Energy & Commodity Senior Business Analyst - UK

Orchestrade, Inc.; London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A fintech software vendor is seeking an Energy & Commodity Senior Business Analyst to join their team in London. This role involves collaborating with clients, capturing business requirements, and contributing to the product frameworks for energy trading solutions. Candidates should have a relevant advanced degree and extensive experience in trading systems, with strong communication and analytical skills. A full-time position offers exciting growth opportunities within the energy sector.

Qualifications

• 5+ years’ experience working within technology or energy space.
• Experience with trading systems and derivatives is essential.
• Strong time management and organization skills.

Responsibilities

• Partner with clients to capture and analyze business requirements.
• Write functional and technical specifications.
• Test and validate new developments.
• Provide necessary training to clients.

Skills

Analytical approach

Problem-solving skills

C# programming knowledge

Excellent communication skills

Education

MS degree in Mathematics, Engineering, Computer Science

Job description

Overview

Orchestrade is a US-based fintech software vendor on an exciting growth journey after significant investment in new products, people, and capabilities. Our software is a modern trading and risk platform used by some of the world’s top banks, hedge funds, energy, and commodity traders to run their investing businesses. We have top-tier energy clients globally and our product team plays a key role in developing the software to support and address the complex business challenges faced by energy market players.

Our headquarters is in the heart of Silicon Valley, with offices in Paris, London, New York, San Mateo, and Singapore.

About the Position

Orchestrade is looking for a new member to join our Energy & Commodity Business Analyst team.

The team continually extends our leading trading, risk, and operations solutions to cover new business cases and traded products & instruments in energy trading across the oil, gas, power, certificates, and metals markets. The team leverages its expertise on commodity and energy derivatives products across the full front-to-back chain: support, maintenance, evolution, and implementation of the commodity and energy framework for our clients.

The role involves participating in business case studies as well as client implementation, writing functional and technical specifications, testing and validating developments. The BA team demonstrates a deep understanding of the key aspects of the business, along with a detailed knowledge of the underlying technical design concepts of the system, allowing for tight collaboration with the development team.

Job Summary

The Business Analyst will support the growth of Orchestrade through research, development validation and direct interaction with clients.

Responsibilities

• Partner with clients to capture, review and analyze business requirements
• Design, plan and draft functional developments specifications that deliver scalable and fast time-to-market solutions solving real world business problems
• Maintain and enhance the energy product framework in the system
• Provide training to clients and internal teams when needed
• Write functional and technical specifications aimed at our development team
• Test and validation of new developments
• Ensure the highest software quality is provided for our clients

Qualifications

• MS degree in Mathematics, Engineering, Computer Science or other related fields
• Results-oriented, analytical approach with strong entrepreneurial problem-solving skills
• Experience and understanding an object-oriented programming code (C#) – the ability to read and understand functional code is mandatory. Previous work experience as a developer is a big plus
• Energetic, collaborative, and seeking to make a positive impact on the company
• Entrepreneurial approach and ability to work alone or in teams with minimal supervision
• Excellent time management and organization skills with a keen eye for detail
• Good communication and presentation skills for client meetings
• 5+ years’ experience working within technology (trading systems) or in the energy space (on software vendor or client side) is a must-have
• Proven expertise in one of the following areas is a must-have: simple or complex derivatives (exchange-traded or OTC), market data management, pricing and risk methodologies, middle and back-office processes, electronic trading interfaces

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Analyst, Engineering, and Customer Service

Industries

• Software Development

Location: London Area, United Kingdom