Functional Business Analyst

Skillbase Consulting Ltd ,
London, Greater London

Overview

Job Description

Functional Business Analyst We have an immediate opportunity for a functional Business Analyst with experience in the trading systems used to manage the energy portfolio. Purpose · Financial and physical deals capture · Scheduling of physical commodity deliveries · Market data acquisition and controls · Financial and Risk reporting · Back-office controls and quality checks · Invoicing and interfacing with accounting systems The main activities are: · Working in a self-organizing team that covers analysis, development, testing, releasing and support · Challenging and refining business requirements & opportunities · Implement all aspects of an application design - Translate application use cases into functional applications, design, coding, security, error logging, debugging, scalability, code reviews, development environment configuration, delivering and testing · Deliver services to users with the highest level of satisfaction · Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable code, as per high standard of software quality, design and testing principles of the team while delivering solutions on-time and on-budget · Provide workload estimations · Support continuous improvement of the services and applications. Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems · Write and update technical documentations in English and make them available to the team. Provide training to other team members · Work in close collaboration business stakeholders/users and business analysts, architects, other IT development teams · Provide effective and timely communication to all relevant teams Provide effective and timely communication to all relevant teams Expected skills General skills (soft skills) The consultant(s) put forward for this assignment must have sound experience in the activities described above with following key skills: · excellent analytical skills and synthesis spirit · good listening and communication skills · proactive and taking initiative · leading topics by himself until its full achievement · real team player and aware of cross-cultural working · autonomous behavior · fluent in English and in Dutch or French · strongly interested in detailed understanding of front-to-back processes · familiar with the Agile methodology and experienced in SCRUM/KANBAN · Openness for looking "under the hood" Expected technical skills Technical skills required: (by order of priority for the assignment) · .Net Framework: Junior (mandatory) · REST: Junior (mandatory) · SQL: Junior (mandatory) · Python: Junior (mandatory) · PowerBI: Junior (mandatory) · Angular: Junior (mandatory) · VBA: Junior (mandatory) Expected functional skills Functional skills required: (by order of priority for the assignment) Functional skills Seniority Compulsory Good knowledge of physical commodities trading: (biomass, natural gas, LNG, etc.) including logistic aspects (shipping overseas, inland transportation, storages) and financial derivatives (future, forwards, swaps, options, etc.): Experienced (mandatory) · Good knowledge of key indicators such as PnL, MtM, ... to assist business in reconciling economical and accounting PnL: Experienced (mandatory) · Experience in front-to-back trading processes and systems - Multi-commodity : Orchestrade, Allegro, Meteor, OpenLink, Aspects, Aligne or equivalent Shipping: IMOS, Shipnet or equivalent: Experienced (mandatory) · Good understanding of complex information systems, business processes, and software development: Experienced (mandatory) · Proactive, ability to take initiatives in its own area of responsibilities, solution oriented and feedback oriented: Experienced (mandatory) · English Experienced (mandatory) This is based in London or Brussels