<p>We are offering an exciting opportunity to join a Global Middle Office team located in Houston, Texas. This role will primarily focus on physical Power and Gas commodity trading. It will involve processing and reconciling trades, preparing daily reports, and liaising with various stakeholders. </p><p><br></p><p>Responsibilities:</p><p><br></p><p>• Prepare daily Profit & Loss and position reports for multiple businesses, specifically within the North American physical and financial Power & Gas markets.</p><p>• Perform daily reconciliations of trades and positions to maintain data accuracy.</p><p>• Act as a key liaison between the trading desks, ISOs, and FCMs, facilitating smooth operations.</p><p>• Manage static data setups for internal systems, including products and prices.</p><p>• Reconcile exchange and index curves against 3rd party systems to our internal ones to ensure consistency.</p><p>• Comment daily on P& L movements, explaining and critiquing major positions and risks taken by the desk.</p><p>• Liaise with various stakeholders, including market risk, ALM, operations, finance, IT, and business managers.</p><p>• Proactively participate in internal projects to enhance processes and controls.</p><p>• Ensure that processes are continually reviewed and improved, risks are managed, and results meet expectations.</p><p>• Price Futures, Options, and Physical Power & Gas products, maintaining a thorough understanding of market dynamics</p>
<p>Position Summary:</p><p><br></p><p>The Business Analyst (BA) will collaborate closely with the Director of Data Technology, key stakeholders, and business users to identify gaps in existing systems and uncover opportunities for implementing new technologies that align with strategic business objectives. Acting as a bridge between business needs and technical solutions, the BA will facilitate collaborative sessions, proactively remove obstacles, and support all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Additionally, the BA will serve as the administrator for both current and emerging technologies. This role requires a forward-thinking leader who can anticipate data and technology needs, identify potential improvements ahead of business demand, and drive innovation across the organization</p>
<ul><li>Investigates operational requirements, Data Science capabilities, and value at stake, seeking effective business solutions through informational and Machine Learning based data products. Assists in the analysis of stakeholder objectives, and the underlying issues arising from investigations into business requirements and problems, and identifies options for consideration. Works iteratively with stakeholders, to identify potential benefits and available options for consideration, and in defining acceptance tests.</li><li>Contributes to evaluating the factors which must be addressed in the change programme. Helps establish requirements for the implementation of changes in the business process.</li><li>Documents changes based on requests for change. Applies change control procedures.</li><li>Facilitates scoping and business priority-setting for DS initiatives of medium size and complexity. Contributes to selection of the most appropriate means of representing business requirements in the context of a specific DS initiative, ensuring traceability back to source. Discovers and analyses requirements for fitness for purpose as well as adherence to business objectives and consistency, challenging positively as appropriate. Obtains formal agreement by stakeholders and recipients to scope and requirements and establishes a base-line on which delivery of a solution can commence. Manages requests for and the application of changes to base-lined requirements. Identifies the impact on business requirements of interim (e.g. migration) scenarios as well as the required end position.</li><li>Implements stakeholder engagement/ communications plans, including, for example; handling of complaints; problems and issues; managing resolutions; corrective actions and lessons learned; collection and dissemination of relevant information. Uses feedback from customers and stakeholders to help measure effectiveness of stakeholder management. Helps develop and enhance customer and stakeholder relationships.</li><li>Manages Agile backlog and Sprint Planning, including reports for Portfolio Management</li></ul><p><br></p>
We are looking for an experienced Business Analyst III to join our team in Houston, Texas. This long-term contract position involves conducting detailed operational analyses to support strategic decision-making within the business unit. The role requires a proactive individual with both quantitative and qualitative research skills who can manage medium to large-scale projects and improve business processes.<br><br>Responsibilities:<br>• Perform detailed operational analyses to provide actionable insights that support business decisions.<br>• Lead medium to large-scale special projects, ensuring timely delivery and adherence to project goals.<br>• Conduct quantitative and qualitative research to identify trends and opportunities for process improvements.<br>• Design and modify business processes to align with organizational objectives and enhance efficiency.<br>• Develop comprehensive reports using standardized tools and techniques to communicate findings and recommendations.<br>• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement validation plans and ensure compliance with industry standards.<br>• Manage onboarding and staffing processes for contingent workforce needs within the business unit.<br>• Oversee supplier relationships and ensure alignment with organizational requirements.<br>• Apply decision-making expertise to support commission functions and expense account management.<br>• Ensure compliance with regulatory frameworks such as NIS and NERC guidelines.
