Head of Business Analysis & Trading Technology

Vallum Associates; Slough; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance bonus 15-20%

Market-leading pension

Comprehensive benefits package

Hybrid working

London office access

Job summary

Vallum Associates seeks an Analysis Manager to lead a senior BA team across energy trading technology and ETRM programmes. You will shape capability, coach leaders, and challenge requirements with senior stakeholders, balancing trading urgency with risk and sustainable delivery.

The role combines leadership with technical credibility in energy trading and ETRM platforms, and collaborates with Trading, Risk and Technology to drive multi-year transformation.

Qualifications

• Senior leader with direct line management of Business Analysts.
• Experience delivering analysis across energy trading, ETRM, and change programmes.

Responsibilities

• Directly manage, coach and develop a team of experienced Business Analysts.
• Set objectives, conduct performance reviews and support individual career development.
• Build a strong and consistent Business Analysis capability across Trading Technology.
• Establish and improve BA standards, tools, governance and ways of working.
• Allocate work effectively across the team, balancing business priorities and delivery capacity.
• Review and challenge requirements, process designs, user stories and other BA outputs.
• Ensure knowledge is shared across the team and does not sit with individual subject-matter experts.
• Support the recruitment and development of additional Business Analysts when required.
• Work closely with senior Trading, Risk, Operations and Technology stakeholders.
• Translate complex commercial, operational and regulatory requirements into clear technology deliverables.
• Support major ETRM and trading-platform transformation programmes.
• Oversee technology change relating to new products, markets and trading capabilities.
• Partner with Project Managers, Developers, Architects and third-party technology providers.
• Manage competing priorities between Trading, Risk and Technology teams.
• Ensure technology solutions are controlled, sustainable and aligned with wider business objectives.

Skills

Line management

People leadership

Stakeholder mgmt

Coaching

BA governance

ETRM knowledge

Energy trading knowledge

Team leadership

Tools

OpenLink Endur

Allegro

RightAngle

ETRM platforms

Job description

Vallum Associates seeks an Analysis Manager to lead a senior BA team across energy trading technology and ETRM programmes. You will shape capability, coach leaders, and challenge requirements with senior stakeholders, balancing trading urgency with risk and sustainable delivery.

The role combines leadership with technical credibility in energy trading and ETRM platforms, and collaborates with Trading, Risk and Technology to drive multi-year transformation.