Senior Business Analyst – ION / Commodity Trading Systems

Accountabilities:

As a Senior Business Analyst, you will bridge business operations and technology delivery, ensuring that commodity trading systems meet functional requirements and support reliable end-to-end processes. Your responsibilities will include:

• Lead business analysis activities for commodity trading and hedging initiatives, from requirements gathering through implementation and post-production stabilization.
• Analyze and document business processes, workflows, controls, exceptions, and front-to-back trade lifecycle activities.
• Translate business needs into functional specifications, user stories, acceptance criteria, and process documentation.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, solution architects, developers, and vendors to define solutions and deliver application enhancements.
• Support trading, risk management, position management, exposure analysis, profit and loss (P&L), settlements, confirmations, and reporting processes.
• Coordinate System Integration Testing (SIT) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT), including test planning, test case reviews, execution, and defect resolution.
• Manage defect triage, investigate application issues, assess business impacts, and coordinate corrective actions.
• Support integrations involving market data, trade processing, settlements, accounting, and downstream reporting systems.
• Conduct incident analysis and root-cause investigations in collaboration with vendors and internal IT support teams.
• Contribute to deployment readiness, cutover planning, release management, and post-go-live hypercare.
• Maintain functional specifications, operational procedures, support documentation, and troubleshooting guides.
• Identify opportunities to improve system reliability, operational efficiency, business controls, and existing processes.
• Facilitate stakeholder discussions, manage dependencies, and maintain alignment between business requirements and technical delivery.

Requirements:

The ideal candidate combines extensive business analysis experience with hands-on knowledge of ION trading platforms and commodity trading workflows. The following qualifications are required or preferred:

• At least 7 years of experience as a Business Analyst or Senior Business Analyst supporting IT applications, preferably in commodity trading and hedging.
• Hands-on experience with ION XTP or comparable ION trading platforms.
• Functional or techno-functional experience with ION Openlink, Openlink Endur, or related Energy Trading and Risk Management (ETRM) or Commodity Trading and Risk Management (CTRM) platforms.
• Strong understanding of commodity trading, hedging strategies, and end-to-end trade lifecycle processes.
• Experience with soft commodities, particularly grains and seeds.
• Proven expertise in requirements gathering, process mapping, functional documentation, and stakeholder management.
• Experience coordinating SIT and UAT, managing defects, and supporting deployment and post-production stabilization.
• Practical knowledge of production application support, incident management, root-cause analysis, and vendor coordination.
• Understanding of system integrations, market data, pricing, settlements, and trading-related reporting.
• Excellent communication, analytical thinking, problem-solving, and collaboration skills.

Preferred qualifications include:

• Experience in regulated or controlled environments, particularly those emphasizing auditability, operational controls, and risk management.
• Familiarity with trade confirmations, position reconciliation, exposure reporting, and P&L processes.
• Experience improving application support workflows, operational documentation, and release management practices.

Benefits:

• Fully remote working arrangement.
• Long-term contract opportunity with an initial duration of 12 months or more.
• Opportunity to work on complex commodity trading and hedging systems.
• Exposure to ION platforms and ETRM/CTRM solutions in a business-critical technology environment.
• Salary, healthcare coverage, paid leave, and other additional benefits are not specified in the available job description.