Business Analyst Data

Our client a commodities trading company is seeking a business analyst strong in data analytics and familiar with front office environments.

Job Description

Position Description:The Market Data Business Analyst will report to the Lead IT Business Analyst within the Data Team in the IT Department. The company is investing in Data and Analytics to enable a more datadriven approach to commercial decisionmaking risk management and operations. As part of this initiative the Data Team is delivering a modern data platform using Azure Databricks providing new capabilities across the business including:

• A central warehouse of trade valuation and risk data
• A central hub for sharing market fundamentals for commodity markets
• Pipelines for scraping ingesting and analyzing internal public and licensed data
• Processes and tools for data governance and discovery
• A reporting tool for EOD P&L Attribution
• Analytics and visualization tailored to business user needs

Responsibilities:

Business Analysis for Small Changes and Projects:

• Understand and prioritize user needs creating prototypes worked examples or mockups to clarify functional requirements
• Perform system or data analysis to define system requirements
• Design and implement reports and solutions to fulfill functional and system requirements
• Document user requests and system changes in JIRA
• Collaborate with the IT team to breakdown design and estimate changes
• Act as Product Owner in agile delivery teams
• Perform testing and run UAT
• Support release planning and golive
• Create user documentation and provide training
• Assist users in setting up and using the Data platform
• Support endusers by explaining key datasets and analyzing data with tools such as DataBricks SQL Python (Pandas pySpark) and PowerQuery
• Help users access data in enduser tools like Python Excel or PowerBI
• Create Power BI datasets and dashboards to visualize data
• Create DataBricks Notebooks to process and visualize data
• Deliver reports or analytics using source control and CI/CD pipelines
• Build relationships with Data Owners in the business
• Coordinate and administer data governance processes
• Support rolebased access control across different components
• Maintain data catalogues
• Document and communicate platform capabilities and data catalogue updates
• Assist users in finding data and using selfservice data discovery tools
• Conduct periodic reviews of data usage and access control recommending changes as needed
• Enhance data governance processes and tools

Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in a numerate subject or equivalent professional qualification
• 5 years experience as an IT Business Analyst Analyst Developer or Front Office/Middle Office Analyst within a trading house investment bank or through a tier1 vendor/consultancy
• Experience in a Commodities Trading business and working with an ETRM application (e.g. Allegro Endur Aspect) and data (e.g. trade operations market data valuation and risk)
• Proficiency with data analysis and BI tools (e.g. SQL PowerQuery Excel Python DataBricks SnowFlake Power BI Tableau)

Remote Work :

No