Business Analyst – Finance & Credit

• Liaises internally and build close, collaborative relationships with the user base
• Be part of a large IT Programme of over 100 people (BA, DEV & QA) working in the development of this CTRM, its modules, and its integrated systems.

• Demonstrate a service-oriented approach, an understanding of the customer’s business needs and be able to achieve and maintain high customer satisfaction ratings.
• Manage client expectations effectively.
• Work alongside a ‘Product Owner’ / Senior Business Analyst on the Finance and Credit modules, developing forward-thinking systems and features within the CTRM and outside (i.e Extract and Reports /BI tools)
• Design integrated solutions with other product owners across locations and across stream (and across commodities and asset classes (Oil, natgas, power, Derivatives)
• Work hand-in-hand with a dedicated team of C# (wpf) developers to your team
• Be part of the SDLC for all Finance and Credit developments
• Keep a constant specified and prioritized backlog of stories to develop and lead the development throughout Daily Stand-up and workshops under the supervision of the Product Owner

• Participate in daily standups
• Gather requirements across the group’s location and department (i.e Geneva, Singapore, Houston..)
• Run workshops with Business and IT (dev, qa)
• Maintain an up-to-date list of specification in DevOps (Taking part actively in backlog refinement sessions with the Agile team)
• Report to the Product Owner and/or the PMO the progress of your deliveries.
• Act as a 1st level Support when required on the module you will work on.
• Work hand-in-hand with the QA (testers) in the testing of your stories and assist them improve the regression tests
• Provide quick-wins to your user base (i.e. Using PowerBI report for instance)

• Fluent in English (spoken and written).
• Strong knowledge of either Finance or Credit concepts in a Trading House.
• Formal education, ideally at University level or equivalent level of certification and experience.
• Minimum 2-3 years of previous relevant professional experience in IT or a Software Company or a Banking/Trading-related company.
• Experience in providing excellent Customer Service to a local and global user base.
• Expert communicator
• Team player with ability to exercise flexibility, demonstrate initiative to ensure the business needs are met in a proactive manner with limited supervision.
• Good interpersonal skills, especially communication, able to communicate technical solutions to non-technical users, in a multi cultured working environment and able to cope in stressful/difficult/conflict situations in a serviced oriented manner.
• Highly organized and possess analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Be self-motivated and creative and able to work with minimum supervision..
• Above average SQL skills / or any other language (Python, C#)

• General skills on ICT technologies.

• Understanding of Finance related topics such as Structured trade Finance, Credit Exposure, General Ledger, Payment, Swift, Letter of credit, Loans, SWIFT..
• Good knowledge of any of the following commodities (Oil, Gas, Metal & their associated derivatives instruments)
• Proven experience in lengthy implementation and/or upgrade of CTRM/ETRM, Trading (Physical/Financial)
• Other languages in addition to English will be useful but not mandatory, e.g. French, Russian
• Certifications/experience on any of the following will be very useful: Microsoft software technologies, Software design, development and testing methodologies/concepts, Project management, ITIL., Technical certification
• Ability to debug/write stored procedures
• Ability to do PowerBI reports (or other BI tools)

Gunvor Group