About the Role:

- Within this role, the candidate will be responsible for requirement gathering to enable the delivery of complex software development projects.
- Understanding and verifying business cases for change.
- Completing business process analysis, and defining business requirements, functional requirements, and design.
- This will be executed across multiple projects within the trading division.
- The candidate will manage relationships and expectations with business stakeholders and sponsors and support development and test teams throughout the entire delivery lifecycle.
- The candidate will be expected to apply structured analysis and problem-solving in areas where they may not have business domain knowledge and experience.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

- Proven ability to act as a bridge between the business and highly technical developers located in remote offices, translating business concepts into requirements that are implementable.
- Expected to have 5+ years' experience in requirements analysis in a commercial environment.
- Expected to be a domain expert in the following areas:
- Physical commodity trading terms & lifecycle.
- Commodities transport, blending, quality analysis, and storage.
- P&L; impacts of logistics activities.
- Demonstrable ability to drive business process changes – challenging current business practices, working with key business process personnel.
- Experience of a variety of software development methodologies (e.g., continuous integration, iterative development).
- Experience of defining requirements for interfaces between application components or systems and support in the development and testing thereof.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.




- Able to self-manage and regularly prioritise and plan activities across multiple project work streams.
- Strong academic background – An excellent degree from a top-tier university is required in a subject that demonstrates the need for logical thinking, precise understanding, and clear articulation.

Key Responsibilities:

- Develop and maintain working relationships with business stakeholders.
- Primary responsibility is the determination & clear articulation of business requirements for the physical commodity trading and logistics area.
- Responsible for clearly articulating target business processes and the business requirements, and functional design to enable change.
- Work with the functional architecture team to determine the design of a solution, including screen design & usability to optimize business processes.
- Detailed story elaboration to enable the system development.
- Support development teams to ensure a solution meets its business requirements.
- Support quality assurance teams to ensure a solution meets its business requirements.
- Support change management and training teams to prepare business stakeholders for process and functional change.
- Provide third-line support for production issues.

Key Relationships:

- Robust collaborative relationship with architects, developers, project managers & other business analysts.
- Testing and training groups.

Key Attitudes / Competencies:

- Delivery focused.
- Develop and maintain close relationships with business and IT stakeholders.
- Team worker, mentoring of junior IT Business Analysts.
- Positive communicator, engaging, and able to work with offshore teams across various time zones.
- Ability to make decisions & thrive in a quick-paced environment.

📌 Lead Business Analyst (Middle Office) (Mumbai)
🏢 PSS Global
📍 Mumbai