Senior Business Analyst Lead (ETRM)
Job Description
RESPONSIBILITIES:
\n• Work with the various business departments to ensure their priorities align with current IT deliverables and availability.
\n• Lead project teams to ensure timelines are being met; deliverables are in line with business priorities
\nand solutions remain flexible to evolving future business requirements and not leading to suboptimal development.
\n• Continuously communicate with business partners to understand company priorities and direction and manage expectations.
\n• Continuously communicate with IT to ensure the business is providing the necessary support for
\nprioritized BAU and project work and develop remediation approaches.
\n• Actively identify/design solutions around business inefficiencies, processes and areas of
\nimprovement.
\n• Help identify flaws in the existing processes that could put the company at risk; propose feasible
\nsolutions to reduce residual business and systems risk.
\n• Communicate with business departments to identify solutions or recommendations to make identified processes and controls more efficient, robust, and accurate.
\nQUALIFICATIONS (EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS):
\n1. Education and Certifications:
\n%AA; Degree in Business, Finance, Engineering or process orientated study.
\n2. Experience (Essential):
\n%AA; Prior experience in the energy industry or related experience.
\n%AA; Comprehensive understanding of trading organization set-up e.g. front, middle, back office and
\nassociated standard controls.
\n%AA; Minimum 3 – 5 years’ experience with ION’s Endur ETRM or similar ETRM systems.
\n%AA; Understanding of LNG / natural gas / oil / products marketing activities, including purchase/sales,
\ntransportation, storage and financial transactions.
\n%AA; Modelling and managing of the above deal types within Endur
\n%AA; Understanding of IT development lifecycle (Agile development)
\n%AA; Development and implementation of trading related Key Risk and Performance Indicators.
\n%AA; Experience designing and implementing technical solutions for business efficiency and
\nproductivity.
\n3. Skills:
\n%AA; Excellent communicator with strong written and verbal communications skills as well as
\ninterpersonal and presentation skills, including the ability to effectively work with co-workers of
\nvastly different professional backgrounds as well as external client counterparties and
\nsuppliers e.g. banks and software vendors.
\n%AA; Must be flexible and able to thrive in a fast-paced environment with continually changing
\npriorities. Excellent team player with strong negotiation and influencing skills.
\n%AA; Must be proficient in using systems and software such as MS Office Suite, specifically, Excel
\n(including large data analytics and reporting functionality) and ideally Visio and SharePoint.
\n%AA; Experience in operating and developing Excel VBA macros is preferred. Macros in this context
\nare used to assist in data collation and facilitate efficient KRI reporting.
\n%AA; Ability to own and execute tasks in an organized and structured manner.
\n%AA; Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
\n%AA; Team player and inquisitive and innovative nature.
\n%AA; Ability to manage project timelines and deliverables in a team and/or independent framework.
\n%AA; Understanding database structure, query language, and framework.
\n%AA; Strong understanding of IT code management strategies and tools.
\n%AA; Python and Microsoft Power Platform experience is preferred.
