Business Analyst - Process & Automation

This role is for one of Weekday’s clients

Salary range: Rs 500000 - Rs 1500000 (ie INR 5 - 15 LPA)

Min Experience: 3+ years

• Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
• JobType: full-time
• ROLE SUMMARY:

Work directly with the owner to map business processes, find and fix gaps, design improved systems, and execute them in software (Python / pandas / Excel). Act as the quality filter between the owner and the team — reviewing all incoming analytical work (quotations, Excel models, formulas) for errors, structure and logic.

Requirements

• KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
• 1. Understand business processes by talking to people across departments and asking the right questions; map current process flows (production planning, forecasting, costing, and similar areas).
• 2. Identify gaps in processes, design improved systems, and implement them using Python/pandas/Excel or equivalent tools.
• 3. Build and maintain automation for recurring analysis and reporting.
• 4. Review the team's Excel work — quotations, formulas, models — as a filter before it reaches the owner: check for errors, structure and logic.
• 5. Translate the owner's requirements into working, tested solutions and execute end to end.
• MUST-HAVE SKILLS:
• - Strong Excel: formulas, structuring workbooks, auditing other people's sheets - Python with pandas (or equivalent data tools — must be able to deliver the same outcomes) - Analytical, structured, logical mind with strong error-catching ability — accuracy is critical in this role - Good communication skills — comfortable talking to people to extract process knowledge; personable and easy to talk to, not a silent back-office profile
• GOOD TO HAVE:
• - Business/commercial awareness (costing, quotations, planning) - Manufacturing or SME exposure - Graduate in engineering / statistics / commerce with a strong quantitative bent
• Must-have skills
• Python, Business Process Mapping
• Good-to-have skills
• Computer Science, engineer