Business Applications Advisor

Salary: £30,000–£35,000 Location: Hybrid – Some days based in our Nurseries or Head office in Long Eaton Join Storal as we continue an exciting period of growth and digital transformation. Following the rollout of several new systems in 2025—including Famly, HubSpot, Sage Intacct, Deel, and Yoobic—we’re looking for a proactive and organised Business Applications Advisor to help us embed these platforms, support our users, and drive continuous improvement across the business. You’ll play a key role in ensuring our applications run smoothly day-to-day, while helping transition ownership from the transformation team. If you enjoy variety, learning new systems, and working across multiple teams, this role offers all of that—every day will be different. What you’ll do Act as a key contact for end-users, providing support, guidance, and training. Become a subject-matter expert in our core business applications. Triage support cases, coordinating with business teams and system owners. Help plan and deliver new system releases, features, and process improvements. Run small projects or work packages, supporting planning and coordination. Facilitate workshops with stakeholders to define and improve business processes. Identify opportunities to enhance operational efficiency using technology. Create clear communication and training materials when needed. Support the Business Applications Manager with Design Authority activities and roadmap/backlog management. What you’ll bring Experience using platforms such as HubSpot, Deel, Sage Intacct, Famly, or similar business applications. Understanding of HR, Finance, and Operations processes—ideally within a nursery, care, education, or similarly dispersed, deskless-workforce environment. Comfortable working across business and technical teams, including IT. Strong stakeholder management, communication, and training skills. Exposure to system implementation or transformation projects. Key attributes Highly organised, detail-focused, and reliable. Proactive problem solver with a continuous-improvement mindset. Hands-on approach, with the ability to balance multiple priorities. Collaborative, approachable, and committed to delivering great service. Storal is the highest of standards when it coming to safeguarding, the welfare of children and creating a work environment the encourages feedback-discussion-resilience. We take our role in the safety of children, our families and our team extremely seriously. As governed by the EYFS, we have a designated safeguarding lead in each setting and all staff (and volunteers) complete a through compliance checks prior to employment including employment references & DBS.