Lead Business Analyst

Centrica plc; Aalborg; On-site; DKK 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Centrica Energy, part of Centrica plc, is modernising its Renewable Energy Trading platform as part of a strategic programme. The role spans requirements analysis, design, governance, testing, and business readiness across a complex platform used for PPA and RET& O contracts.

You will partner with stakeholders, product teams, and architects in an agile environment to translate trading requirements into practical platform capabilities and to ensure solution alignment with business objectives.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in energy trading environments and PPA lifecycle.
• Experience designing tools for front-office, middle-office, and back-office trading workflows.
• Proficiency in agile product environments, including writing user stories and backlog refinement.
• Strong knowledge of data flows, master data, and pricing models.

Responsibilities

• Capture and translate business requirements for the target platform across the full solution lifecycle.
• Collaborate with business analysts, developers, and architects in an Agile setting to deliver outcomes.
• Ensure requirements for PPA and RET& O contracts are clearly captured including pricing terms and settlements.
• Align platform design with the Digital PPA strategy and oversee UAT and business readiness activities.

Skills

Energy trading

PPA lifecycle

Front/middle/back-office processes

Agile product environments

User stories & backlog

Stakeholder communication

Tools

ETRM systems

Job description

About your team

At Centrica Energy, our mission is to move it. We’re energy movers by nature. We’re a global renewable energy trading company which helps move energy from source to use – powering businesses, homes, and societies as they transition to a new sustainable energy future. If the idea of working to create a sustainable energy future also moves you, we may very well be the right place for you. Centrica has launched a strategic programme to modernise the trading platform within its Centrica Energy Global trading division. The programme aims to establish a single, scalable platform for Renewable Energy Trading and Optimisation, supporting asset management portfolios, risk and PnL management, and full contract lifecycle management. This role offers the opportunity to contribute to the design and implementation of a greenfield platform, helping consolidate multiple systems into a streamlined target architecture. Working at the heart of the energy transition, you will play a key role in shaping capabilities that support renewable energy trading, customer engagement, settlements, and greater transparency across the PPA lifecycle.

About the Role

Working across business and technology teams, you will be responsible for ensuring that business requirements are accurately captured, translated, and delivered within the target platform. The role spans the full solution lifecycle, from requirements analysis and functional design through to governance, testing, and business readiness. You'll act as a key link between stakeholders, product teams, architects, and developers to ensure solutions support business objectives while maintaining consistency across the platform landscape. In practice, this means you will: Collaborate with business analysts, product software developers, and solution architects in an agile environment to deliver agreed project outcomes. Ensure requirements are clearly captured for PPA and RET&O contracts, including pricing terms, master data, settlement flows, and customer‑facing processes. Align platform design with the strategic objectives of the Digital PPA offering. Apply strong knowledge of workflow and task setup, as well as quantitative pricing models for complex option structures. Support the design and implementation of certificate inventory management capabilities while maintaining ownership of user acceptance testing and business readiness activities.

About You

You bring extensive experience from energy trading environments and a strong understanding of the PPA contract lifecycle and the associated data flows. You are comfortable working across business and technology teams and have the ability to translate complex trading requirements into practical solutions. Alongside strong analytical capabilities, you combine a collaborative approach with excellent communication and stakeholder management skills. To be successful in this role, you will bring:

• A minimum of 10 years' experience in energy trading or a closely related domain.
• Strong knowledge of the deal lifecycle and the end‑to‑end PPA contract lifecycle.
• Proven experience designing tools and functional capabilities for front‑office trading, middle‑office, and back‑office processes.
• Practical experience working in agile product environments, including writing user stories and supporting backlog refinement.
• Experience working with ETRM systems together with strong capabilities in knowledge management, documentation, and stakeholder communication.

About Centrica

We are a global energy trading and optimisation business helping move energy from source to use, connecting producers, suppliers, and offtakers across wholesale energy markets. Operating from eight offices across three continents, we trade power, gas, LNG, and energy attributes while supporting businesses, homes, and societies as they transition towards a more sustainable energy future. Our mission is to drive the green transition while offering sustainable and predictable energy costs for suppliers and offtakers. As one of Europe's largest renewable asset managers, we optimise renewable and flexible assets through advanced market expertise, technology, and around‑the‑clock operations. Our teams work at the intersection of energy markets, data, and innovation, creating solutions that help unlock value, manage risk, and support a more resilient energy system. Guided by the purpose of energising a greener, fairer future, we are committed to building technologies, services, and partnerships that help shape the energy system of tomorrow.

Why should you apply?

We’re not a perfect place – but we’re a people place. Our priority is supporting all of the different realities our people face. Life is about so much more than work. We get it. That’s why we’ve designed our total rewards to give you the flexibility to choose what you need, when you need it, making sure that you and your family are supported not only financially, but physically and emotionally too. Visit the link below to discover why we’re a great place to work and what being part of more means for you. https://www.morethanacareer.energy/centricaenergy If you're full of energy, fired up about sustainability, and ready to craft not only a better tomorrow, but a better you, then come and find your purpose in a team where your voice matters, your growth is non‑negotiable, and your ambitions are our priority.

Help us, help you. We would love for you to share any information about yourself throughout our recruitment process so that we can better understand you and help shape your journey. We’re a family of brands revolutionising how we power the planet. When it comes to energy, no one does it like us. We make it, store it, move it, sell it and mend it. We’re made up of 12 different businesses, but united by our purpose as Centrica. We’re energisers. Our journey to a greener, fairer future is powered by individuals like you. Through innovative green products, intelligent energy solutions and developing smarter ways to use and save energy, we’re not just part of the energy transition, we’re leading it. Our commitment goes beyond sustainability. Together we’re bringing our collective energies to create positive change in our local communities. If you immerse yourself in our fight to change tomorrow, you might just find your why. We’re looking for people to add to our culture – not fit in with it. We're building a community where you can be unapologetically you, where differences are celebrated, and where everyone can belong. Real inclusivity also means supporting the different realities our people face. That’s why we have the UK's best Carers Policy and are continually building our approach to flexibility and wellbeing. Of course, we love having fun too. We’re a people place after all.