ERP IT Business Systems Analyst / ERP IT Applications Analyst

Job Title: ERP IT Business Systems Analyst / ERP IT Applications Analyst
Location: Darlington, United Kingdom
Work Model: 100% Onsite

About the Role:

We are looking for an experienced ERP IT Business Systems Analyst / ERP IT Applications Analyst to join a leading manufacturing organization in Darlington. This long-term onsite role is ideal for a professional with strong Oracle ERP functional expertise who enjoys working closely with business stakeholders, IT teams, and technology partners to deliver robust enterprise solutions.

You will play a key role in analyzing business requirements, configuring ERP applications, supporting implementations, and driving continuous improvements across business-critical systems within a manufacturing environment.

Job Skills & Requirements:

• Solution Design – Create and define solution designs using industry standards, tools, instrumentation, and measurement techniques. Develop diagrams, models, and documentation that support buildability, business, technical, security, governance, and compliance requirements.

• Solution Functional Fit Analysis – Analyze systems by decomposing them into component parts to evaluate how effectively they are designed, configured, and integrated to meet business, technical, security, governance, and compliance requirements.

• Solution Modeling – Create solution models, diagrams, and technical documentation using industry-standard tools, version control, and automation practices.

• Solution Configuration – Configure, build, and test IT solutions using industry standards, version control, and automation tools to ensure quality, security, and compliance.

• Solution Validation Testing – Validate solution changes using Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) best practices, testing standards, tools, and metrics to ensure solutions meet functional and business requirements.

• Documentation – Create and maintain comprehensive solution design documents, functional specifications, test cases, test scripts, and supporting documentation.

• Customer Focus – Build strong stakeholder relationships and deliver customer-centric solutions.

• Managing Complexity – Analyze complex and sometimes conflicting information to identify practical and effective solutions.

• Global Perspective – Apply a broad business and technology perspective when evaluating solutions and making decisions.

• Process Optimization – Continuously improve work processes by identifying efficient and effective ways to deliver solutions.

Personal Skills:

• Positive, proactive, and results-driven attitude with a strong commitment to delivering business value.

• Strong sense of ownership and accountability for assigned projects and deliverables.

• Proven ability to collaborate effectively with senior leaders, business stakeholders, developers, testers, database administrators, architects, and cross-functional IT teams.

• Excellent problem-solving skills with the ability to remove obstacles and deliver projects within agreed timelines.

• Willingness to work full-time onsite at the manufacturing facility.

Key Responsibilities:

• Analyze and evaluate ERP application functionality and recommend improvements to maximize the use of standard application capabilities and enhance business processes.

• Determine, document, configure, and validate optimal ERP application setups to meet functional and business requirements.

• Maintain expertise in Oracle ERP functionality, enhancements, and industry best practices, providing recommendations for continuous improvement.

• Perform functional fit-gap analysis and recommend solutions to address business requirements.

• Collaborate with software vendors and support partners to resolve application issues and improve system capabilities.

• Work closely with process owners, business analysts, systems analysts, solution architects, and technical teams to gather, document, and validate functional and technical requirements.

• Serve as the functional Subject Matter Expert (SME) for assigned ERP applications, supporting projects, enhancements, and ongoing application support.

• Create and manage functional specifications that guide application development, configuration, testing, and implementation.

• Support ERP implementations, upgrades, enhancements, testing, and post-deployment activities.

• Ensure all solutions comply with organizational standards for security, governance, compliance, and the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

Recruitment Partner: Sperton

This position is exclusively managed by Sperton, a global talent partner connecting high-performing professionals with leading organizations worldwide.