Senior Business Analyst Lead (ETRM) in Slough

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 SharePoint.

▪ 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.