Job Role: Trading Business Analyst
Location: London (with adhoc travel)
Career Level: Level 8 (Associate Manager)
Salary: Competitive, plus benefits.
Company Background
Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology, and operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services. We combine unmatched experience and specialized capabilities across more than 40 industries. With 650,000+ people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture brings continuous innovation to help clients improve their performance and create lasting value across their enterprises.
We believe in inclusion and diversity and supporting the whole person. Our core values comprise of Stewardship, Best People, Client Value Creation, One Global Network, Respect for the Individual, and Integrity.
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 identifying system improvements
* Troubleshooting issues related to trading workflows
* Ensuring data integrity and facilitating user training
* Generating and presenting 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:
o OTC transactions - Including forwards, swaps, and simple options
o Exchange traded futures & options lifecycle including cascading
* In-depth knowledge of at least one of the following functional areas:
o Trade capture - complex deal modelling and pricing
o Market Risk and risk Valuation
o Back-Office processes
o Accounting processes
o EOD
o Migrating between ETRM systems
* Proficient with OpenLink Endur Base configurations/Reference Data configurations and a 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 of 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 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)
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, colour, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by applicable law.
Job candidates will not be obligated to disclose sealed or expunged records of conviction or arrest as part of the hiring process.
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