IT Business Analyst

Main purpose

Within this role, the candidate will collaborate with various groups and business partners to extract and analyze their needs and translate them into system specifications by detailing processes and workflows to facilitate the technology team understanding. The candidate will engage in identifying areas of improvements, recommending solutions, and providing mentorship to improve business benefits and incrementing operational efficiency.

Key responsibilities

• Understand and evaluate business partners’ objectives, needs and challenges to anticipate requirements and resolve areas of improvements.
• Business requirement gathering and elicitation.
• Facilitate initiatives prioritization based on business needs and requirements.
• Produce and maintain detailed documentation including business processes (as-is and to-be), workflows, use cases and user stories.
• Translate business requirements into clear and concise functional specifications for technical teams.
• Assist technology teams to design solutions that meet business needs by monitoring, assessing, and validating the solutions and deliverables.
• Coordinate and conduct meetings and presentations to share findings, ideas, and solutions across different technical and non-technical collaborators.
• Collecting critical information from meetings with various collaborators.

Required qualifications

• 4+ years of proven work experience as business analyst or functional analyst.
• Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP®) or similar certifications.
• Fluent English, intermediate or equivalent to B2+.
• Proficient in Spanish, advanced or equivalent to C1+. 

Preferred qualifications

• It’s a plus to have proven ability of requirement analysis in a commercial environment.
• It’s a plus to have experience in at least one of the following areas: Physical commodity trading life cycle, logistics and storage/inventory management, Invoicing for physical commodities and associated tax implications and/or Settlements & confirmations process for physical and derivative trading.

Attributes for success

• Analytical and problem-solving skills to identify issues and develop effective solutions.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, ability to clearly transmit information between technical and non-technical collaborators.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced high-pressure environment.
• Capacity to adapt to different situations.
• Ability to drive business process changes - challenging current business practices, working with key business process personnel.
• Willingness to learn and capacity of self-directed learning.

Department overview

The key relationships of the role will be with the Local and Global IT Teams as well as other Local and Global departments such as IT Infrastructure, Accounting and Operations.

Montevideo IT Trading Team is a growing team owning the Digital Transformation across the Region as well as playing an active role on projects lead from the Headquarters.

Equal opportunity employer

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and take pride in a diverse workforce! We do not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or other employment practices for reasons of race, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, marital or veteran status, medical condition or handicap, disability, or any other legally protected status.