IT Business Analyst

Main Purpose:

We require an accomplished business analyst with in-depth experience of completing detailed business process analysis and requirement gathering to enable the delivery of complex software development projects.
Within this role, the candidate will be responsible for understand and verifying business cases for change, completing business process analysis, and defining business and functional requirements. This will be executed across multiple projects within the trading division. The candidate will manage relationships and expectations with business stakeholders and sponsors and support development and test teams throughout the entire delivery lifecycle.

Knowledge Skills and Abilities, Key Responsibilities:

• Must have 5+ years experience of Allegro system implementation with natural gas and/or power
• Proven ability to act as a bridge between the business and development team located in other offices, translating business concepts into requirements that are implementable.
• Expected to have 7+ years’ experience of requirements analysis in a commercial environment
• Extensive knowledge and experience in some or all of the following areas:
  • Excellent understanding of natural gas trading and/or power trading
  • Profit and loss, position and risk management (physical & paper)
  • ETRM system implementation, design and configuration
  • Experience with adapting existing systems to new businesses and strategies
  • Experience in data analytics and database SQL knowledge
  • Awareness of software development lifecycle and testing principles
  • Proficient in business analysis techniques and ability to utilize reporting tools (e.g. Qlikview, Business Objects) to provide information for decision analysis
  • Ability to take a systematic & analytical approach to problem solving & pay close attention to detail
• Demonstrable the ability to drive business process changes, challenging current business practices and working with key business process personnel
• Experience of a variety of software development methodologies (e.g. continuous integration, iterative development)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong academic background – excellent degree from a top tier university is required in a subject that demonstrates the need for logical thinking, precise understanding and clear articulation

Key Responsibilities      

• Develop and maintain working relationships with business stakeholders
• Primary responsibility is the determination & clear articulation of business requirements for our North America trading business
• Responsible for clearly articulating target business processes and the business requirements and functional design to enable change.
• Work with the functional architecture team to determine the design of a solution, including screen design & usability to optimise business processes
• Detail story elaboration to enable the system implementation, configuration and/or development
• Support development teams to ensure a solution meets its business requirements.
• Support quality assurance teams to ensure a solution meets its business requirements.
• Support change management and training teams to prepare business stakeholder for process and functional change.
• Provide third line support for production issues.

Key Attitudes / Competencies:

• Delivery focus 
• Team worker, mentorship of junior analysts
• Good communicator & engaging
• Ability to make decisions & thrive in a fast paced environment

Key Relationships and Department Overview:

Reporting into Lead Business Analyst for applicable business lines.