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 business cases for change, completing business process analysis, and defining business requirements, functional requirements and design.

This will be executed across multiple projects within the trading division. The candidate will manage relationships and expectations with business stakeholders 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:

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Proven ability to act as a bridge between the business and highly technical developers located in remote offices, translating business concepts into requirements that are implementable
• Expected to have 7+ years’ experience of requirements analysis in a commercial environment
• Expected to be a domain expert in the following areas:
  • Physical commodity trading terms & lifecycle
  • Commodities transport, blending, quality analysis and storage
  • PnL impacts of logistics activities
• Demonstrable ability to drive business process changes - challenging current business practices, working with key business process personnel
• Experience of a variety of software development methodologies (e.g. continuous integration, iterative development)
• Experience of defining requirements for interfaces between application components or systems and support in the development and testing thereof
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Able to self-manage and regularly prioritise and plan activities across multiple project work streams
• Strong academic background – excellent degree from a top tier university is required in a subject that demonstrates the need for logical thinking, precise understanding and clear articulation

Key Responsibilities      

• Develop and maintain working relationships with business stakeholders
• Primary responsibility is the determination & clear articulation of business requirements for the physical commodity trading and logistics area
• Responsible for clearly articulating target business processes and the business requirements and functional design to enable change.
• Work with the functional architecture team to determine the design of a solution, including screen design & usability to optimise business processes
• Detail story elaboration to enable the system development
• Support development teams to ensure a solution meets its business requirements.
• Support quality assurance teams to ensure a solution meets its business requirements.
• Support change management and training teams to prepare business stakeholder for process and functional change.
• Provide third line support for production issues.

Key Attitudes / Competencies:

• Delivery focused
• Develop and maintain close relationships with business and IT stakeholders
• Team worker, mentoring of junior IT Business Analysts
• Good communicator, engaging and able to work with offshore teams across various time zones
• Ability to make decisions & thrive in a fast-paced environment

Key Relationships and Department Overview:

Key Relationships          

• Robust collaborative relationship with architects, developers, project managers & other business analysts
• Testing and training groups

Reporting Structure