Job Title: Business Systems Analyst Senior – Trading
Location: INVER GROVE, Minnesota (Hybrid)
Job Summary: We are representing an opportunity for an experienced business analysis professional to support commodity trade operations, hedging initiatives, and application stability across front-to-back processes. This position offers the chance to partner closely with business and technology teams to shape requirements, improve delivery outcomes, and strengthen production support for critical trading workflows.
Responsibilities:
- Lead end-to-end business analysis for hedging and trade initiatives, including discovery, process mapping, documentation, and stabilization support.
- Translate business needs into clear requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and supporting documentation for solution delivery.
- Support SIT and UAT planning and execution, including test strategy input, test case review, coordination, and defect triage.
- Provide functional and techno-functional support for trade applications, including incident analysis, root-cause investigation, integration troubleshooting, and production readiness activities.
Required:
- 7+ years of experience as a Business Analyst or Senior Business Analyst supporting commodity trading and hedging processes in a functional or techno-functional capacity.
- Experience with ION XTP or similar ION platforms supporting trade processing, integrations, and operational workflows.
- Experience with ION Openlink (Endur/Openlink) in a functional or techno-functional role supporting trading and risk operations.
- Proven delivery experience across requirements, process mapping, solution design support, SIT/UAT coordination, defect triage, deployment readiness, hypercare, production support, incident analysis, root-cause investigation, vendor coordination, and operational documentation.
- Ability to translate complex business needs into clear, testable requirements and manage traceability through testing and release.
- Strong facilitation, stakeholder management, written communication, and verbal communication skills.
- Experience working with market data, pricing, and reference data concepts as they relate to trading and risk reporting.
- Preferred: experience in regulated or controlled environments with strong attention to auditability, controls, and operational risk management; soft commodities such as grains and seeds experience.
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