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Contract Role: IT Projects Business Analyst
Contract Location: London
Contract Frequency: 4-5 days onsite each week
Contract Start: Starting ASAP (inside IR35)
Contract duration: End of 2026
Payroll provider: Rockford Payroll Info for Contingent Workers – Rockford Pay
Deloitte are seeking a highly experienced IT Projects Business Analyst to support the expansion of AI-enabled products within the Products Trading organisation.
The successful candidate will be responsible for bridging business and technology teams, translating complex commodities trading business challenges into digital and AI-enabled solutions.
This role requires a seasoned Business Analyst with strong knowledge of Commodities Trading, Products Trading, Supply & Distribution, Logistics, Risk Management, and Commercial optimisation.
Experience working on AI, data, analytics, or digital transformation initiatives is highly desirable.
Critical Success Factors
The ideal candidate will:
- Bring strong industry credibility within Commodities & Products Trading.
- Quickly understand complex business challenges and opportunities.
- Bridge the gap between business stakeholders and technical delivery teams.
- Drive AI adoption through practical business use cases.
- Lead analysis across multiple high-priority initiatives simultaneously.
- Demonstrate leadership, strategic thinking, and commercial acumen
Key Responsibilities
Business Analysis Leadership
- Lead discovery, analysis, process modelling and requirements definition activities across multiple strategic initiatives.
- Translate business opportunities and operational challenges into actionable functional and technical requirements.
- Facilitate workshops with traders, schedulers, operators, commercial teams, product owners and technology teams.
- Define user stories, business processes, capability maps, acceptance criteria and business outcomes.
- Drive solution alignment across business, product and engineering teams.
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Essential Experience (Must Have)
- Extensive Business Analysis experience within Commodities Trading or Energy Trading environments.
- Strong knowledge of Products Trading business processes and value chains.
- Proven experience working directly with traders, operators, schedulers, planners and commercial stakeholders.
- Experience supporting large-scale digital transformation initiatives.
- Strong stakeholder management and workshop facilitation skills.
- Experience working within Agile product delivery environments.
- Excellent communication and leadership capabilities.
AI & Digital Product Enablement (Must Have)
- Identify opportunities to leverage AI and Generative AI capabilities within trading and commercial workflows.
- Work closely with AI engineers, data scientists, and developers to define and deliver AI-enabled solutions.
- Support product discovery, MVP definition, and scaling of successful AI products.
- Translate business use cases into requirements suitable for AI and Large Language Model (LLM) based solutions.
- Evaluate business value and adoption opportunities for AI-enabled products.
Stakeholder Management (Must Have)
- Partner with senior stakeholders across Trading & Supply, Products, Commercial and Technology organisations.
- Build trusted relationships across global teams.
- Communicate effectively with both business and technical audiences.
- Influence decision-making and drive alignment across multiple delivery teams.
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AI & Data (Must Have)
- Experience delivering AI, Machine Learning or Advanced Analytics solutions.
- Understanding of Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs).
- Experience converting business requirements into AI use cases.
- Familiarity with AI product lifecycles and adoption challenges.
Commodities & Products Trading Expertise (Great To Have)
Provide subject matter expertise and analysis across areas such as:
- Refined Products Trading
- Crude Trading
- Deal Capture & Trade Lifecycle Management
- Commercial Operations
- Scheduling & Logistics
- Inventory Management
- Supply & Distribution
- Blending & Optimisation
- Risk & Exposure Management
- Margin & P&L Analysis
- Trading Analytics & Decision Support
- Front, Middle and Back Office Processes
Leadership & Mentoring (Good To Have)
- Provide guidance and coaching to junior and mid-level Business Analysts.
- Establish best practices for business analysis and requirements management.
- Contribute to capability development within the BA community.
- Act as a trusted advisor on complex business and technology initiatives.
Trading Platforms & Technologies (Good To Have)
- Experience with one or more of the following:
- Endur
- Allegro
- Openlink
- RightAngle
- SAP
- Veson
- Trading Data Platforms
- Commodity Risk Management Systems
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