IT Business Analyst

This role is primarily Business Analysis: sitting with plant and corporate stakeholders, extracting real requirements from business asks, and translating them into functional specifications and system designs. Development work — PHP/Laravel and PostgreSQL — is a secondary but hands-on responsibility: you will expected to build web-based applications using PHP/Laravel and PostgreSQL.

You'll be expected to ask the right questions, push back on vague or ambiguous asks, and translate operational reality (short shelf-life food manufacturing and retail stores/restaurants, multi-plant, mixed SAP/non-SAP landscape) into working software.

Key Responsibilities

Business Analysis (Primary)

• Lead requirements-gathering sessions with business stakeholders across departments and business units (production, inventory, sales, finance).

• Translate business needs into clear functional specifications, user stories, and process/data flow documentation.

• Identify gaps between what stakeholders ask for and what the system landscape can actually support and propose realistic alternatives.

• Manage your own requirements-to-delivery workstream end-to-end: intake, prioritization, design, build coordination, UAT, sign-off.

Development (Secondary, Hands-On)

• Write production-quality PHP code for the defined business requirements, ensuring the build matches design intent.

• Contribute to schema design decisions for new modules or extensions.

• Support existing web-based applications.

Power Platform (Not required)

• Experience in this domain is not required but will be an advantage.

• Build or extend Power Apps canvas apps and Power Automate flows.

• Work within SharePoint-backed data structures used by the existing Power Platform stack.

Delivery & Documentation

• Maintain technical and functional documentation.

• Communicate progress and trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders.

• The candidate should be able to effectively communicate with non-technical stakeholders and key business users.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, Business, or related field (or equivalent hands-on experience).

• A minimum of 3 years hands-on PHP development and a minimum of 2 years performing business analysis activities (requirements gathering, functional specification, stakeholder translation) - these can be concurrent (hybrid role) or accumulated across separate roles.

• Proven experience gathering requirements directly from business stakeholders and converting them into specs, process flows, or system designs.

• Proficient in PHP, preferably with the Laravel framework.

• Working knowledge of PostgreSQL (schema design, queries)

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Comfortable communicating with non-technical stakeholders at varying levels of the organization.

• Version control experience (Git).

• Willing to work in Mandaluyong City (Full Onsite)

Advantageous / Nice-to-Have

• Project management experience - for managing your own analysis-to-delivery lifecycle.

• Power Apps / Power Automate development experience.

• Prior exposure to SAP or any ERP system (MM, IM, PP, SD concepts) — you don't need to be a SAP consultant, but understanding why ERPs enforce the constraints they do is a major plus.

• Experience in manufacturing, FMCG, or food industry environments.

• REST API integration experience.

• SharePoint as a data backend.