Sr. Business Systems Analyst - Oil (Commodity), Purchase, Planning, Trading

Employment Type: Salaried
Work Arrangement:  Hybrid | Relocation package available to eligible candidates

Position Summary:

The Senior Business Systems Analyst (Sr BSA) bridges business needs and technology solutions by leading business analysis, process discovery, requirements definition, stakeholder alignment, testing coordination, and deployment readiness for both small and complex initiatives.

This role has a primary focus on  Oil Trading , supporting the procurement, planning, and financial management of oil commodities, critical to manufacturing operations. The Sr BSA partners closely with Oil Trading, Finance, Revenue Management, Procurement, Supply Chain teams to support business processes that manage positions, demand planning, supply optimization, pricing, and profitability. In SaaS and packaged-platform environments, the Sr BSA applies a fit-to-standard mindset, helping business partners align processes to scalable platform capabilities while ensuring configuration, integrations, data integrity, financial controls, reporting, forecasting, user experience, adoption, and downstream operational impacts are understood and addressed.

As a member of the Business Engagement Team, the Sr BSA serves as a key liaison between business partners, Functional BAs, platform teams, developers, vendors, solution architects, and IT leadership to ensure delivered solutions meet business outcomes and enterprise standards. 

Major Duties and Responsibilities:

Each Senior BSA role is aligned to a specific enterprise value stream and is expected to develop strong end-to-end process knowledge, partner closely with business and IT stakeholders, and help ensure requirements, testing, and solutions support efficient, integrated outcomes across the full lifecycle of that value stream.

The primary focus area for this position is Oil Value Trading. You will lead business systems analysis for the Oil Value Trading value stream, partnering across Commercial, Oil Trading, Supply Chain, Finance, Operations, and IT to improve process rigor, visibility, and solution effectiveness across Oracle Fusion and CTRM platforms.

• Shape Demand: Support and partner in the identification and prioritization of business opportunities / ideas, focusing on long-term strategic goals. Lead the cultivation and refinement of these business ideas into actionable demands including comprehensive business cases.
• Process Analysis: Conduct detailed assessments of current business processes using flowcharts and analytical tools to document and help identify gaps, inefficiencies, bottlenecks, and areas for improvement which can be addressed through the use of technology. 
• Business Requirements: Lead the elicitation and documentation of complex, cross-functional business requirements for corporate and strategic priority initiatives. 
• Quality Assurance: Ensure business requirements are met by partnering with the QA team in blackbox testing and leading UAT efforts, including test strategy, planning, execution, and issue resolution along. Identify potential risks and develop mitigation strategies to ensure project success. Engage in post-implementation reviews to identify lessons learned and drive continuous improvement.
• Stakeholder Communication: Facilitate effective communications between business partners, delivery teams, and executive stakeholders.
• Mentoring and Training: Guide less experienced and new BSA team members. Also work with Training and Development to create effective training media and training plans for end users of solutions.
• Additional responsibilities as assigned.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's Degree in Technology, Engineering, or Business
• 5-10 years of progressively increasing responsibility as a BSA
• Experience supporting supply planning and inventory optimization, including demand forecasting, replenishment planning, and multi-site supply balancing.
• Equivalent business experience, with extensive involvement in process analysis, process design and documentation
• Involvement in complex large scale and high impact projects/platform implementations that add significant business value.
• Experience supporting  Oil Value Trading or commodity trading value streams , including trade capture, scheduling, logistics, settlement, risk, and financial reporting.
• Proven experience performing  end-to-end process analysis for complex, transaction-heavy environments with high controls and data accuracy requirements.
• Experience leading  UAT strategy and execution for trading or finance-related platforms, including coordination with business SMEs and QA teams.
• Hands-on experience with  Oracle Fusion Financials and  CTRM platforms (or similar trading and risk management systems) strongly preferred.

Knowledge and Skills:

• Knowledge in multiple functional areas or be an expert in at least one of the following: Logistics, Product Lifecycle Management, and corporate systems (HR, Commercial, Finance, Supply Chain, and/or Operations).
• Demonstrate deep process knowledge of key end to end processes like Oil Value Trading or Commodity Trading Value Streams.
• Ability to perform system and process analysis duties including flow charting and value stream mapping using process and software documentation tools.
• Strong ability to partner with  Oil Trading, Commercial, Supply Chain, Finance, Operations, and IT to define and deliver integrated trading solutions.
• Hands-on experience with  Oracle Fusion Financials and  CTRM platforms (or similar trading and risk management systems) strongly preferred.
• Strong analytical mindset with attention to process rigor, auditability, and operational reliability.
• Ability to elicit and document requirements related to pricing, exposure, reconciliations, approvals, and financial integration.
• Has direct participation and experience with multiple software platform implementations.
• Prior experience with process improvement methodologies and tools (Kaizen, Six Sigma, Green/Black Belt, etc).
• Understanding of data systems, databases, software development life cycle, and information and application architecture.
• Experience leading the development of UAT and QA testing plans and cases.
• Ability to learn and adapt to new software and technology. 
• Project management skills a plus.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.

Why Join Us:
Ventura Foods innovates and manufactures food solutions for foodservice and retail businesses. We make exclusive products for the world's most iconic restaurants and retailers, we provide ready-to-go product solutions for professional kitchens, and we make consumer brands everyone knows and loves. When you work for Ventura Foods, you get a strong foundation of training, a manager who cares about you and celebrates your success, a safe environment, and challenging work. As part of our team, your future is limited only by how much you’re willing to push yourself to get there. We invest in your growth because you invest in ours.

Ventura Foods offers career growth opportunities as well as competitive compensation and benefits:​

• Medical, Prescription, Dental, & Vision – coverage beginning on your 1st day for eligible employees​
• Profit Sharing and 401(k) matching (after eligible criteria is met)​
• Paid Vacation, Sick Time, and Holidays​
• Employee Appreciation Events​ and Employee Assistance Programs
• Salary Base Range of $103,685.00 - $134,453.55*

*The “base salary range” provided above is a good faith estimate of what we expect to pay for this position in the specified markets. Ventura Foods reserves the right to pay outside of the given range based on a variety of factors including but not limited to: candidate skills and experience, complexity of the job, budgetary factors, and location/geography. Ventura Foods conducts regular reviews of compensation ranges and therefore reserves the right to alter this range at any given time.

Diversity & Inclusion:
Our commitment to a diverse and inclusive environment in which all employees are treated with respect is evident in our company culture and values. We believe that fostering an environment of inclusion and a focus on diversity across our organization is vital to attracting top talent, driving innovation, and meeting the high expectations of our customers in a rapidly evolving global marketplace.

Ventura Foods is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.