Main Purpose:

We require an accomplished business analyst with in-depth experience of completing detailed business process analysis and requirement gathering to enable the delivery of complex software development projects.
Within this role, the candidate will be responsible for understanding and verifying cases for change, completing business process analysis, and defining business requirements, functional requirements and design.

This will be driven across multiple projects within the trading division. The candidate will manage relationships and expectations with business collaborators and sponsors and support development and test teams throughout the entire delivery lifecycle.

The candidate will be expected to apply structured analysis and problem solving in areas they maybe not have business domain knowledge and experience.

Knowledge Skills and Abilities, Key Responsibilities:

• Demonstrable ability to act as a liaison between the business and highly technical developers located in remote offices, translating business concepts into requirements that are implementable
• Expected to have 8+ years’ experience of business analysis specifically in implementation and support of Oracle ERP (preferably for a commodity trading)
• Broad knowledge of commodities trading, ideally for physical commodities
• Expected to have domain knowledge in all of the following areas:
  • Order to Cash for trading organisation
  • Procure to pay for trading organisation
  • Record to Report for trading organization
  • Accounting and GL management
• Expected to have domain knowledge in some of the following areas:
  • Physical commodity trading terms & lifecycle
  • Expense management
• Experience of implementing and supporting following systems on Cloud (and preferably On-premise experience as well):
  • Oracle Financials Cloud
  • Oracle Accounting Hub (On-premise is a Must)
  • Oracle Procurement
  • Oracle Supply-Chain
  • Oracle Order Management
  • Oracle Contracts
  • Reporting (OTBI, BO, QlikView, FAW)
  • FBDI, ADFDi to support data migration
• Understanding of Oracle product development cycle, Oracle security.
• Understanding of principals of cloud-based platforms including SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS
• Minimum of 2 years of experience working with outsourced vendor partners is BIG plus.
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Physics or Mathematics is required.
• Understanding of Oracle product development cycle, Oracle security, Oracle Instance strategy, On-premise ERP, Oracle Cloud ERP is a MUST.
• Understanding of Commodities, Logistics, Financing, Accounting or Derivatives is a BIG plus.
• Strong oral and written communications with strong inter-personal skills to collaborate with vendor teams and global IT owners with attention to micro level details.
• Able to support quality assurance test cycles and support testing, defect resolution processes.
• Strong organizational change skills, ability to manage several projects simultaneously while working under pressure to meet deadlines.
• Experience of a variety of software development methodologies (e.g. continuous integration, iterative development) and software product implementation, upgrade, maintenance and support. Experience of defining requirements for interfaces between application components or systems and support in the development and testing thereof
• Able to self-manage and regularly prioritise and plan activities across multiple project work streams
• Demonstrate good knowledge of business processes and associated technology
• Work effectively within an inclusive team and actively support the development of individuals and teams, both formally and informally
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Key Responsibilities:

• Own the BAU delivery and product support for Oracle On-premise and Oracle Cloud ERP applications.
• Develop and maintain working relationships with business collaborators
• Coordinate all the finance related configuration and design changes going into production through CAB review and approval process
• Analyse the functional features in the quarterly patch cycles and product support for Oracle On-premise and Oracle Cloud ERP applications.
• Responsible for clearly articulating target business processes and the business requirements and functional design to enable change.
• Support development teams to ensure a solution meets its business requirements.
• Support quality assurance teams to ensure a solution meets its business requirements.
• Support organizational change and training teams to prepare business collaborator for process and functional change.
• Provide third line support for production issues.
• Coach and Mentor the vendor functional team members for the assigned work stream.

Key Relationships and Department Overview:

• Robust collaborative relationship with business collaborators, architects, developers, project managers, implementation/outsourcing partners & other business analysts
• Testing and training groups

Department Overview

Trafigura is committed to building and maintaining world class IT applications and infrastructure.   The Trading IT group directly supports the Trafigura trading business, and this business has started a far-reaching programme to enhance and improve its trading applications using an innovative architecture to support business growth across the full range of business lines and geographies, and to enable the sharing of systems across different businesses.

These programmes are aimed at delivering functional capabilities, enhancements and technical infrastructure upgrades to enable continued business growth and enhanced profitability for the firm.