Lead Business Analyst (Middle Office)

Job Description

About the Role:

• Within this role, the candidate will be responsible for requirement gathering to enable the delivery of complex software development projects.
• 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 where they may not have business domain knowledge and experience.

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 5+ years experience in 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.
• P&L 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 – An 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 optimize business processes.
• Detailed 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 stakeholders 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.