Freelance Business Analyst

Location: Brussels, Belgium
Contract: Freelance
Start date: January 2027
Working pattern: Hybrid – 50% on site, 50% from home

About the role

Our client is looking for a hands-on Freelance Business Analyst in Brussels to help evolve and simplify its business processes and IT landscape. The organisation uses SAP as its core system, alongside a range of CRM and other business applications, and is exploring a possible future migration to SAP S/4HANA. This role sits right between Business and IT and helps shape how those systems and processes work together.

The successful candidate will analyse business needs and translate them into clear IT requirements, then follow requirements and smaller IT initiatives from analysis through to implementation. A large part of the role is investigative. You will work independently across different ERP, CRM and business systems, work out how they operate today and identify how they can be improved, simplified or better connected.

This is not a traditional, documentation-only BA role. Our client is looking for someone curious and proactive who challenges existing processes, asks the right questions and brings ideas of their own, including opportunities around automation, AI, Cloud and wider digitalisation. SAP experience is an advantage, but a broad interest in business systems and a willingness to learn unfamiliar technologies matter more. The assignment starts in January 2027 on a hybrid basis, split evenly between the Brussels office and home.

Main responsibilities

• Analyse business needs and translate them into clear IT requirements
• Act as the bridge between Business and IT, making sure both sides understand each other
• Help simplify and improve existing business processes
• Work independently across ERP, CRM and other business systems, investigating how they work and how they can be improved
• Follow up requirements and smaller IT initiatives from analysis through to implementation
• Identify opportunities around automation, AI, Cloud and digitalisation
• Challenge existing ways of working and suggest new, practical or out-of-the-box solutions
• Support the organisation’s thinking around a potential future move to SAP S/4HANA

Requirements

Essential

• Experience as a Business Analyst, ideally in an ERP environment
• Comfortable communicating with both business and IT stakeholders
• Curious and analytical, and confident working things out independently
• A hands-on mentality and willingness to get involved beyond traditional BA activities
• Comfortable learning and experimenting with unfamiliar systems and technologies
• A proactive approach – someone who brings ideas and asks the right questions
• Able to work on site in Brussels 50% of the time

Desirable

• SAP experience
• Exposure to SAP S/4HANA or ERP migration projects
• Experience with CRM systems or other business applications
• Interest in automation, AI, Cloud or digitalisation initiatives

The offer

• Freelance assignment based in Brussels, Belgium
• Start in January 2027
• Hybrid working – 50% on site, 50% from home
• A broad, hands-on role across ERP, CRM and business systems
• Room to influence process simplification and future-facing initiatives, including a possible S/4HANA journey
• Duration and rate to be confirmed with candidates

This Freelance Business Analyst role in Brussels suits someone who enjoys digging into systems, connecting Business and IT, and finding smarter ways of working. If you are hands-on, curious and keen to help shape an evolving ERP and application landscape, this assignment offers real scope to contribute. Apply below.