Business Analyst (ETRM)

About us:

We are not just any energy and sustainability group; we're a dynamic, award-winning powerhouse. At the forefront of environmental innovation, we lead the charge in providing cutting-edge solutions for large-scale energy consumers.

From guiding small business to corporate giants on their journey to achieve net zero emissions to expertly managing risks and supplying vital power and gas resources, we do it all. But wait, there's more! We're not content with just excelling in our current ventures - we thrive on pioneering new businesses and seizing energy investment opportunities.

The Role

As an experienced IT Business Analyst within the Energy Trading Risk domain, you will be involved in the delivery of a key global transformation programme. As a member of the product team, working autonomously and within a team, you will play a pivotal role working with business stakeholders and technical teams alike in driving change and efficiency across the organisation.

Essential functions of the job:

Business Analysis & Delivery:

• Plan, deliver, and assure business analysis deliverables for workstreams.

• Drive and manage scope and design for workstreams, assessing risks, feasibility, opportunities, and business impacts of various solutions.

• Lead business requirement gathering and documentation for prioritized enhancements, projects, and defects in the change management repository

• Ensure solutions meet design-to-operate principles and plan effective transitions to operations.

Stakeholder Management:

• Build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders, keeping them informed and managing expectations.

• Ensure transparent communication with business collaborators throughout the lifecycle of change and release management processes.

• Maintain and build key relationships with external IT teams and internal business collaborators.

Innovation & Improvement:

Generate innovative approaches to existing problems or new opportunities.

Standardize and reinforce processes for eliciting requirements, designing, and validating system functionality.

Ensure solutions deliver benefits aligned with longer-term strategic goals.

Technical & Coordination:

• Operate as a Business Analyst across functions, translating business needs into functional designs for technical teams.

• Capture and prioritize features and functionality within the delivery backlog.

• Ensure developed items meet business requirements before formal release management cycles.

Change Management:

• Participate in backlog grooming activities as part of scrum prioritization.

• Coordinate change across different delivery teams, managing conflicting priorities.

• Ensure strategic alignment with IT projects, goals, and architecture.

• Manage functional delivery through various digital disciplines, securing business sign-off for solutions.

Skills required:

• Extensive experience with the modelling of energy derivatives, both OTC and exchange-traded, including delta 1 derivatives, vanilla and exotic options

• Detailed knowledge of financial risk metrics and the associated calculation

• Experience operating within commodities and/or financial markets and associated Trading processes

• Utilisation of data driven analysis and modelling to prototype problem solutions

• Experience working in and around ETRM applications and specialist risk modelling software

• Exposure to the full trade lifecycle with a focus on trade valuation & risk management.

• Demonstrable experience of coordinating complex change

• Delivered change under both waterfall and agile SDLC methodologies

The CF Group is committed to ensuring equal opportunities, fairness of treatment, dignity and respect, and the elimination of all forms of discrimination in the workplace for all employees/contractors and job applicants.