Mercuria is one of the world’s leading independent energy and commodity groups. Our purpose is to connect markets and to advance the energy transition. We bring markets together to support the world’s energy needs of today by trading, structuring finance, and investing into strategic assets, whilst generating over $170 billion in turnover. We are committed to advancing the transition to a more sustainable, affordable and reliable energy system for tomorrow. We are well ahead of the pledge we made in 2021 that over half of our investment capital will go into sectors that are advancing the energy transition by 2025, to contribute to global efforts to combat climate change.
This is a great opportunity to join one of the largest integrated energy and commodity trading companies in the world.
We are looking for a Business Analyst to join our dynamic IT department helping to define and drive the analysis process for the Metals IT team. This role will report into the Head of Metals IT, working closely with the Metals Trading and Operations teams for business alignment.
Collaborating with your peers & fellow team members, you will ensure the portfolio of work for the Metals business functions is appropriately analysed and understood, which includes implementation of a new ETRM into the Mercuria landscape to support our growing Global Metals Trading Desk.
You should have a Metals and Concentrates focused background within a Commodity trading environment with a proven ability to engage with users as well as technologists, as well as a desire to identify and develop strategic innovative solutions.
Key responsibilities
* Creation of business requirements for the Metals IT portfolio including for Change and Transformation Programs, as well as associated day to day operationally activities.
* Active member of a high functioning Agile delivery team
* Help drive delivery, whilst ensuring quality of low maintenance, high value solutions
* Ensure requirements are correctly interpreted and offer maximum business value
* Actively seek to identify and drive improvements and innovation across both the business & IT operating models
* Represent and promote Mercuria IT, both internally and externally
* Support firm wide initiatives & strategy where required
Key skills
* 5+ years Commodities experience in a metals trading environment across Base Metals, Refined Metals and Concentrates as well as an strong understanding of their associated key processes such as Assay Mgmt, QP and Logistics
* Proven and demonstrable experience delivering transformational change within a trading environment
* Strong experience working with or in unison with industry leading C/ETRM platforms
* Knowledge of different OTC and Exchange traded instruments and their trade lifecycles
* Excellent documentation skills and experience of creating requirements in an Agile friendly manner such as user stories
* Analytical and critical thinking with ability to problem solve complex issues
* Strong interpersonal skills – able to build relationships across the firm
* Strong communication and influencing ability
* Passion for technology and innovation
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