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Nair Systems is currently looking for FX and Commodity Hedging Solutions Business Analyst for our Qatar operations Education & Experience Requirements: - Bachelor’s degree from a recognized university, preferably with a major in Finance, Banking, Economics, Accounting, Business Administration, Information Technology, Financial Engineering, or a related field of study. - A master’s degree in Finance, Business Administration, Financial Engineering, or a related discipline is preferred. - Professional certifications in Business Analysis, Financial Markets, Risk Management, Treasury, or Project Management, such as CBAP, PMI-PBA, CFA, FRM, ACI, Agile, or an equivalent certification, are advantageous. - At least 7 years of relevant experience, preferably within a highly rated international bank, with exposure to Treasury, Global Markets, Business Analysis, Product Management, or Banking Transformation. - Experience supporting FX, Commodity, Treasury, Derivative, Structured Product, or Capital Markets initiatives is preferred. - Experience in business requirements gathering, process mapping, solution design, product implementation, testing, and change delivery. - Exposure to trading platforms, treasury systems, digital channels, and front-to-back capital markets processes is advantageous. - Experience working across multiple markets, legal entities, or business functions is preferred. Required Special Skills: - Excellent oral and written communication skills, including report writing, in English. Fluency in Arabic is preferred. - Good interpersonal, facilitation, negotiation, and presentation skills. - Strong understanding of FX, Commodity, Derivative, Structured Product, and corporate risk management solutions. - Knowledge of the hedging lifecycle, trading processes, treasury operations, and front-to-back transaction workflows. - Understanding of relevant laws, regulations, market practices, risk principles, and control requirements. - Strong business analysis skills, including requirements elicitation, documentation (BRD/BRS), validation, prioritization, and traceability. - Proficiency in process mapping, gap analysis, operating-model design, user-story development, and acceptance-criteria definition. - Experience supporting product development, platform implementation, systems integration, user acceptance testing, and business readiness. - Strong analytical skills and the ability to interpret product, client, transaction, revenue, and operational data. - Ability to develop clear dashboards, management reports, business cases, and decision-support materials. - Understanding of automation, digitization, data management, and process optimization principles. - Ability to make sound decisions and follow through with initiatives within delegated authority. - Strong stakeholder-management skills and the ability to work effectively across business, risk, operations, technology, and control functions. - Ability to communicate verbally and in writing with all levels of management. - Ability to operate effectively across Qatar, Turkey, and Egypt and within culturally diverse, cross-functional teams. - Personal integrity, accountability, attention to detail, and effective self-management. - Strong planning, organizing, problem-solving, and analytical abilities. - Results-oriented with the ability to manage priorities, dependencies, risks, and deadlines. - Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications and relevant business-analysis, process-mapping, reporting, and data-visualization tools. Essential Duties & Responsibilities by Dimensions: A. Shareholder & Financial: - analyse market opportunities, client demand, product utilization, and revenue trends to support the expansion of FX and Commodity Hedging capabilities. - Support the preparation of business cases for new hedging products, structured solutions, platform enhancements, and process improvement initiatives. - Develop dashboards and management reports to monitor product adoption, client penetration, transaction activity, revenue performance, and benefits realization. - Provide analytical insights to support product prioritization, resource allocation, and management decision-making. - Monitor delivery against approved business objectives, project milestones, budgets, and expected commercial benefits. - Identify opportunities to improve operational efficiency, automate manual activities, and reduce processing costs across the hedging lifecycle. - Implement KPIs and best practices for the Business Analyst, FX & Commodity Hedging role. - Promote cost consciousness and efficiency and enhance productivity, to minimise cost, avoid waste, and optimise benefits for the Bank. - Act within the limits of the powers delegated to the incumbent. B. Customer (Internal & External): - analyse client requirements, feedback, usage patterns, and service challenges to support the development of relevant FX and Commodity Hedging solutions. - Assist in defining and improving end-to-end client journeys, from client onboarding and trade execution through confirmation, settlement, servicing, and reporting. - Work with Coverage, Global Markets, Treasury, and Product teams to translate client needs into clear business and functional requirements. - Support the development of client-centric digital capabilities and platform enhancements that improve accessibility, transparency, responsiveness, and service quality. - Facilitate stakeholder workshops, requirements-gathering sessions, process reviews, and solution-validation discussions. - Assist customers and internal stakeholders with queries relating to the Bank’s products and seek appropriate solutions to their requests. - Maintain activities in accordance with Service Level Agreements with internal departments and units to achieve improvements in turnaround time. - Build and maintain strong and effective relationships with related departments and units to achieve the Group’s objectives. - Provide timely and accurate data to internal and external Auditors, Compliance, Financial Control, and Risk when required. 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Internal (Processes, Products, Regulatory): - Gather, analyse, document, validate, and maintain business and functional requirements for FX, Commodity, Derivative, and Structured Product capabilities. - Support the implementation and enhancement of hedging products, trading platforms, treasury systems, digital channels, and related technology solutions. - Map, assess, and optimize front-to-back hedging processes covering pricing, execution, confirmation, settlement, collateral, accounting, risk monitoring, and regulatory reporting, as applicable. - Assist in defining target operating models, business processes, control requirements, user journeys, roles, responsibilities, and operating procedures. - Conduct gap analyses to identify product, process, platform, data, control, and service-delivery improvement opportunities. - Support solution design, requirement traceability, user acceptance testing, issue resolution, implementation readiness, and post-implementation reviews. - Coordinate with Global Markets, Treasury, Coverage, Risk, Operations, Technology, Finance, Legal, Compliance, and other relevant stakeholders. - Ensure that b