Sr Business Analyst - Data Analytics

Sr Business Analyst - Data Analytics Louis Dreyfus
• Cordova, TN, United States 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 18,000 people globally.

The DT&A Department of Louis Dreyfus Company is currently looking for a Senior Business Analyst for its Data & Analytics Service, to be based in Memphis. As part of a dynamic IT organization currently undergoing a transformational change, you will act as a change booster and play a key role on business process transformation to enable innovative and faster decision‑making processes driven by analytic application.

We invite you to join our team if you aim to make the difference with your contribution and establish yourself as a key member of our IT organization.

• Establish a relationship with your business partners to analyze and understand their data and analytics needs, searching for opportunities to improve and transform business processes
• You will be a key contributor for the successful deployment of various Data & Analytics products for the region/platform
• You will be the change agent in charge of reviewing and deploying the process transformation on various Data & Analytics products for the region/platform

• Management of your solutions/products' scope, processes and stakeholders
• Monitor adoption measures for processes and applications in your area and propose corrective actions when necessary
• Ensure agile product backlog, roll‑outs, continuous improvement plan and deployments are defined and constantly updated in sync with the global Business Intelligence strategy
• 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 analytics solutions in business processes
• Responsible for gathering and translating business requirements into detailed function specifications and managing requests for changes
• Own the delivery of parts of the projects or programs in your scope and its associated metrics on time and on budget
• Ensure products' deliverables are properly documented and with adequate reference material
• Highlight to solution manager implementation constraints you may sport as well as dependency with other solutions
• Provide management with accurate and timely status reports of all projects/scope as assigned
• Assist business partners in determining how business requirements are integrated into business processes and generate expected outcomes
• 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 data and analytics products
• Support business partners in the test 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 type of role in Analytics projects implementation
• Project management experience in small to medium size projects being able to report status and potential risks
• 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.)
• Previous experience in KPIs definition and storytelling visual analytics implementation will be considered a strong plus
• Previous experience in a client facing role will be considered a plus

• Overall understanding and knowledge of global enterprise data management systems
• Good knowledge of front end and data visualization tools for analytics…