Senior Business Analyst/Product Owner - Front Office applications

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.

Our Digital Technology & Analytics (DT&A) Front Office Team is looking for a Senior Business Analyst/Product Owner for our Front Office Services line to be based in Lyon.

As part of a dynamic and agile team, you will act as change booster and lead business process transformation in the domain, working on our International Trade and Execution Front Office solution (ATLAS Grains & Oilseeds) and modernization of regional Front Office solutions

These solutions are the cornerstone of our trading systems. Interlinking all our core business functions (Trading, Execution, Accounting, Treasury, Controlling), with a global presence spread all around the world, accessing the application 24/7.

Main Responsibilities:

• Act as Senior Business Analyst and Lead Product Owner (scrum agile methodology)
  • Gather and translate business requirements into detailed functional and technical specifications.
  • Assess how the requirements fit in the business process landscape and how they can be incorporated in the Core Model.
  • Ensure documentation is up to date.
  • Actively communicate with team members, IT Project Manager and Software Developer Lead about the work and project status.
  • Lead the delivery of a development software scrum team
• Participate in the core team 3rd level support and expert
  • Actively escalates issues to Service Manager and Software Developer Lead.
  • Analyze and troubleshoot system issues in 2nd or 3rd level depending on project requirements, liaise with network administrators, system analysts, and software engineers to assist in resolving problems with software products or company software systems.
  • Help support the business in the creation and reporting of the test cases and in their data/systems migrations.
  • Support regions in their Change Management and Adoption processes.
  • Deployment and Rollout of  our Front office system - ATLAS.
  • Analyze, Clean-up and Migrate Master Data and Transactional data from Legacy to Target systems.

• 3-5 (plus) 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 business systems
• Experience in participating in cross-functional project teams’ environment; 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
• Experience with functional and technical aspects of major enterprise business systems and related technologies
• Business analysis, story writing, backlog management.
• Incident analysis and incident management.
• Enhanced query with SQL.
• Understanding of basic (API) data integration and database (SQL) concepts.

Other Skills:

• Ability to move easily across different projects and initiatives, to prioritize and manage many open cases at one time.
• Curiosity and eagerness for exploring and understanding complex business processes.
• Deep critical thinking attitude to be able to manage ambiguity and complexity comfortably.
• Quick learner on new domains, ramp up on knowledge curve easily, ability to work independently and with little prompting.
• Inclination to make improvements, find new ideas and challenge the status quo.
• Excellent in execution with natural sense of duty and urgency to drive the change.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills (in English); French is a plus
• Strong analysis, synthesis, and communication capacity (written and oral), ability to negotiate and influence both internally and externally.

Additional Information for the job

What We Offer

We provide a dynamic and stimulating international environment, which will stretch and develop your abilities and channel your skills and expertise with outstanding career development opportunities in one of the largest and most solid private companies in the world.

Our Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits

• Flexible working

• Access to Training and Development

• Discretionary Bonus

• Profit Sharing plan

• Lunch vouchers

• Public transportation refund 

• Workers council social benefits

• Legal annual paid leave + up tp 14 days RTT

Diversity & Inclusion

LDC is driven by a set of shared values and high ethical standards, with diversity and inclusion being part of our DNA. LDC is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity, equity and inclusion.

LDC encourages diversity, supports local communities and environmental initiatives. We encourage people of all backgrounds to apply.

Sustainability

Sustainable value is at the heart of our purpose as a company.

We are passionate about creating fair and sustainable value, both for our business and for other value chain stakeholders: our people, our business partners, the communities we touch and the environment around us