Senior Business Consultant – Aspect

ION Group; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job description

Join our Delivery Services team where opportunities are available to grow your consulting skills with award-winning software solutions. ION consultants engage with prominent energy and commodities clients all over the world. Our open roles include the Senior Business Consultant position responsible for contributing to the success of the projects by providing software and industry expertise. Within this role you will participate as a member of a team dedicated to providing world-class implementation services to our clients.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Provide industry and functional advice and troubleshooting in the discovery workshop, design, implementation, testing, and production support of the Product solution for the client’s business needs.
2. Present the Product solution to client users.
3. Support the deliverables of the Technical Consultants by providing business and functional guidance, review, testing, and validation of scripted solutions (reports, plugins, and interfaces) as directed by Product Manager.
4. Consult with client users to determine business requirements and work processes to be addressed by one or more areas of the Product solution.
5. Demonstrate deep knowledge in one or more areas of Product configuration and in one or more energy commodities.
6. Provide guidance to Business Consultants in one or more functional areas of the Product solution.
7. Assist with professional services best practices as directed by Line Manager.
8. Assume hands-on project implementation duties in all phases of the Product implementation, reporting to the Project Manager.
9. Gather and document business requirements, configuration designs, test plans/results, and any other deliverables required by the project as determined by the Project Manager and Lead Business Consultant.
10. Keep Line Manager and Project Manager(s) informed regarding the status of assigned responsibilities.
11. Adhere to implementation best practices in one or more functional areas of the ION solution in all functional design, specifications, custom coding, unit testing, and other deliverables.
12. Follow ION documentation standards and resolution process flow for all deliverables.
13. Maintain full chargeability on client account(s) as assigned.

Required Skills, Experience and Qualifications:

1. Implementation experience is preferred with the Aspect application, but relevant ETRM background will be considered.
2. Experience required with one or more of the following areas:
3. Front Office/Risk Skills: Candidate must have strong knowledge of Trading and Risk concepts. Capabilities should include experience with both physical (purchases, sales, exchange for physicals (EFP), buy/sells, exchanges, etc.) and financial instruments (Futures, Options, OTC Swaps, OTC Options, FX Swaps, Exchange Traded Options, etc.). Additionally, implementation experience should include developing book structures, configuring pricing constructs (Forward, Market and Derived), setting Limits (Risk and Trading), and position reporting (mark to market, and exposure).
4. Accounting/Back Office Skills: Candidate must have implementation experience with invoicing and settlements, contracts and confirms, cash flow reporting, and interfacing with ERP for A/R and A/P.
5. Scheduling Skills: Candidate must have strong knowledge of scheduling concepts in ETRM systems. Implementation experience necessary with transportation (trucks, rail, waterborne, pipeline, product transfers), storage, exchanges and processing (fractionation, blending, and refining), inventory management, position reporting, tariff and fees capture, tolling, and assay management.
6. Industry Skills: Natural Gas, Crude, Refined Products, Biofuels, LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas), Metals, Carbon, Coal, Agricultural Products.
7. 5+ years of experience in designing, configuring, and troubleshooting Product installations in client environments.
8. Bachelor's degree in one of the following: Finance, Accounting, Engineering, Economics, or a related IT field or equivalent experience in a related field.
9. Ability to work as part of a project team structure.
10. Ability to work onsite at client locations.