system analyst for commodity trading systems

Luxoft is a technology company providing IT development and digital transformation services. The role supports the implementation and continuous evolution of a Trade Capture System for a large commodity trading company.

• Translate business requirements into clear and actionable functional specifications for IT development teams;
• Analyze existing processes and systems, identify gaps, inefficiencies, and automation opportunities;
• Define business rules, workflows, data requirements, validations, and exception-handling scenarios;
• Support product backlog definition and prioritization with Product Owners and business stakeholders;
• Develop an end-to-end understanding of the trade lifecycle, from execution and capture through confirmation, amendments, settlement, and downstream processing;
• Analyze requirements for commodity products, including power, gas, oil, and metals;
• Understand physical and financial trading concepts and their representation in trading systems;
• Analyze interfaces between the Trade Capture System and ETRM/CTRM platforms, risk systems, market data, scheduling, settlement, accounting, and data platforms;
• Collaborate with Solution Architects, Developers, QA Engineers, and other IT specialists to design system solutions;
• Break complex requirements into user stories, functional specifications, acceptance criteria, and development tasks;
• Participate in solution design reviews and assess the impact of proposed changes on existing functionality and integrations;
• Identify dependencies, risks, and potential impacts across systems and business processes;
• Support SIT, UAT, regression, and end-to-end testing;
• Investigate and analyze defects, distinguish functional and technical issues, and work with developers to resolve them;
• Support business users during UAT and implementation activities;
• Support production issues and participate in root-cause analysis when required;
• Communicate complex functional and technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences;
• Maintain functional specifications, process documentation, data mappings, user stories, and other relevant documentation.

• 5+ Years of experience as a Functional Analyst, Business Analyst, Systems Analyst, or in a similar role within financial markets, commodity trading, energy trading, or another complex trading environment;
• Experience with commodity trading, ETRM/CTRM, trading, risk, or deal management systems;
• Experience translating business requirements into functional specifications and development-ready user stories;
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum or similar software development environment;
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities;
• Experience with system integrations, data flows, APIs, and/or message-based interfaces;
• Experience designing and executing functional and integration test scenarios;
• Ability to analyze complex business processes and translate them into practical system solutions;
• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills;
• Nice to have: Experience in a large commodity trading organization or major energy/commodities company, physical commodity trading and related logistics/scheduling processes, derivatives and financial trading instruments, commodity pricing, curves, market data, valuation, risk, P&L, and settlement processes, REST APIs, messaging platforms, event-driven architectures or middleware, SQL and relational databases, cloud-based platforms, modern software development practices, and experience working with geographically distributed development and business teams.

• Office-based role in Belgrade, Serbia.