Role: Mandarin-Speaking Business Systems Analyst
Project: Digital Transformation
Industry: Energy Trading
Location: London - Hybrid, 3 days/week in office
Contract: 12 months initial - strong long-term / permanent potential
Rate: £400-435/day (outside IR35)
Overview
X4 Technology are partnered with a high-growth trading organisation undergoing a major multi-year digital transformation, offering the opportunity for a Mandarin-Speaking Business Systems Analyst to join their London technology team in a newly-created, growth-oriented role.
This digital transformation is enterprise-scale and technically-diverse, covering everything from trading systems to AI, data science, modelling and real-time analytics. Key initiatives include trading optimisation, live price forecasting, global market data consolidation, front-office time-series management, curve building, commercial risk and P&L reporting.
You'll gain end-to-end exposure across microservices architecture, system integrations and platform migrations, giving you a broad view across the business, application, data and trading technology landscape.
Day-to-day, you'll work at the heart of these key initiatives to gather, document and own technical requirements through to production, while also getting hands-on with the technologies themselves - investigating system and data issues, querying databases, validating information and working directly with both business users and technical teams across the UK and Far East, using your Mandarin language skills to bridge the two.
This is a role that combines business-facing analysis with genuine technical depth, playing a key role in driving a high-performing digital estate across the organisation's global trading environment.
Responsibilities of the Mandarin-Speaking Business Systems Analyst (Trading)
- Own the requirements lifecycle; engaging global stakeholders to define requirements, shape solutions and translate business needs into clear, actionable work items
- Drive issues through to resolution; troubleshooting complex application and data issues, using SQL/database analysis to identify root causes and deliver fixes
- Connect business and technology; bridging UK business users and Far East engineering teams, ensuring priorities, requirements and technical changes are aligned and delivered effectively
- Own testing and delivery quality; validating enhancements end-to-end, coordinate UAT and ensure changes meet business requirements before production release
- Provide hands-on systems expertise; supporting enterprise platforms and advising users on system functionality, configuration and best practice
Requirements for the Mandarin-Speaking Business Systems Analyst (Trading)
- Experience within Commodities or Energy Trading, covering Business Systems Analysis, Data Analytics, Application Support, or similar
- Strong technical and analytical skills, with hands-on experience querying databases, validating data and troubleshooting application/system issues
- Strong systems mindset, able to understand how applications, data and business processes interact and translate business needs into practical technical solutions
- Fluent Mandarin and English, with the communication skills to operate confidently across business and technical teams who are fluent in either.
Opportunity
This is far more than a traditional Business Systems Analyst or Application Support position. You'll be stepping into a newly created position within a growing technology function, with genuine ownership across business analysis, systems support, data investigation and project delivery, sitting right at the heart of a major digital transformation agenda.
The initial contract is 12 months, with a 3+ year programme roadmap and genuine multi-year scope. Many contractors within the organisation stay for 3-4+ years, with strong potential for permanent conversion in this instance.
It’s an excellent opportunity to build long-term career depth across business, data and trading technology within a sophisticated global environment.
Interview Availability
Immediate interview availability from W/C 24th August, so please apply online for immediate consideration.