Job Role: Trading Business Analyst

Location: London (with adhoc travel)

Career Level: Level 8 (Associate Manager)

Salary: Competitive, plus benefits. 

Company Background

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We are seeking an experienced Trading Business Analyst to join our team and support energy and commodities trading firms in optimizing the Endur trading platform. You will work closely with traders, risk managers, and IT teams to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of the platform in trading, risk management, and back-office operations

In this role you will be:

• Analyzing business requirements

• Configuring Endur functionalities and identify system improvements

• Troubleshooting issues related to trading workflows

• Ensure data integrity and facilitate user training

• enerate and present reports to key stakeholders

We are looking for experience in the following areas:

Business Analysis / Project Delivery Experience

• Proven experience in end-to-end project delivery and business analysis

• Strong BA experience including capturing business problems, value drivers and functional/non-functional requirements

• Experience running workshops and user acceptance testing

• Strong stakeholder management skills

• Experience working in Agile project delivery

Energy Trading & Endur Experience

• Experience of energy trading markets, with a strong understanding of one of the following markets:

• UK& European Power, UK & European Gas and/or Environmental products

• A working knowledge of different trading instruments, including:

  • OTC transactions – Including forwards, swaps, and simple options

  • Exchange traded futures & options lifecycle including cascading

• In-depth knowledge of at least one of the following functional areas

  • Trade capture - complex deal modelling and pricing

  • Market Risk and risk Valuation

  • Back-Office processes

  • Accounting processes

  • EOD

  • Migrating between ETRM systems

• Proficient with OpenLink Endur Base configurations/Reference Data configurations and the good understanding of the various managers in the tool.

• Endur configuration for Deal lifecycle, Confirmations, Settlement invoicing and scheduling

• Experience in establishing and delivering progressively larger and more complex projects/services

• Domain knowledge and skills in ETRM - mainly Endur (v18 or beyond)

• Knowledge of energy trading and risk management (ETRM) Front Office and Operations business processes

• Knowledge of the energy/commodity trading business – Power, Emissions, Gas, Commodities

• Prior experience of Endur covering end to end trade lifecycle processes with knowledge on technical aspects of integrating with other ETRM’s

• Experience of financial concepts - P&L, MTM, Financial Risk, Financial Instruments (derivatives traded products), settlements etc.

• Strong organisational skills managing multiple workstreams and competing priorities simultaneously

• Experience of line managing resources and project managing teams

• Experience of leading projects embracing the Cloud Technologies (e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP)

• Experience of using different delivery methodologies: Agile (Scrum, Kanban) and Waterfall

Education and Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree or equivalent - STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) majors (preferred but not essential)

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with 774,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at www.accenture.com 

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