London Metal Exchange
Business Analyst
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Business Analyst
Shift Pattern: Standard 40 Hour Week (United Kingdom) Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40 Corporate Grade: E - Associate Reporting Line: (UK Division) Trading & COO Location: UK-London Worker Type: Permanent
Overall Purpose of Role
We are seeking a highly motivated Business Analyst with a genuine interest in exchange trading and a passion for delivering best in class solutions to our customers. The Business Analyst will be a part of a cross-business delivery team, helping us to enhance and optimise our trading capabilities.
The ideal candidate will need experience in delivering in environments, particularly with Scrum-based practices, and will be familiar with Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) methodologies. The role will involve working with stakeholders from across the LME group to understand needs, collaborate across teams to create a shared understanding of intent, and contribute to solutions that meet the business and user needs.
Responsibilities:
- Requirements Gathering: Work with stakeholders to elicit, analyse, and document business requirements, focusing on pricing needs.
- Delivery: Work with stakeholders to define a plan, manage it, and see the delivery through to completion.
- User Story Development: Translate business requirements into clear, concise user stories with well-defined acceptance criteria, using BDD techniques.
- Backlog Management: Work with the Product Owner to ensure there is a health backlog of ready stories that are aligned with business goals and priorities.
- Data Analysis: Analyse existing data sets, structures and processes, identifying areas for improvement.
- Stakeholder Communication: Serve as the facilitator between stakeholders, ensuring that there is close collaboration and that business needs are accurately translated into requirements.
- Solution Design: Support the design and validation of solutions, understanding operational impact and ensuring they meet business needs in alignment with the solution architecture.
- Documentation: Maintain comprehensive documentation of business processes, requirements, user stories, user guides, and other relevant project details.
- Testing & Validation: Collaborate with Engineers to define and execute test scenarios, ensuring solutions meet acceptance criteria.
- Continuous Learning: Collaborate with the wider Business Analysis capability and Community of Practices for shared knowledge, support and contribution to the ongoing development of individual and organisational capabilities.
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Academic And Professional Qualifications Required
- Degree Level educated or equivalent in a relevant discipline.
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Required Knowledge And Level Of Experience
- Experience: Experience as a Business Analyst, preferably within the financial services industry. Experience of working in an exchange environment or similar domain.
- Knowledge: Knowledge of trading/clearing systems, commodities trading/clearing and knowledge of the regulatory context within which the LME and LME Clear operates.
- Agile/Scrum: Strong understanding of agile methodologies, particularly Scrum. Experience in an agile environment is essential.
- BDD Knowledge: Familiarity with Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) practices and tools such as Cucumber, Gherkin, or similar.
- Tools: Experience with Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Office suite (365). Knowledge of python, SQL and data querying languages.
The LME is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. In recruiting for our teams, we welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of education, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity, expression & reassignment, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation and beliefs. In doing so, we want every LME employee to feel our commitment to showing respect for all and encouraging open collaboration and communication.
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