Senior Business Analyst — Commodity Trading & AI Platform

OrbicTrade

Dubai

On-site

AED 250,000 - 420,000

Full time

2 days ago

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Job summary

OrbicTrade, an AI-enabled front-office and risk platform, is seeking a Senior Business Analyst in Dubai. You will connect trading users with the Dubai product and engineering teams, turning real workflows into clear requirements and guiding design, testing and client delivery.

This hands-on role requires deep understanding of commodity trading processes and software development. You will contribute to the product roadmap and client implementations, working across traders, IT, risk and operations

Qualifications

At least 7 years of business analysis experience in commodity or energy trading.
Strong understanding of the trade lifecycle from pre-deal and capture through to settlement.
Strong knowledge of physical commodity trading, including contract terms, pricing formulas, incoterms and logistics.
Experience with at least one E/CTRM platform, such as Endur, Allegro, RightAngle, Aspect or Eka.
Practical experience taking requirements from initial analysis through to implementation.
Experience preparing functional specifications, process flows and traceability matrices.
Experience supporting SIT, UAT, regression testing and defect management.
Experience working directly with software developers and technical architects.
Ability to use SQL for data analysis, reconciliation or issue investigation.
Experience with Agile delivery and tools such as Jira or Azure DevOps.

Responsibilities

Lead workshops with traders, trade assistants, trade control, operations, risk and IT stakeholders.
Document current-state and target-state processes, business requirements, user stories and acceptance criteria.
Perform fit-gap assessments and recommend standard product capabilities wherever appropriate.
Translate trading requirements into clear functional specifications for engineering.
Maintain the prioritised backlog with product and engineering leads.
Define the canonical trade data model and map it to client CTRM, ERP and contract-management systems.
Define validation rules, master-data requirements and approval workflows.
Define AI extraction test sets and review accuracy against real trade recaps.
Support functional design of confirmations, amendments, position reporting and the VaR module.
Develop test scenarios, test cases and expected results.
Support system integration testing, user acceptance testing and regression testing.
Lead defect triage, distinguishing between process, configuration, data, AI and technical issues.
Support data migration, cutover planning, go-live readiness and business sign-off.
Support product demonstrations, RFP responses and client proposals.
Deliver training and knowledge transfer to clients and internal support teams.