Senior Business Analyst Lead (ETRM)

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Work with the various business departments to ensure their priorities align with current IT deliverables and availability.
• Lead project teams to ensure timelines are being met; deliverables are in line with business priorities and solutions remain flexible to evolving future business requirements and not leading to suboptimal development.
• Continuously communicate with business partners to understand company priorities and direction and manage expectations.
• Continuously communicate with IT to ensure the business is providing the necessary support for prioritized BAU and project work and develop remediation approaches.
• Actively identify/design solutions around business inefficiencies, processes and areas of improvement.
• Help identify flaws in the existing processes that could put the company at risk; propose feasible solutions to reduce residual business and systems risk.
• Communicate with business departments to identify solutions or recommendations to make identified processes and controls more efficient, robust, and accurate.

QUALIFICATIONS (EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS): 1.

Education and

Certifications

• Degree in Business, Finance, Engineering or process orientated study. 2.

Experience (Essential)

• Prior experience in the energy industry or related experience.
• Comprehensive understanding of trading organization set-up e. g. front, middle, back office and associated standard controls.
• Minimum 3 – 5 years’ experience with ION’s Endur ETRM or similar ETRM systems.
• Understanding of LNG / natural gas / oil / products marketing activities, including purchase/sales, transportation, storage and financial transactions.
• Modelling and managing of the above deal types within Endur
• Understanding of IT development lifecycle (Agile development)
• Development and implementation of trading related Key Risk and Performance Indicators.
• Experience designing and implementing technical solutions for business efficiency and productivity. 3.

Skills

• Excellent communicator with strong written and verbal communications skills as well as interpersonal and presentation skills, including the ability to effectively work with co-workers of vastly different professional backgrounds as well as external client counterparties and suppliers e. g. banks and software vendors.
• Must be flexible and able to thrive in a fast-paced environment with continually changing priorities.

Excellent team player with strong negotiation and influencing skills.

• Must be proficient in using systems and software such as MS Office Suite, specifically, Excel (including large data analytics and reporting functionality) and ideally Visio and Share Point.
• Experience in operating and developing Excel VBA macros is preferred.

Macros in this context are used to assist in data collation and facilitate efficient KRI reporting.

• Ability to own and execute tasks in an organized and structured manner.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Team player and inquisitive and innovative nature.
• Ability to manage project timelines and deliverables in a team and/or independent framework.
• Understanding database structure, query language, and framework.
• Strong understanding of IT code management strategies and tools.
• Python and Microsoft Power Platform experience is preferred.