Company description

Inter IKEA Group brings together three core businesses: Retail Concept, Range and Supply. Together, we work constantly to improve the IKEA home furnishing offer and make it more accessible for the many people.

IKEA Supply is responsible for securing that the product offer is produced and delivered to our customers. We lead the supply agenda across many functions and work together with all business areas, different business units, but also retail markets to secure customer availability in all markets and sales channels at lowest total cost.

IKEA Food Supply AG ensures the global purchase of the complete IKEA food range, the warehousing and distribution in, to and from our main distribution centers and the sale of IKEA Food range to all IKEA stores worldwide.

The Capability Area Wholesale Finance ensures that our global financial processes within the wholesale business (furniture & food) are supported by information technology today and in the future. We are now looking to grow our Capability Area Wholesale Finance even more!

Job description

IKEA are on the journey to transform our digital capabilities, bringing core business processes, people, data & technology together as an enabler for IKEA to become an even better home furnishing company in the future. On this journey we are doing some amazing things; therefore, we need some amazing people - this position is not an exception.

As Business Analyst you will be in close collaboration with relevant stakeholders, clarifying business needs, requirements management and solution evaluation, to deliver business value in a fast-growing business (initiatives and releases).

This means that you will - for one or more solutions:

• Identify potential improvements: to elicit, analyse, challenge and document all business needs.
• Identify the business consequences and risks with solution alternatives for process, organisation, tools and information.
• Assure quality and traceability of stakeholder needs and business requirements and support the evaluation of solution alternatives.
• Communicate, clarify and safeguard evolving business needs along a project or solution life cycle.
• Clarify business needs during definition and validation of high level & low-level design in cooperation with architects and developers.
• Review test plans and test cases to ensure compliance to the requirements. Support the planning and execution of testing activities.
• Responsible for securing and handing over requirement related artefacts to development and line organisation.

Qualification

We offer you a challenging, exciting and fun global role where you will be an active and important part in driving the future of Business Analysis within the Capability Area Wholesale Finance.

• We believe you have extensive knowledge and experience in business analysis and modelling, requirements management process according to BABOK.
• You have excellent analytical skills. You are able to see the big picture as well as the details, find patterns and to structure complex information.
• You are eager to work in a global environment, to learn and to know -Why-.
• You have knowledge and experience working within large-scale ERP solution, Infor M3, within the Finance domain.
• We believe you have knowledge of test methods and tools with focus on acceptance testing as well as understanding of unit, system and integration testing.
• You have excellent listening skills, able to interact with stakeholders - understand them and their needs as well as making them understand you.
• You act as role model for IKEA values and you have strong communication skills and the ability to build trustful relationships.

You are able to work in an environment where the pre-conditions may change from one day to another and where we need to deliver these changes within short notice.

We also believe you have: 

• University degree or equivalent work experience
• Experience in working with global and/or remote teams
• NOTE for Switzerland: Due to long permit process we prefer candidates with valid Swiss work permit or EU/EFTA citizenship

More Information

Does this sound like your next challenge?

This position will be located in either Pratteln, Switzerland. We look forward to receiving your application in English by January 4th, 2026..

Please note that we will be interviewing continuously, which means that we may close the application process earlier than stated if we find the right candidate.

For more information about the position, please contact recruiting manager Henrietta Gygli-Aulin (henrietta.gygli-aulin@inter.ikea.com), Digital Product Area Manager.

If you have questions about the recruitment process, please contact Daniel Ploianu, People & Culture Generalist at daniel.ploianu@inter.ikea.com