About the Role
We are seeking an experienced Senior Business Analyst to join our growing team in Dubai. In this role, you will serve as a vital link between commodity trading users and our product and engineering team in Dubai. Your primary responsibility will be to translate real trading workflows into clear requirements, guiding them through the stages of design, testing, and client delivery. This is a hands-on position that requires a deep understanding of commodity trading processes and software development. You will contribute to the product roadmap and support client implementations.
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Key Responsibilities
- Lead workshops with traders, trade assistants, trade control, operations, risk, and IT stakeholders.
- Document current-state and target-state processes, business requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
- Perform fit-gap assessments and recommend standard product capabilities wherever appropriate.
- Translate trading requirements into clear functional specifications for engineering.
- Maintain the prioritized backlog with product and engineering leads.
- Define the canonical trade data model and map it to client CTRM, ERP, and contract-management systems.
- Define validation rules, master-data requirements, and approval workflows.
- Define AI extraction test sets and review accuracy against real trade recaps.
- Support the functional design of confirmations, amendments, position reporting, and the VaR module.
- Develop test scenarios, test cases, and expected results.
- Support system integration testing, user acceptance testing, and regression testing.
- Lead defect triage, distinguishing between process, configuration, data, AI, and technical issues.
- Support data migration, cutover planning, go-live readiness, and business sign-off.
- Support product demonstrations, RFP responses, and client proposals.
- Deliver training and knowledge transfer to clients and internal support teams.
Required Experience
- At least 7 years of business analysis experience in commodity or energy trading.
- Strong understanding of the trade lifecycle from pre-deal and capture through to settlement.
- Strong knowledge of physical commodity trading, including contract terms, pricing formulas, incoterms, and logistics.
- Experience with at least one E/CTRM platform, such as Endur, Allegro, RightAngle, Aspect, or Eka.
- Practical experience taking requirements from initial analysis through to implementation.
- Experience preparing functional specifications, process flows, and traceability matrices.
- Experience supporting SIT, UAT, regression testing, and defect management.
- Experience working directly with software developers and technical architects.
- Ability to use SQL for data analysis, reconciliation, or issue investigation.
- Experience with Agile delivery and tools such as Jira or Azure DevOps.
Preferred Experience
- Experience in one or more of crude and products, LNG, metals and concentrates, or agriculture.
- Experience with trade confirmations, trade control, or contract-management processes.
- Understanding of market risk, including positions, P&L, stress testing, and Value at Risk.
- Experience with AI, automation, or document-processing products.
- Experience with API and integration specifications.
- Experience in a software vendor, product company, or consultancy.
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
