Senior Business Analyst in City of London

When you join EDF Trading, you\’ll become part of a diverse international team of experts who challenge conventional ideas, test new approaches, and think outside the box.

Energy markets evolve rapidly, so our team needs to remain agile, flexible, and ready to spot opportunities across all the markets we trade in power, gas, LNG, LPG, oil, and environmental products.

EDF Group and our customers all over the world trust that their assets are managed by us in the most effective and efficient manner and are protected through expert risk management. Trading for over 20 years, it\’s experience that makes us leaders in the field. Energy is what we do.

Become part of the team and you will be offered a great range of benefits, which include (location dependent) hybrid working, a personal pension plan, private medical and dental insurance, bi-annual health assessments, corporate gym memberships, an electric car lease programme, childcare vouchers, a cycle-to-work scheme, season ticket loans, volunteering opportunities, and much more.

Gender balance and inclusion are very high on the agenda at EDF Trading, so you will become part of an ever-diversifying family of around 750 colleagues based in London, Paris, Singapore, and Houston. Regular social and networking events, both physical and virtual, will ensure that you always feel connected to your colleagues and the business.

Who are we? We are EDF Trading, part of the EDF Group – a world leader in low‑carbon, sustainable electricity generation.

Join us, make a difference, and help shape the future of energy.

Job Description

Department

IT Delivery

Position purpose

• Provide business analysis across small/medium sized projects initially in the Gas and Bio Fuels Operations delivery space to help enhance and support applications developed by the team.
• Be a Product Owner for the area you are working in, developing a joint strategic vision with your stakeholder counterparts on how the product landscape will look.
• Use Agile best practices for coordinating delivery of items through the development lifecycle.
• Ensuring all relevant agile ceremonies are conducted with the delivery team and stakeholders i.e. operating in sprint, conducting sprint reviews, backlog refinements, daily standups etc.
• Work under the leadership and direction of the IT Delivery Ops Manager ensuring best industry practise of analysis is applied.
• Write sufficiently detailed requirements in the form product backlog items ensuring sufficient acceptance criteria is provided so that both developers can understand what success means for a backlog item.
• When required assist with new product configuration and testing and provide systems analysis to help resolve third line support issues.

Experience required

• Good understanding of software development lifecycle through practical experiences
• Good understanding of Gas Operations ideally and/or Biofuels and the key responsibilities of these departments
• Practical experiences working in scrum delivery teams
• Good understanding of the physical energy trade lifecycle
• Experience of talking with business users to define requirements or solve problems

Person specification

• We are looking for a strong problem solver with the ability to quickly understand business concepts and translate them with the delivery teams into technical solutions.
• Core to the role and working in this team is having a great attitude. This means being:
• Highly motivated to see small items to large projects complete and \”go the extra mile\” to meet deadlines.
• Enjoying problem solving and use that to try and get over those first hurdles.
• Build strong relationship with both your delivery team as well as customers.
• Takes ownership.
• Desire to continuously learn and improve.
• Ability to work directly with the business teams to define functional requirements and translate complex business requirements to solid backlog items, whilst ensuring business context is fully understood.
• Strong backlog management – this means ensuring the development team has clearly defined stories several sprints ahead.
• Be technically proficient with any tools which enhance ability to perform analysis and solve issues in testing.
• SQL is essential to validate against the database what our users/testers/user interfaces are informing us of.
• Excel.
• Interpreting log files and application insights for issue resolution.
• Able to handle multiple projects/work packages simultaneously – often at different stages of analysis, design or development.
• Be at the forefront of critical production issues.

Hours of work

8.30am – 5.30pm, Monday to Friday however flexibility required.