Functional Analyst

Company DescriptionEurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic and labelling is accurate.The Eurofins network of companies believes that it is a global leader in food, environment, pharmaceutical and cosmetic product testing and in discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and AgroScience contract research services. It is also one of the market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, and in the support of clinical studies, as well as in biopharma contract development and manufacturing. It also has a rapidly developing presence in highly specialised and molecular clinical diagnostic testing and in-vitro diagnostic products. In over 37 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to over 65,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of more than 950 laboratories in over 1,000 companies across 59 countries. Eurofins companies offer a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods to evaluate the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability and purity of biological substances and products. In 2024, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR 6.95 billion; and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years. Job DescriptionJob DescriptionWORKING LOCATION: CoimbatoreWork Experience: 3- 7yearsOVERALL OBJECTIVES:As a Business Analyst you will play a key role across the Qualitype/eLIMS Forensics programme, supporting the delivery of Business Requirements across Forensics Case Management, DNA LIMS and Expert Reporting workstreams for an active user base of approximately 300 users. This role within a complex, regulated transformation programme and will work closely with operational SMEs, programme leadership and distributed IT delivery teams across the UK, Europe, nearshore and offshore locations. The role is focused on full BR support across the programme lifecycle: requirements elicitation, process mapping, requirement decomposition, traceability, change control, testing readiness and business acceptance support. You will help translate forensic operational needs into clear, structured Business Requirements and User Requirements that can be taken forward by solution architects, functional analysts and development teams. The role requires strong collaboration with both business and IT teams to ensure requirements are high quality, aligned to process, and sequenced ahead of development cycles. Main responsibilities: Lead and support structured requirements gathering across multiple programme workstreams, ensuring clarity of scope, ownership, version control and traceability. Work with operational SMEs, process owners and IT teams to define, refine and maintain Business Requirements and supporting User Requirements in line with agreed standards. Develop and maintain process maps, requirement packs and supporting documentation to ensure requirements are grounded in real end-to-end business processes and regulatory needs. Challenge, clarify and decompose complex requirements, including identifying variants by workflow, lab, geography or customer where required. Partner with solution architects, functional analysts, developers and testers to ensure requirements are understood, feasible, sequenced correctly and translated into deliverable outcomes. Support requirement arbitration, prioritisation and change control, including identifying duplication, overlap, dependencies and out-of-scope items. Work ahead of the development cycle to keep the backlog prepared, support sprint readiness and reduce delivery risk across concurrent workstreams. Contribute to test readiness by helping define acceptance criteria, supporting UAT preparation and ensuring business requirements can be validated effectively. Facilitate workshops, including face-to-face sessions where needed, to build alignment across operational and IT stakeholders and drive timely decisions. Ensure requirements and process outputs reflect the needs of a regulated forensic environment, including quality, security, compliance and accreditation considerations. Act as a key interface between the programmes business users and the wider IT Solutions organisation, supporting coherent delivery across UK, European and delivery centre teams.Specific skills required:Technical knowledge: Strong and proven background in Information Technology.Experience as a Technical Writer/Business Analyst/Functional AnalystExperience in writing Functional Specification DocumentsExperience in creating Business process models Com