Business Analyst

About Quoreka

Quoreka has a formidable presence in the vendor solutions market for metals, energy, and agriculture. Catering a wide range of asset classes, our company utilizes a cloud-based suite of CTRM and ETRM solutions enhanced by AI/ML technology, alongside Supply Chain Management and E-Sourcing products. Today, we boast of extensive CTRM/ETRM expertise across softs, ags, fertilizers/chemicals, liquids, precious metals, concentrates, energy and much more.

Quoreka is able to provide the industry with a very unique offering that meets the growing demands of commodity traders, energy merchants’ miners, industrials to producers providing best-in-class functionality, user experience, technology and services. Our product roadmap is innovation-centric, focusing on AI and delivering strong product value propositions with clear short-term, medium-term, and long-term goals. Quoreka has over 200 employees and offices across the UK, India, Australia, Switzerland and Canada, serving ~100 customers globally across multiple commodity segments.

Position: Business Analyst/Senior Business Analyst

The Business Analyst will be responsible for the features and shape of a particular product family at Quoreka. They will be responsible for working with Product Management team, Marketing team and Pre-Sales team to understand the market needs and involve in product roadmap evaluation along with Product Management team.

Education & Experience:

• 1-3 years of experience in business analysis / product owning with a top tier software product firm with a focus on CTRM (especially in Metals/Ags commodities covering international trading business, domestic business in specific geographies and origination business), ETRM, ERP, supply chain management solutions, or financial applications
• Should have direct responsibility for coming up with software product solutions to business needs in above mentioned areas.
• Experience in implementation of any business application at least at one customer location is desirable.
• Should be creative at conceiving product solutions that allow clients to use our product more efficiently in their business.
• Must be very well conversant with data modeling and should be able to apply the knowledge to propose the data model for new or change in solution.
• Must have excellent skills for working in cross-functional teams of Software Development, Quality Assurance, and Product Support.
• Should have a working knowledge of any of the web technology, preferably J2EE.

• Knowledge of the commodities business and derivates (futures and options) would be an added advantage.
• Exposure to financial integrations, pricing engines, market data providers, risk analytics, and scheduling systems.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Managing the product backlog
• Overseeing development stages and highlighting the risk to stakeholders.
• Acting as primary liaison and closely interacting with engineers and unblocking without any delay
• Speaking to customers and market to understand and detail requirements.
• Assimilate customer and market needs in this area; translating their requirements into product features; writing product specifications.
• Solutioning independently as well as giving directions to solution team preparing solutions for building new product features.
• Preparing / reviewing solutions including workflows, User interfaces, and business logic processing to ensure they meet the product features / specification requirements.
• Controlling the evaluation of data model of the product
• Working with Engineering in the evaluation of product features and trade off.
• Providing internal /external product support and training and contributing to product documentation.
• Involved in product design, co-ordinate in development and release process for assigned products to ensure product development based on the road map laid out by the Product management team.
• Coordinate the collection, description, analysis, and prioritization of requests for new product functionality from customers and prospects.
• Create detailed use cases, business requirements, and marketing requirements.
• Develop hands-on, in-depth knowledge of competitive products and maintain technical analysis of competitive strengths and weaknesses.
• Actively participate in UAT support, feature validation, and release readiness.
• Define and track success metrics and business impact of released features.
• Coordinate beta testing of new products and features. Document and report problems and recommend solutions/improvements to program managers. Participate in product performance benchmarking activities.
• Coordinate with related product partners in implementing interfaces / integration with their products.
• Perform product demonstrations at trade shows, online seminars, and other events.
• Document answers to customer technical questions that cannot be answered by sales staff or product support specialists using existing documentation.
• Adhere to prevailing Eka’s ISMS policies and procedures while delivering the duties.