Business Analyst - Invoicing Domain

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 understand and verifying business cases for change, completing business process analysis, and defining business and functional requirements. This will be executed across multiple projects within the trading division (Must have - Physical Trading or Derivative commodity trading). The candidate will manage relationships and expectations with business stakeholders and sponsors and support development and test teams throughout the entire delivery lifecycle.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

- Proven ability to act as a bridge between the business and development team located in other offices, translating business concepts into requirements that are implementable

- Expected to have 7+ years- experience of business analysis in a front office specifically Pricing Extensive knowledge and experience in some or all of the following areas:

Commodity trading (Must have - Physical Trading or Derivative commodity trading)

Trade Management (either Physical commodity or Derivative commodity)

Physical Commodity Pricing (Must have)

Physical Commodity Valuations

Logistics

Invoicing

Product knowledge of Alfresco and Thunderhead will be additional benefit

- Demonstrable the ability to drive business process changes and challenging current business practices

- Experience of a variety of software development methodologies (e.g. continuous integration, iterative development, Agile)

- Experience of creating and maintaining Physical pricing process, business requirements, functional design and reports.

- Experience in implementation/roll out of IT solution across multiple geographies.

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills

- 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

- Responsible for clearly articulating target business processes and the business requirements and functional design to enable change (particularly for Physical commodity pricing).

- Prepare the requirement documents - BRDs and FSDs (particularly for Physical commodity pricing).

- Work with the functional architecture team to determine the design of a solution, including screen design & usability to optimise business processes

- Collaborate with cross functional teams in process (e.g. Logistics, Trade Capture, Valuations etc.) that impact Pricing to ensure integrated design.

- 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 focus

- Team worker, mentorship of junior analysts

- Good communicator & engaging

- Ability to make decisions & thrive in a fast paced environment

Reporting Structure

- Reporting into Regional Lead BA