Energy & Commodity Senior Business Analyst

Orchestrade; London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading fintech software vendor is seeking a Senior Business Analyst for their Energy & Commodity team. The role involves collaborating with clients to analyze business needs, drafting specifications, and ensuring software quality. Ideal candidates will have a strong background in technology and energy trading systems, with excellent problem-solving and communication skills.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in technology or energy space required.
• Experience with object-oriented programming code mandatory.

Responsibilities

• Capture and analyze business requirements with clients.
• Write functional and technical specifications for development.
• Test and validate new developments.

Skills

Analytical Skills

Problem Solving

Communication

Time Management

Education

MS in Mathematics

MS in Engineering

MS in Computer Science

Tools

C#

Job description

Energy & Commodity Senior Business Analyst

Orchestrade

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About Orchestrade

Orchestrade is a highly successful US-based fintech software vendor on an exciting growth journey after significant recent 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 software that supports and addresses 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 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, client implementation, writing functional and technical specifications, testing, and validating developments. The BA team demonstrates a deep understanding of key business aspects, along with detailed knowledge of the underlying technical design concepts of the system, enabling close 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.

Duties/Responsibilities

• Partner with clients to capture, review, and analyze business requirements
• Design, plan, and draft functional development 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 for the development team
• Test and validate new developments
• Ensure the highest software quality for our clients

Requirements

• MS degree in Mathematics, Engineering, Computer Science, or related fields
• Results-oriented, analytical approach with strong entrepreneurial problem-solving skills
• Experience and understanding of object-oriented programming code (C#); ability to read and understand functional code is mandatory. Previous work experience as a developer is a plus
• Energetic, collaborative, and eager to make a positive impact on the company
• Entrepreneurial approach with the ability to work independently 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 of experience working within technology (trading systems) or in the energy space (software vendor or client side) is required
• Proven expertise in at least one of the following areas: simple or complex derivatives (exchange-traded or OTC), market data management, pricing and risk methodologies, middle and back-office processes, electronic trading interfaces