Lead Business Analyst - SE Trading

Shell; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job description

What’s the role

Shell Energy, a key part of Shell’s Trading & Supply division, focuses on natural gas, power, LNG, and environmental products markets through major hubs in London, Houston, Dubai, Singapore, and Brisbane.

We are at the forefront of the energy transition, driving Shell’s ambition to provide more and cleaner energy solutions in a dynamic and challenging environment.

Our global team brings extensive energy marketing and trading experience, deep market knowledge, and a thorough understanding of supply chains. This expertise enables us to innovate and develop tailored energy solutions and products, helping our customers decarbonize their businesses.

As a member of Shell Energy Analysis & Design CC, you will work as an SME closely with business and IT stakeholders to define and shape future solutions within the Gas & Power portfolios. This role demands extensive experience in Commodity Trading and Trading Operations within the Gas sector. A thorough understanding of both intrinsic and extrinsic factors affecting complex valuations and modelling is essential.

What you’ll be doing

As a Lead Energy Trading Business Analyst and SME in the domain, you will be aligned with a specific commodity (Power, Gas, or Environmental Products) and/or a specific functional area (such as Front, Middle, or Back-Office). You will be responsible for leading the identification and documentation of business needs, starting with problem statements, collaborating with technical teams to explore feasible solution options. In the strategic ETRM program, you will oversee the business analysis activities for your workstream from inception through to delivery.

Your role will vary depending on the specific area of expertise; however, typically you would perform the following day-to-day activities:

• Interacting with traders/ desks on challenges needs, working within IDT stakeholders on business case and opportunity shaping
• Planning, delivery, and assurance of business analysis deliverables on multiple programmes
• Driving and managing scope and design for a workstream, including assessing the risks, feasibility, opportunities, and business impacts of various solution options
• Point of escalation for issues within your workstream
• Coaching and mentoring of the wider business analysis team
• Generating innovative approaches to existing problems or new opportunities
• Stakeholder management - building relationships with key stakeholders, keeping them informed and managing expectations

What you bring

As a Business Analyst with substantial experience in Energy Trading that seeks a significant challenge and an opportunity to grow their careers as part of a team intent on pushing the boundaries of Energy Trading and Risk Management. That team sits at the core of an industry leading organisation at the very heart of the energy transition, helping to ensure a brighter future for everyone.

• Proven track record of delivering projects through the entire lifecycle
• Expertise in shaping processes and solutions, including capturing business problems, value drivers, and functional/non-functional requirements
• Strong leadership, analytical skills, and change management capabilities
• Demonstrable stakeholder management skills, confidently engaging with stakeholders at various organizational levels and providing legitimate challenges
• Experience in performing quality assurance roles on workstream deliverables
• Proficiency in Agile and DevOps delivery
• Great Team Player and ability to adapt, change and learn quickly
• Strong business analysis techniques and skill sets – design thinking, requirements and needs analysis, planning & monitoring, behavior driven development, business case writing, external market research analysis, business process modelling, wireframing, estimation techniques, data analysis/analytics but not limited to.

Energy Trading Experience

• You must have extensive experience in energy trading markets, with a strong understanding of one of the following markets considered an advantage:
• European Power, European Gas, and/or Environmental products.
• Hands-on and substantial knowledge of different trading instruments, including:
• OTC transactions – forwards, swaps, and simple options.
• Exchange-traded futures & options lifecycle, including cascading.
• Substantial knowledge of the following functional areas:
• Trade capture – complex deal modeling and pricing.
• Market Risk
• Risk Valuation
• Back-Office processes
• Accounting processes
• Migrating between ETRM systems

ETRM/CTRM Experience

• Ideal candidates will have extensive hands-on ETRM/CTRM experience.
• Endur skills are considered a must, as this program offers a fantastic opportunity to build or grow skills in this area.
• Hands-on configuration experience with vendor applications is also considered an advantage.
• Experience with Integration technologies and approach with ETRM systems is a must

What we offer

You bring your skills and experience to Shell and in return you work with talented, committed people on one of the most important challenges facing our planet. You’ll have the opportunity to develop the skills you need to grow in an environment where we value honesty, integrity, and respect for one another. You’ll be able to balance your priorities as you become the best version of yourself.

• Progress as a person as we work on the energy transition together.
• Continuously grow the transferable skills you need to get ahead.
• Work at the forefront of technology, trends, and practices.
• Collaborate with experienced colleagues with unique expertise.
• Achieve your balance in a value-led culture that encourages you to be the best version of yourself.
• Benefit from flexible working hours, and the possibility of remote/mobile working.
• Perform at your best with a competitive starting salary and annual performance-related salary increase – our pay and benefits packages are among the best in the world.
• Take advantage of paid parental leave, including for non-birthing parents.
• Join an organization to become one of the most diverse and inclusive in the world. We strongly encourage applicants of all genders, ages, ethnicities, cultures, abilities, and life experiences to apply.
• Grow as you progress through diverse career opportunities in international teams.
• Gain access to a wide range of training and development programmes.