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 organization of six geographical regions and ten platforms, Louis Dreyfus Company is active in over 100 countries and employs approximately 17,000 people globally.

This position works within a larger Project Team focusing on replacing and enhancing business‑critical systems and primary business processes. The role collaborates heavily with business stakeholders, IT teams, and technology partners to understand and document, validate, test, and train on business process transformation mapping as well as functional requirements in support of custom software development for a global merchandiser and processor of agricultural goods.

• Partners with business unit personnel at multiple locations to understand business needs and translate those needs into detailed business process documentation, serving as a baseline for the creation of functional requirements for software development.
• Collaborates closely with remote IT teams and technology partners to refine and validate functional requirements, and transition into technical requirements for software development.
• Develops, in partnership with business stakeholders, acceptance criteria and test cases and facilitates user acceptance testing.
• Researches, identifies, and documents current business process functions (AS IS) and partners with business stakeholders to facilitate improvement and transformation of business processes (TO BE) with an end goal of implementing a modern software platform supporting key business processes.
• Gains a robust understanding of company business concepts and processes in order to support efficient development of functional and system requirements.
• Works effectively in a multicultural project team with stakeholders around the globe, and manages multiple concurrent requirements and development streams.
• Builds, organizes, and maintains logical linking of functional requirements as mapped to business processes.
• Collaborates with business process teams to translate developed functionality into real‑world application through training and documentation.
• Knowledge and expertise of software tools to assist with documentation, requisitions, and tasks to ensure project delivery.
• Project coordination of various project delivery tasks, as needed.

• As with all other roles within the IT team, the emphasis is strongly on tackling any tasks needed to drive progress and successful outcomes, rather than artificial task silos by role or title. Other duties and responsibilities may be assigned on an ad hoc basis across projects and other team activities.

Basic qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher from an accredited 4‑year college or university.

Preferred qualification:

• Master’s degree in business or computer science.

Basic qualifications:

• 7+ years of strong technical or operational experience in financial or trading systems and a successful history of project plan completion.
• Experience analyzing, implementing and supporting enterprise reporting architectures and related technologies.
• Experience in participating in cross‑functional project teams; ability to perform in various roles from individual contributor to a leadership role; ability to contribute to planning, organization and managing of project teams using a structured delivery methodology.
• Experience establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with other business organizations; successful experience in working with diverse groups of people in a problem‑solving environment.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with functional and technical aspects of major enterprise business systems and related technologies.

Basic qualifications:

• Understanding…