Commodities Business Analyst

As a team lead Commodities Business Analyst, you'll be the first point of contact between the business and other IT teams. You will provide direction and manage key deliveries as per business requirements. Additionally, you will be responsible for organizing and managing business prioritization of deliveries, with the ability to communicate at different levels of management.

Working on projects for the Oil & Gas front office, you will be responsible for providing the business (Commodities Market) with flexible, scalable, and tailored user software applications where proximity developments and resources are necessary.

Main stakeholders will include, but not be limited to, Front Office (trading, sales, and structuring). The team also provides control and support teams where necessary (Middle office, Risk). The role is hands-on and will develop and manage some of the projects from initiation to delivery. Main development is around pricing tools, market data internal contribution, risk management tools, and reporting tools.

Main developments:

• Pricing tools for all commodity assets (energy, metals, carbon emissions, indexes, gas)
• Market data (real-time contribution, end of day) for the same assets
• Risk reporting (strike maps, scenario reporting)
• Reporting for support functions (deal valuation, market data)

The team will also ensure support and maintenance of all its development and work within an agile framework.

Provide the business with software applications:

• Following in-house proximity development lifecycle comprising the following steps:
• User needs collection and anticipation.
• Analysis of these needs and definition of the required specifications.
• Multiple solutions proposal: where applicable, provide the sponsors with studies comparing the different options and solutions to facilitate strategic decision-making.
• Implementation and delivery of retained solutions.
• Support and documentation.
• Bug tracking, continuous software evolution.
• Make recommendations regarding architecture, technologies, and IT solutions.
• Analysis, problem solving, and escalation.
• As part of the global proximity development team, transpose and follow its software development standards, methodologies, and procedures.
• Cooperate with CM IT Quants, MOA, MOE, and other relevant teams.
• Carry out training and skills assessments at regular intervals.