Cognizant’s MLEU Consulting team has open opportunities in its Trading and Risk Management consulting practice. We are a team of advisory consultants & product managers working for global oil and gas/commodities trading clients to create significant business value. The team leverages their technology savviness, functional expertise to lead and execute digital transformation initiatives.
Professional Qualifications and Skills
- Full time MBA from any top tier B School (preferably in Ops/Finance/IT/Systems)
- 7-15 years of work experience as Business Analyst/ consultants
Role 1: Functional Architect/Lead [ Must have 10+ years of experience; 8+ years of Business Analysis experience (Functional designs, product solution design/BRD/FSD/User stories/epics/Agile); excellent communication skills & trade life cycle in Commodity trading domain (Energy, Agri , Metals, Bulk concentrates) ]
Work Location: Pune/Chennai/Bangalore
Must Haves:
- Problem solving mindset with experience on complex design and large product development projects using Agile.
- Strong experience in IT consulting and business analysis – business process definition, requirements gathering, functional designs, product solution design, proficiency in writing complex BRD, FDD, FSD and user stories.
- Ability to clearly communicate information to stakeholders.
- Knowledge/ experience of SQL for data extraction.
- Experience in creating data models, ER diagrams, and application architecture.
Big Plus:
- Detailed knowledge of trade life cycle in Commodity trading domain (Energy, Agri, Metals).
- Experience of working in multi-vendor setup.
- Experience in using Visual Paradigm, Draw IO, Confluence, Jira.
Responsibilities
- Identify opportunities to deliver value to business by building new capabilities or resolving existing issues.
- Closely work with Global Product Managers and support them in their initiatives.
- Gather and analyse requirements, evaluate options, propose solution, design IT application architecture and manage dependencies.
- Act as a key point of contact to the Business departments, IT BA, and technical leads throughout the solution design and implementation.
- Contribute and take ownership for various project related tasks / planning activities as the programme evolves.
- Support UAT and migration activities.
- Review artifacts produced by IT BAs.
Role 2: Middle office BA [Must have 8+ years of experience; 5+ years of BA experience; excellent comm skills & logistics/supply chain domain expertise/understanding of ETRM/CTRM]
Work Location: Pune/Chennai
Must have:
- Majority of experience should be on Trading (Physical/derivatives) platforms.
- Should have detailed knowledge of trade life cycle in Commodity trading domain. (Energy, Agri, metals, concentrates)
- Broad exposure (deal-to-cash) and specialization in middle office functions of commodity Trading landscape – Middle Office (Logistics, physical delivery, inventory management, procurement, supply chain, Storage, transport, invoicing)
- Strong experience in IT consulting and business analysis – process definition, requirements gathering, Proficiency in writing BRD, FSD and user stories
Role 3: Front Office BA [ Must have 8+ years of experience; 5+ years of BA experience; excellent comm skills & deal capture, deal pricing, Hedging, PnL , Valuation, close of business, Derivatives, trade capture, commodity contracts, P&L, Hedging, Order Management]
Work Location: Pune & Chennai
Must have:
- Majority of experience should be on Trading (Physical/derivatives) platforms.
- Should have detailed knowledge of trade life cycle in Commodity trading domain. (Energy, Agri, metals, concentrates)
- Broad exposure (deal-to-cash) and specialization in front office functions of Commodity Trading landscape – deal capture, deal pricing, Hedging, PnL , Valuation, close of business, Derivatives, trade capture, commodity contracts, P&L, Hedging, Order Management
- Strong experience in IT consulting and business analysis – process definition, requirements gathering, Proficiency in writing BRD, FSD and user stories
Role 4: Back-office BA [Must have 8+ years of experience; 5+ years of BA experience; excellent comm skills & Invoicing expertise]
Work Location: Pune
- Strong experience in IT consulting and business analysis – business process definition, requirements gathering, Functional designs, product solution design, proficiency in writing complex BRD, FSD and user stories
- Majority of experience should be in business consulting in either of the following domains:
- Supply Chain/Logistics/Freight Transportation
- Broad exposure (deal-to-cash) and specialization in middle office functions of commodity Trading landscape – Middle Office (Logistics, physical delivery, inventory management, procurement, supply chain, Storage, transport, invoicing)
- Detailed knowledge of trade life cycle in Commodity trading domain (Energy, Agri, metals, concentrates)
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