Sr Business Analyst - Data Analytics

Overview

Company 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 18,000 people globally.

The DT&A Department is seeking a Senior Business Analyst for its Data & Analytics Service, to be based in Memphis. As part of a dynamic IT organization undergoing 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 driven by analytic applications. Join us to contribute and establish yourself as a key member of our IT organization.

• Establish a relationship with business partners to analyze and understand their data and analytics needs, seeking opportunities to improve and transform business processes
• Be a key contributor for the successful deployment of various Data & Analytics products for the region/platform
• Act as a change agent to review and deploy process transformation on various Data & Analytics products for the region/platform

• Manage your solutions/products’ scope, processes and stakeholders
• Monitor adoption measures for processes and applications in your area and propose corrective actions when necessary
• Ensure an agile product backlog, roll outs, continuous improvement plan and deployments are defined and kept in sync with the global BI strategy
• Provide a support structure for your products and serve as the go-to person for traders’ users to drive adoption and embed analytics solutions in business processes
• Gather and translate business requirements into detailed functional specifications and manage change requests
• Own delivery of parts of projects or programs within your scope and track metrics on time and on budget
• Ensure deliverables are properly documented with adequate reference materials
• Highlight implementation constraints and dependencies with other solutions to the solution manager
• Provide management with accurate and timely status reports of all projects/scope as assigned
• Assist business partners in integrating requirements into business processes to achieve expected outcomes
• Collaborate with business owners and external delivery partners to develop or support data and analytics products
• Support business partners in testing phases and organize training sessions as required
• Design and implement dimensional data models, star schemas, and semantic layers optimized for analytics and reporting

• 3-5 years of proven experience in a business analyst role on analytics projects
• Project management experience in small to medium projects with ability to report status and risks
• Experience in commodities trading domain (middle office or controlling processes) is a strong plus (Position Reporting, Daily P&L, Execution, Risk Exposure, etc.)
• Experience defining KPIs and storytelling visual analytics is a plus
• Client-facing experience is a plus

• Understanding of global enterprise data management systems
• Knowledge of front-end and data visualization tools for analytics (dashboards, cockpit views, reports); familiarity with Microsoft Power BI and/or Tableau
• Design and development skills on data structures and data flow for ETL, data warehousing, and data modeling; familiarity with Microsoft Azure and MSSQL or similar technologies
• Knowledge of business rules coding, scripting, and BI systems architecture is a plus

• Ability to move across multiple projects and prioritize many open cases
• Curiosity and eagerness to understand complex business processes
• Quick learner, able to ramp up in new domains, work independently
• Excellent teamwork, communication and collaboration skills
• Strong analytical, synthesis and communication abilities; ability to negotiate and influence internally and externally

• Higher education in IT,…