Deputy Lead - IT Business Analyst - Commodity Logistics Domain

Deputy Lead - IT Business Analyst - Logistics with MNC

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 Relationships:

- Robust collaborative relationship with architects, developers, project managers & other business analysts

- Testing and training groups

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