Business Analyst - Process & Automation

About this role

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

• 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).
• Identify gaps in processes, design improved systems, and implement them using Python/pandas/Excel or equivalent tools.
• Build and maintain automation for recurring analysis and reporting.
• Review the team's Excel work — quotations, formulas, models — as a filter before it reaches the owner: check for errors, structure and logic.
• 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