Senior Business Analyst – CTRM Platform

Raw Ventures

. Convert business operations into process models, decision rules, data models, event definitions, state machines, and acceptance criteria .

Posted 9/21/2026full-timeDubai • United Arab EmiratesSeniorWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in modeling business processes, defining data models, and specifying integration contracts within commodity trading and finance. Proficient in producing structured design artifacts and managing change in a technology-driven environment.

Highest-signal resume keywords

Business Process ModelingData ModelingCommodity Trading KnowledgeFluent in English and RussianExperience with CTRM Systems

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Hard Skills

Process ModelsEntity-Relationship ModelsState DiagramsDecision TablesFunctional SpecificationsData FlowsTrade Finance UnderstandingRisk Management FunctionsCommercial AnalysisEvent-Driven Architecture

Soft Skills

Stakeholder EngagementDocumentation PrecisionChange Management

Tools & Technologies

BPMNLLMsAutomation Tooling

Industry Keywords

Physical Commodity TradingEnergy MarketsOil LogisticsCrude ProductsLNG FlowsPricing DataShipping Exposure

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Microservices

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Convert business operations into process models, decision rules, data models, event definitions, state machines, and acceptance criteria
Model business processes across Trading, Finance, Logistics and Risk as structured process definitions
Define the business entity model and data dictionary, including entities, attributes, relationships, identifiers, cardinality, and lifecycle ownership
Specify state models for core commodity trade lifecycle objects, including valid transitions and triggering events
Maintain a business rules catalogue covering conditions, decision tables, tolerances, thresholds, and owners
Write functional specifications and acceptance criteria for engineering implementation
Translate operational workflows into validations, calculations, allocations, postings, and automated decisions
Specify integration contracts and data flows between trading, finance, and external systems
Work with architects and engineers through build and test to validate delivered behaviour
Run design decisions to closure, document trade-offs, risks, decisions, assumptions, open items, and change requests
Prioritise releases and sequence scope according to business value and technical dependency
Elicit requirements from business stakeholders and reconcile them with industry best practices
Present designs and recommendations to senior trading and operations stakeholders
Design change-management elements including role definitions, controls, adoption safeguards, and spreadsheet migration
Design AI-enabled and automated commercial workflow steps such as document extraction, validation, drafting, and anomaly detection, with mandatory human-decision boundaries

Requirements

What you’ll need

Experience in a large technology organisation (product, platform or engineering environment) with exposure to formal system design practice
Experience in a top-tier management consultancy or equivalent professional services environment
Experience with physical commodity trading, energy markets or CTRM systems
Fluent in both English and Russian (mandatory)
Deep working knowledge of the physical deal lifecycle
Understanding of trade finance and accounting interfaces: prepayments, invoicing, accruals, letters of credit, treasury and statutory reporting boundaries
Understanding of oil logistics of commodity trading
Demonstrable ability to produce structured design artefacts — process models (BPMN or equivalent), entity-relationship and data models, state diagrams, decision tables, interface specifications
Comfort working directly in an engineering delivery cadence: backlog, refinement, acceptance, release
Precision with terminology and versioned documentation
Strong commercial and financial analysis capability applied to system design questions
Location: Dubai, alternatively remote with regular travel to Dubai to work alongside the client's trading and operations team
Crude, refined products or LNG flows specifically
Risk management functions: exposure, credit limits, position management, VaR
Pricing and reference data: Platts, Argus, ICE, forward curves, netbacks
Event-driven or microservices architecture experience; familiarity with event sourcing
Experience with CTRM platforms as implementation lead, BA or power user
Hands-on use of LLMs and automation tooling in a commercial delivery context
Chartering or shipping S&P exposure

Benefits

Comp & perks

Direct influence over the architecture and roadmap of a trading platform being built from the ground up
High ownership: you define the design, you defend it, you see it built