Business Analyst – Physical Oil Trading Technology

Business Analyst – Physical Oil Trading Technology

Overview

🏢 Company | Commodity Trading Technology, AI, Post-Trade Digitisation

👤 Position | Business Analyst

💻 The Job | Turning physical oil workflows into software products engineers can actually build

🎯 Impact | Physical oil operations, trade lifecycle workflows, logistics automation

🌟 Knowledge | Physical Oil Operations, CTRM/ETRM, Commodity Technology, Scheduling, Product

📍 Location | London / Hybrid

💰 Offer | Competitive salary + benefits

The Role

Physical oil trading still runs on too much email, too many spreadsheets, and too much operational memory sitting in people’s heads.

This company is changing that.

You’ll work on a new AI-driven platform being built for commodity operations desks. Not a dashboard. Not a chatbot. Real workflow automation across scheduling, nominations, document processing, contract checks, vessel movements, and post-trade coordination.

You’ll sit between Product, Engineering, QA, traders, operators, schedulers, and back-office teams.

Your job is to take messy physical oil workflows and turn them into clear, build-ready requirements.

That means understanding the detail: partial loads, STS transfers, demurrage disputes, quality claims, sanctioned counterparty rerouting, laytime, nominations, custody transfer, storage movements, and everything else that makes physical trading harder than it looks from the outside.

If you’ve ever looked at a broken operational process and thought, “this could be so much cleaner,” this will probably interest you.

What You’ll Get

You’ll get close to the people who actually move physical oil: traders, schedulers, operators, originators, and back-office specialists.

You’ll work on software that changes how large energy firms handle real operational work, not just another reporting screen.

And you’ll be joining a product team where your domain knowledge matters. You won’t be there to simply take notes and write tickets. You’ll be expected to challenge, clarify, map the workflow, and help the team build something users can trust.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Turning physical oil trading workflows into user stories, acceptance criteria, process flows, and functional specs
• Running workshops, shadowing users, and mapping trade lifecycle events from execution through settlement
• Working with Product Managers and developers to refine the backlog and break work into deliverable chunks

You’ll also support QA by defining realistic test scenarios around the edge cases that actually happen in commodity operations.

What Makes You A Good Fit

You’ll probably come from one of three backgrounds:

• Business Analyst, Product Owner, or Project Manager in commodities or trading technology
• Oil products operator or scheduler who wants to move closer to product and technology
• CTRM / ETRM specialist with hands-on exposure to physical trade lifecycle workflows

You’ll need to understand physical oil trading from execution through to settlement, including nominations, scheduling, loading, discharge, actualisation, invoicing, demurrage, and settlement.

Exposure to marine, pipeline, rail, truck, barge, or storage movements would be useful.

Experience with systems like Endur, Allegro, RightAngle, or similar would also help.

Useful Experience

You don’t need all of this, but some of it will help:

• Incoterms: FOB, CIF, CFR, DAP
• Benchmarks: Dated Brent, WTI, Argus, Platts
• Charter parties, NOR, SOF, BLs, laytime and demurrage
• Agile delivery, user stories, refinement, demos
• AI document processing, blockchain, DLT, or post-trade digitisation
• REMIT, EMIR, MiFID II, sanctions, compliance, tax, or insurance workflows

Why It’s Worth A Conversation

This is for someone who wants more than a standard BA job.

You’ll be working in a space where domain knowledge is hard to find, the workflows are genuinely complex, and the product is trying to solve a problem the industry has lived with for years.

Physical oil trading is not simple.

That’s exactly why this is interesting.

📅 Interview Process | Intro call > Technical/domain discussion > Final stakeholder meeting

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