Lead Business Analyst

Job Description

Lead Business Analyst - Middle Office

Location: Mumbai, India

Department: IT Middle Office

Reporting To: Regional Lead Business Analyst for India

About the Client: PSS has been mandated to hire a Lead Business Analyst - Middle Office for one of the largest global physical commodities trading groups.

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 optimise 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

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