Senior Consultant - Business Analysis

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 8+ years experience of business analysis in a commercial environment

- Extensive knowledge and experience in some or all of the following areas:

- Physical trade valuation (preferably metals and energy trading)

- Position management including hedging (commodities, FX and rates)

- Profit & loss including mark-to-market of physical business

- End-to-end commodity trade lifecycle

- Demonstrate the ability to drive business process changes and challenge current business practices

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

- 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.

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

- 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.