Senior Business Analyst - Energy PSS07740

About the Client: PSS has been mandated to hire a Senior Business Analyst - Energy for a leading Global Physical Commodities Trading Group is looking for an accomplished Senior Business Analyst an 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.

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
• Ability to work independently as well as lead a team of business analysts and comfortable with managing a busy workload of changing priorities
• It’s a plus to have experience working in complex project environment for delivery of IT programme
• 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 Trade Lifecycle
• Physical commodity trading terms & lifecyle
• Commodities transport, blending, quality analysis and storage
• Physical commodity Back office operations
• Accounting
• Treasury
• Trade Finance
• Bank Account Management
• Additional experience in migrations and interfaces with other systems is a big plus
• 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)
• 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
  
  
  

• 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.