Principal Business Analyst - Endur

EDF Trading North America, LLC is a major participant in wholesale energy markets and delivers customized energy solutions for our customers.

We operate in every market and provide coast to coast coverage of financial and physical products in power, natural gas and NGLs, environmental products and financial crude oil products.We provide our customers with products and services that deliver access to markets, optimize their energy portfolio, hedge risk and manage assets.Our Wholesale Business operates throughout the value chain in the North American wholesale power markets and we are one of the leading wholesale natural gas marketers. Additionally, we provide environmental, congestion management and value added derivative products.With extensive pipeline agreements, we can manage natural gas offtakes, deliveries, capacities and supply anywhere across the continent.

EDF Trading North America, LLC is part of the EDF Group, a global leader in low-carbon energies.

Job Description:

Job Summary

The Business Analyst will implement solutions to business problems within EDF’s installation of OpenLink Endur.  They will work directly with business users to understand their business processes and their usage of the system, and will leverage their application expertise to design and implement improvements and new functionality in the system to solve business problems.  They will produce documentation to support projects to implement their recommended solutions, which will include requirements documents, use cases, process diagrams, and test plans.   They will also provide general system support for all users of the Endur application, which will include monitoring/resolution of job failures and investigation of trade booking/processing issues reported by users.  This role will require periodic after hours work to support deployments of new functionality and to support the resolution of critical production issues.

Main Responsibilities

Technical Business Analysis

·       Partner with key users, business leads, and project sponsors to understand the needs of the business, document them (via requirements documents, use cases and process diagrams), and determine the appropriate, most cost effective short and long term solutions to meet them.

·       Evaluate user requirements and implement working solutions through system design, analysis, testing, training, and documentation.

·       Perform evaluations of business solutions to identify pain points, process gaps, and incremental enhancements and work collaboratively with them to implement fit of purpose solutions.

·       Serve as an internal point of contact whenever requirements need to be clarified.

·       Interface with development staff during implementation to validate the solution against the requirements.

·       Act as a liaison with business users and the Endur team to resolve technical issues.

·       Ability to read, digest, and communicate complex subject matter to all levels and to influence personnel to accomplish the business purpose.

Project Management

·       Manage projects to successful completion with limited direction – on time, on schedule and within budget.

·       Lead cross functional work groups to identify and document detailed requirements, work flow, information sources and distribution paths and system specifications.

·       Develop project plans including scope, schedule, and resource plans and then monitor and track project status and results to that plan.

·       Proactively communicate, collaborate, and build relationships with business users, IT development and support teams, and with management.

·       Proactively identify, document, and resolve project risks and issues.

·       Provide reliable and informative project updates in project, team and/or steering committee meetings.

·       Act as a liaison with business users and development to resolve issues that arise during development.

Testing

·       Develop and implement test plans based on business requirements.

·       Acquire and/or create test data and business process scenarios.

·       Review/QA applications prior to submission for acceptance.

·       Train users during system acceptance testing.

Implementation

·       Manage implementation of new/upgraded systems for several business cycles, until steady state is reached – including software testing and user training.

·       Ensure full elimination of legacy systems.

·       Develop new business processes, including fallback operation modes.

·       Manage post implementation enhancements.

·       Prepare User Documentation/Operating Procedures as necessary.

Requirements and Qualifications:

·       A minimum of 10 years Endur Business Analysis and design experience.

·       A minimum of a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent professional experience.

·       Working knowledge of energy commodities trading, including:

o   Physical trading of natural gas and power, and the associated logistics processes

o   Derivatives trading, including linear financial instruments and options

o   Credit risk management

o   Market risk management, including VaR

o   Mark-to-market and P&L calculation

o   Confirmations and settlements

o   Regulatory compliance

·       Gas logistics expert, including gas storage, transport, and scheduling preferred.

·       Endur G-Motion experience preferred. 

·       Knowledge of relational database designs and implementations.

·       Desire and aptitude to learn and understand new and emerging technologies.

·       Must have advanced knowledge of MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Project.

·       Competency in Visio or other process diagramming tools desired.

·       Able to meet deadlines with limited supervision. Ability to work well under pressure.

·       The ability to work independently or on a team exhibiting excellent multi-tasking skills.

·       Strong organizational, analytical, as well as oral and written communication skills.

·       Strong sense of ownership and accountability of tasks.

·       A creative, innovative, analytical approach to problem solving is fundamental.

·       Experience in supporting a 7 X 24 hour environment.

·       Willing to travel as necessary.

Note: EDF is an EEO employer

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified candidates will receive consideration for all positions without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

EDF participates in the E-Verify Employment Verification Program.

EDF is not currently accepting unsolicited resumes from search firms. Regardless of past practice, all resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at EDF via-email, the Internet or directly to hiring managers at EDF in any form without a valid written agreement in place for that specific position will be deemed the sole property of EDF. As a result, no fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by EDF.