Lead Business Analyst - Trading Platforms

Lead Business Analyst

Responsibilities

• Capture business problems, value drivers, and functional/non-functional requirements and translate them into implementable functionality
• Review feasibility, risks, opportunities, and business impact across initiatives and projects
• Model processes, data flows, and technology to pinpoint current value, issues, and opportunities to improve
• Create, maintain, and update requirements documentation to keep solution alignment throughout the project lifecycle
• Ensure requirement traceability from business needs through testing, scope changes, and the delivered solution
• Engage with software suppliers, designers, and developers to understand constraints and ensure business requirements are covered
• Configure and document software and operational processes using agreed standards and tools
• Set acceptance criteria and validate solution fit through coordinated testing activities
• Develop and present business cases to demonstrate value and obtain approval, funding, and prioritization
• Initiate, plan, execute, monitor, and control Business Analysis activities within agreed cost, time, and quality parameters
• Manage stakeholders and lead large design sessions to drive alignment
• Support and guide teams through Business Analysis activities across projects

Requirements

• Demonstrated 10-15 years of Business Analysis experience in the Trading and Supply domain
• Relevant supply chain knowledge supporting Trading and Supply operations
• Strong expertise in requirement gathering and authoring BRD and FRD documentation
• Proven capability in stakeholder management and facilitating large design sessions
• Experience operating in Agile environments with Agile delivery, frameworks, and tools
• Ability to teach and align stakeholders, including Product Owners and business partners, on Agile ways of working
• Sound understanding of systems engineering concepts, data/process analysis and modeling, and products & solutions
• Competency with risk management and AI solutioning in trading platform contexts

Nice to have

• Agile certifications or trainings
• CBAP (Certified Business Analysis Professional) or PMI-PBA certification
• Lean Practitioner training and experience