Trade Control / Back Office – Senior Business Analyst (ETRM / Orchestrade Migration)

Talan Group; Nebraska; On-site; USD 100,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading US-based energy firm is seeking a Senior Business Analyst to support their ETRM migration to Orchestrade. This role involves facilitating discussions, gathering requirements, and ensuring business alignment during a critical multi-year transformation. Ideal candidates will have strong analytical skills, experience in energy trading, and SQL knowledge. The position demands collaboration with US teams and European partners, ensuring all functional requirements are delivered effectively.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Senior Business Analyst on complex transformation programs.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to drive decisions and simplify complex topics.
• Experience with ETRM implementations and Orchestrade.
• SQL skills or strong technical awareness (data flows, interfaces, reconciliation).
• Experience on ETRM implementations/migrations, especially Orchestrade.
• Understanding of trade lifecycle events, settlement/invoicing, accounting impacts.
• Familiarity with Jira/Confluence and test management tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead discussions with business users to gather functional requirements.
• Support testing and validation during the migration.
• Coordinate resolution of functional gaps with internal teams.
• Support testing, validation, and business alignment
• Identify functional gaps and coordinate resolution with internal teams and vendors

Skills

Stakeholder management

Analytical skills

Communication skills

SQL skills

Energy trading knowledge

SQL

ETRM migrations

Orchestrade

Energy trading

Jira/Confluence

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Test management

Job description

Trade Control / Back Office – Senior Business Analyst (ETRM / Orchestrade Migration)

We are looking for a Senior Business Analyst (Functional) to join a US-based energy trading company headquartered in Europe, currently executing a multi-year transformation program to migrate from a legacy ETRM to Orchestrade.

The migration is delivered market by market, with business processes progressively aligned to European standards. The program has high business impact, tight timelines, and requires close collaboration between US business teams, the European headquarters, and delivery partners.

Role Objective

The Senior BA will strengthen functional delivery capacity and provide hands‑on support to business users during the ETRM migration. The role is critical in supporting business adoption, ensuring functional requirements are correctly implemented, and reducing reliance on key functional SMEs through documentation, process clarity, and structured delivery.

Functional Scope

Trade Control processes (confirmations, validations, lifecycle events, reconciliations)

Back Office & post‑trade operations

Regulatory, accounting, and exchange‑related workflows

Interaction with upstream/downstream systems (market data, settlements, accounting, reporting, data platforms)

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and facilitate discussions with business users
• Gather, clarify, and drive functional requirements
• Translate European processes for US teams
• Support testing, validation, and business alignment
• Identify functional gaps and coordinate resolution with internal teams and vendors

Qualifications

Required

• Proven experience as a Senior Business Analyst on complex transformation programs
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills (business + IT + vendor coordination)
• Ability to structure discussions, simplify complex topics, and drive decisions
• Knowledge of energy trading and/or US power markets (PJM, ISO-NE, ERCOT, etc.)
• Experience working across time zones and bridging global teams
• Strong analytical skills with good attention to detail
• SQL skills or strong technical awareness (data flows, interfaces, reconciliation concepts)
• Experience on ETRM implementations/migrations, especially Orchestrade
• Understanding of: trade lifecycle events, settlement & invoicing, exchange clearing, accounting impacts / P&L / month‑end close support
• Familiarity with delivery tools such as Jira/Confluence, test management tools, etc.

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.