IT Projects Business Analyst | London | Contract

Contract Role: IT Projects Business Analyst
Contract Location: London 4-5 days onsite each week
Contract Start: Starting ASAP (inside IR35)
Contract duration: End of 2026

Payroll provider: Rockford Payroll Info for Contingent Workers – Rockford Pay

Deloitte are seeking a highly experienced IT Projects Business Analyst to support the expansion of AI-enabled products within the Products Trading organisation.

The successful candidate will be responsible for bridging business and technology teams, translating complex commodities trading business challenges into digital and AI-enabled solutions.

This role requires a seasoned Business Analyst with strong knowledge of Commodities Trading, Products Trading, Supply & Distribution, Logistics, Risk Management, and Commercial optimisation.

Experience working on AI, data, analytics, or digital transformation initiatives is highly desirable.

Critical Success Factors

The ideal candidate will:

• Bring strong industry credibility within Commodities & Products Trading.
  
• Quickly understand complex business challenges and opportunities.
  
• Bridge the gap between business stakeholders and technical delivery teams.
  
• Drive AI adoption through practical business use cases.
  
• Lead analysis across multiple high-priority initiatives simultaneously.
  
• Demonstrate leadership, strategic thinking, and commercial acumen
  

Key Responsibilities

Business Analysis Leadership

• Lead discovery, analysis, process modelling and requirements definition activities across multiple strategic initiatives.
  
• Translate business opportunities and operational challenges into actionable functional and technical requirements.
  
• Facilitate workshops with traders, schedulers, operators, commercial teams, product owners and technology teams.
  
• Define user stories, business processes, capability maps, acceptance criteria and business outcomes.
  
• Drive solution alignment across business, product and engineering teams.
  

Essential Experience (Must Have)

• Extensive Business Analysis experience within Commodities Trading or Energy Trading environments.
  
• Strong knowledge of Products Trading business processes and value chains.
  
• Proven experience working directly with traders, operators, schedulers, planners and commercial stakeholders.
  
• Experience supporting large-scale digital transformation initiatives.
  
• Strong stakeholder management and workshop facilitation skills.
  
• Experience working within Agile product delivery environments.
  
• Excellent communication and leadership capabilities.
  

AI & Digital Product Enablement (Must Have)

• Identify opportunities to leverage AI and Generative AI capabilities within trading and commercial workflows.
  
• Work closely with AI engineers, data scientists, and developers to define and deliver AI-enabled solutions.
  
• Support product discovery, MVP definition, and scaling of successful AI products.
  
• Translate business use cases into requirements suitable for AI and Large Language Model (LLM) based solutions.
  
• Evaluate business value and adoption opportunities for AI-enabled products.
  

Stakeholder Management (Must Have)

• Partner with senior stakeholders across Trading & Supply, Products, Commercial and Technology organisations.
  
• Build trusted relationships across global teams.
  
• Communicate effectively with both business and technical audiences.
  
• Influence decision-making and drive alignment across multiple delivery teams.
  

AI & Data (Must Have)

• Experience delivering AI, Machine Learning or Advanced Analytics solutions.
  
• Understanding of Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs).
  
• Experience converting business requirements into AI use cases.
  
• Familiarity with AI product lifecycles and adoption challenges.
  

Commodities & Products Trading Expertise (Great To Have)

• Provide subject matter expertise and analysis across areas such as:
  
• Refined Products Trading
  
• Crude Trading
  
• Deal Capture & Trade Lifecycle Management
  
• Commercial Operations
  
• Scheduling & Logistics
  
• Inventory Management
  
• Supply & Distribution
  
• Blending & Optimisation
  
• Risk & Exposure Management
  
• Margin & P&L Analysis
  
• Trading Analytics & Decision Support
  
• Front, Middle and Back Office Processes
  

Leadership & Mentoring(Good To Have)

• Provide guidance and coaching to junior and mid-level Business Analysts.
  
• Establish best practices for business analysis and requirements management.
  
• Contribute to capability development within the BA community.
  
• Act as a trusted advisor on complex business and technology initiatives.
  

Trading Platforms & Technologies (Good To Have)

Experience with one or more of the following:

• Endur
  
• Allegro
  
• Openlink
  
• RightAngle
  
• SAP
  
• Veson
  
• Trading Data Platforms
  
• Commodity Risk Management Systems