SENIOR BUSINESS ANALYST

Company Description

Louis Dreyfus Company is a leading merchant and processor of agricultural goods. Our activities span the entire value chain from farm to fork, across a broad range of business lines. We leverage our global reach and extensive asset network to serve our customers and consumers around the world. Structured as a matrix organisation of six geographical regions and ten platforms, Louis Dreyfus Company is active in over 100 countries and employs approximately 18,000 people globally.

The IT Department of Louis Dreyfus Company is currently looking for a BI Senior Business Analyst for its Business Intelligence Service, to be based in Lyon. As part of a dynamic IT organization currently undergoing a transformational change, you will act as a change booster and play a key role in business process transformation to enable innovative and faster decision-making processes driven by analytic applications. We invite you to join our team if you aim to make a difference with your contribution and establish yourself as a key member of our IT organization.

Job Description

1. Responsible for project success owning project scope and being responsible for your BI products adoption and delivery of expected business outcomes.
2. Ensure agile product road maps, roll outs, continuous improvement plan and deployments are defined and constantly updated in sync with the global Business Intelligence strategy.
3. Ensure support structure is in place for your products and become the “go to person” for traders users’ community driving adoption and removing roadblocks to effectively embed BI Solutions in business processes.
4. Create strong and trusting relationships not only with your key business partners but also with your IT colleagues achieving success as one team.
5. Own the delivery of projects (including resources needs and financials) to provide new products to support decision-making processes and their associated metrics on time, budget and outcomes.
6. Responsible for gathering and translating business requirements into detailed functional specifications and managing requests for changes.
7. Ensure products’ deliverables are properly documented and with adequate reference material.
8. Follow up issues and risks, and trigger appropriate escalations in case of need.
9. Propose mitigation plan in case of issues and risks assessing different options and providing recommendations.
10. Identify dependencies within parallel running projects in IT portfolio and proactively put in place actions to mitigate related risks.
11. Provide management with accurate and timely status reports of all projects/scope as assigned.
12. Assist business partners in determining how business requirements are integrated into business processes and generate expected outcomes.
13. Work closely with the business owners of your application/solution being the intermediary between them and our external delivery partners to develop or support your BI products.
14. Support business partners in the test phases and organize training sessions as required.
15. Learn all core technologies in the BI IT portfolio and how to build BI reports and analytics applications starting from the data using them proficiently.

Qualifications

1. 5+ years of proven experience in a business analyst type of role in IT projects implementation.
2. Proven project management experience within at least 2 complete projects’ lifecycles.
3. Previous experience in commodities trading domain on middle office or controlling processes will be considered a strong plus (Position Reporting, Daily P&L, Execution, Risk Exposure etc.).
4. Previous experience in KPIs definition and storytelling visual analytics implementation will be considered a strong plus.
5. Previous experience in a client-facing role will be considered a plus.
6. IT consulting background and IT hands-on experiences will be considered a plus.
7. Experience in a multi-cultural environment.

Technical Skills:

1. Good knowledge of front end and data visualization tools for BI applications implementation (dashboard, cockpits, analytics, reports) with preferably previous experience in one of:

• Microsoft Power BI
• TIBCO Spotfire
• Tableau

• SAP BW / HANA / BODS
• MSSQL or similar technologies
• Microsoft Azure Framework

Soft Skills:

1. Agility being able to move easily across different projects and initiatives, to prioritize and manage many open cases at one time.
2. Curiosity and eagerness for exploring and understanding complex business processes.
3. Deep critical thinking attitude to be able to manage ambiguity and complexity comfortably.
4. Quick learner on new domains, ramp up on knowledge curve easily, ability to work independently and with little prompting.
5. Inclination to make improvements, find new ideas and challenge the status quo.
6. Excellent in execution with natural sense of duty and urgency to drive the change.
7. Attention to details and inclination to find new analysis perspectives.
8. Strong business analysis skills (understanding of functional business processes in solution design and configuration experience, identification of value drivers and expected business outcomes).
9. Excellent Project management skills (scope and quality management, resource management, budget management, issue management, stakeholder management).
10. Strong analysis, synthesis and communication capacity (written and oral), ability to negotiate and influence both internally and externally.
11. Customer service oriented approach focused on your business partner understanding and on business value added.

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