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Associate Business Analyst

IBM

IBM

IT, Sales & Business Development
Antwerp, Belgium
Posted on Mar 27, 2026
Introduction

A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You’ll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you’ll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences.

In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

Your role and responsibilities

As a Business Analyst, you will act as an interpreter between the worlds of IT and business, working with clients to gather requirements and ensure solutions meet their needs.

You will utilize agile principles and methodologies to deliver high-quality solutions. Your primary responsibilities will include:

• Gather Client Requirements: Work with clients to gather requirements using various techniques, including agile principles and methodologies, to ensure accurate translation into solutions.

• Interface with Development Team: Collaborate with the development team to ensure requirements are being met and provide ongoing support throughout the development process.

• Manage User Acceptance Testing: Coordinate and manage user acceptance testing to validate solutions meet client needs and expectations.

• Communicate Solution Details: Develop training materials and technical documentation to educate clients and user communities on solution functionality and benefits.

• Track Solution Progress: Monitor and report on solution progress through development, ensuring timely delivery and meeting client expectations.

Required education
Associate's Degree/College Diploma
Required technical and professional expertise

• Agile Principles Application: Exposure to agile principles and methodologies, with the ability to apply them in gathering client requirements and delivering high-quality solutions.

• Business Requirements Gathering: Experience working with clients to gather requirements using various techniques, ensuring accurate translation into solutions.

• IT and Business Interface: Exposure to interfacing between IT and business, collaborating with development teams to ensure requirements are being met.

• Solution Documentation: Experience creating training materials and technical documentation to educate clients and user communities on solution functionality and benefits.

• User Acceptance Testing: Exposure to managing user acceptance testing, validating solutions meet client needs and expectations.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Basic Financial Concepts: Exposure to applying basic financial concepts, understanding their relevance in business analysis and solution development.

• Business Plan Knowledge: Familiarity with business plans, enabling informed decision-making and effective communication with clients.

• Database Management: Exposure to database management principles, supporting the design and implementation of data-driven solutions.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

IBM wants you to bring your whole self to work and for you this might mean the ability to work flexibly. If you are interested in a flexible working pattern, please talk to our recruitment team to find out if this is possible in the current working environment.