Business Systems Analyst

PlatformX Communications; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading telecommunications provider in Manchester is seeking a Business Systems Analyst to enhance customer-facing platforms and support project success. The ideal candidate will collaborate across teams to analyze requirements and develop solutions. This full-time role offers flexible working arrangements, competitive benefits, and the opportunity to thrive in a dynamic workplace that values diversity.

Benefits

Flex30 leave scheme

Hybrid working policy

Private healthcare

Pension scheme

Bonus opportunities

Discounts on shopping and leisure

Qualifications

• Proven experience in IT systems for crucial changes.
• Experience in a business analyst role.
• Strong understanding of investigation techniques.

Responsibilities

• Plan business analysis activities and manage communications.
• Conduct requirement gathering sessions with users.
• Design solutions and user stories with technical teams.

Skills

Stakeholder analysis

Requirement engineering

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Tools

Jira

Trello

Job description

Business Systems Analyst – PXC

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We are PXC, the UK’s largest provider of wholesale connectivity. Our vision is to be the UK’s #1 wholesale platform, a one-stop shop provider of connectivity, voice, cloud and security underpinned by the UK’s most robust, secure, resilient and reliable network. Born from the combination of Virtual1 and TalkTalk’s wholesale services and national network business, we operate across our 3 core sites (Salford, London and Skopje, North Macedonia).

Our mission is clear, to be the UK’s best company to work for and best to work with. We believe this success is driven by the power of our employees. We empower our people to become true experts in their field who embody our values every day: we care; we challenge; we commit.

About The Team

The Business Systems Analyst team comprises experienced analysts who collaborate with stakeholders to refine business requirements into clear user stories for development and QA teams. Their primary focus is to enhance our customer‑facing 1Portal by managing new products, integrating with Salesforce, and implementing innovative solutions to deliver a seamless user experience.

About Your Role

PlatformX Communications powers the UK's Business Connectivity market. We offer flexible and user-friendly cloud and connectivity solutions to partners, with a goal to become the fastest growing provider of high bandwidths (1Gb+) and the top Connectivity Platform in the market in the next 5 years. As a Business Systems Analyst, you will play a critical role in driving the success of our projects. You will collaborate with cross‑functional teams, stakeholders and vendors to gather and analyse business requirements and processes. You will be working across a range of systems from our award‑winning 1Portal to our CRM system as well as web services and APIs. The ideal candidate will be a self‑starter and can demonstrate attention to detail, thorough planning, and strong analytical skills.

Key Responsibilities

• Plan business analysis activities and manage communications to stakeholders.
• Conduct functional/technical requirement gathering sessions with business users.
• Work closely with technical teams to design solutions and user stories.
• Analyse, validate and document existing business processes and map functional and non‑functional requirements onto the to‑be process model in order to demonstrate the impact of change.
• Be comfortable in reading web service documentation and translate this into technical specifications for the development teams.
• Use established tools and techniques to identify and document current and future state business processes.
• Prepare IT & business requirements, functional specifications, user stories, review business processes and make recommendations.
• Produce supporting documents for users and training.
• Work with internal and offshore development team.
• Be involved with the full software development lifecycle through scope, plan, build, test and deployment.

What Will Make You Successful in this Role

• Proven experience of working on IT systems to help make crucial changes and updates to systems.
• Experience within a business analyst position.
• Strong understanding of investigation techniques, stakeholder analysis and management, strategy analysis and requirement engineering.
• Knowledge of using a variety of modelling & analysis tools, methods and standards (e.g. Business process modelling, use cases, writing User stories, root cause analysis).
• Experience in full project lifecycle (Agile and/or Waterfall methodologies).
• Scope control and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to interact with all levels within the organisation.
• Experience of using software delivery tools such as Jira/Trello.
• Good interpersonal and team skills.
• Extremely proactive, highly organized, with proven ability to manage multiple tasks.

How we look after our employees

• Our brand new “PXC Flex” benefit launched in January 2025, which includes Flex30, an additional 30 hours of leave every year for you to use how you wish.
• Our hybrid working policy offers you flexibility to work from home as well as connecting with your colleagues in one of our accessible and collaborative office spaces.
• A starting holiday allowance of 25 days holiday and up to 10 extra days leave via our holiday purchase scheme.
• Free private healthcare for all employees, competitive pension scheme and the opportunity to earn bonus.
• Free broadband for all employees plus gifts for major life events such as marriages and births.
• Flexible salary sacrifice scheme including dental, gym plus a huge range of shopping and leisure discounts so you can save even more cash.
• A range of inclusive employee networks to help integrate employees into life at PXC.

Seniority level: Associate

Employment type: Full‑time

Job function: Information Technology

Industries: Telecommunications

Location: Manchester Area, United Kingdom

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At PXC, we know that diversity means success and innovation. We want our workplace to reflect the communities and customers we serve. Being inclusive is part of our DNA; we are all 100% human, and we create a culture where you can truly be yourself.