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