AI Business Analyst | London | Contract

Contract Role: AI IT Projects Business Analyst Contract Location: London 4-5 days onsite each week Contract Start: Starting ASAP (inside IR35) Contract duration: End of 2026

Payroll provider: Rockford Payroll Info for Contingent Workers – Rockford Pay

Deloitte are seeking a highly experienced AI IT Projects Business Analyst to support the expansion of AI-enabled products within the Products Trading organisation.

The successful candidate will be responsible for bridging business and technology teams, translating complex commodities trading business challenges into digital and AI-enabled solutions.

This role requires a seasoned Business Analyst with strong knowledge of Commodities Trading, Products Trading, Supply & Distribution, Logistics, Risk Management, and Commercial optimisation.

Experience working on AI, data, analytics, or digital transformation initiatives is highly desirable.

Critical Success Factors

The ideal candidate will:

• Bring strong industry credibility within Commodities

& Products Trading.

• Quickly understand complex business challenges and

opportunities.

• Bridge the gap between business stakeholders and

technical delivery teams.

• Drive AI adoption through practical business use

cases.

• Lead analysis across multiple high-priority

initiatives simultaneously.

• Demonstrate leadership, strategic thinking, and

commercial acumen

Key Responsibilities

Business Analysis Leadership

• Lead discovery, analysis, process modelling and

requirements definition activities across multiple strategic initiatives.

• Translate business opportunities and operational

challenges into actionable functional and technical requirements.

• Facilitate workshops with traders, schedulers,

operators, commercial teams, product owners and technology teams.

• Define user stories, business processes, capability

maps, acceptance criteria and business outcomes.

• Drive solution alignment across business, product and

engineering teams.

Essential Experience (Must Have)

• Extensive Business Analysis experience within

Commodities Trading or Energy Trading environments.

• Strong knowledge of Products Trading business

processes and value chains.

• Proven experience working directly with traders,

operators, schedulers, planners and commercial stakeholders.

• Experience supporting large-scale digital

transformation initiatives.

• Strong stakeholder management and workshop

facilitation skills.

• Experience working within Agile product delivery

environments.

• Excellent communication and leadership capabilities.

AI & Digital Product Enablement (Must Have)

• Identify opportunities to leverage AI and Generative

AI capabilities within trading and commercial workflows.

• Work closely with AI engineers, data scientists, and

developers to define and deliver AI-enabled solutions.

• Support product discovery, MVP definition, and scaling

of successful AI products.

• Translate business use cases into requirements

suitable for AI and Large Language Model (LLM) based solutions.

• Evaluate business value and adoption opportunities for

AI-enabled products.

Stakeholder Management (Must Have)

• Partner with senior stakeholders across Trading &

Supply, Products, Commercial and Technology organisations.

• Build trusted relationships across global teams.

• Communicate effectively with both business and

technical audiences.

• Influence decision-making and drive alignment across

multiple delivery teams.

AI & Data (Must Have)

• Experience delivering AI, Machine Learning or Advanced

Analytics solutions.

• Understanding of Generative AI and Large Language

Models (LLMs).

• Experience converting business requirements into AI

use cases.

• Familiarity with AI product lifecycles and adoption

challenges.

Commodities & Products Trading Expertise (Great To Have)

• Provide subject matter expertise and analysis across

areas such as:

• Refined Products Trading

• Crude Trading

• Deal Capture & Trade Lifecycle Management

• Commercial Operations

• Scheduling & Logistics

• Inventory Management

• Supply & Distribution

• Blending & Optimisation

• Risk & Exposure Management

• Margin & P&L Analysis

• Trading Analytics & Decision Support

• Front, Middle and Back Office Processes

Leadership & Mentoring(Good To Have)

• Provide guidance and coaching to junior and mid-level

Business Analysts.

• Establish best practices for business analysis and

requirements management.

• Contribute to capability development within the BA

community.

• Act as a trusted advisor on complex business and

technology initiatives.

Trading Platforms & Technologies (Good To Have)

Experience with one or more of the following:

• Endur

• Allegro

• Openlink

• RightAngle

• SAP

• Veson

• Trading Data Platforms

• Commodity Risk Management Systems