in a dynamic, international environment.

Competencies:

• Problem analysis
• Written communication
• Verbal communication
• Understanding business processes
• Interpersonal sensitivity
• Working in a team

Explore the perks of working with us

• Plenty of room for personal development and great career opportunities
• An excellent pension scheme and 8% holiday pay
• Depending on your position: an end-of-year bonus or a variable income
• A profit sharing scheme

What do we offer

• A challenging role at a unique employer in the Netherlands
• Plenty of room for personal development and wonderful career opportunities
• A good pension scheme and 8% holiday pay
• An end of the year bonus of 8,33%
• 25 days of paid holiday and 5 extra days off
• Great discounts on airline tickets (if you have been in service for at least 6 months)
• A sustainable transport policy, which allows you, among other things, to use all public transport for your commute within the Netherlands, free of charge
• Discount on your health insurance
• A personal budget for sustainable employability

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