Senior Business Consultant Allegro

Job Description

The Role:.

- 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.
- We are hiring for this role at our Bangalore, Noida, and Pune offices.

Key Responsibilities:

- Provide industry and functional advice and troubleshooting in the discovery workshop, design, implementation, testing, and production support of the Product solution for the clients business needs.
- Present the Product solution to client users.
- 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.
- Consult with client users to determine business requirements and work processes to be addressed by one or more areas of the Product solution.
- Demonstrate deep knowledge in one or more areas of Product configuration and in one or more energy commodities.
- Provide guidance to Business Consultants in one or more functional areas of the Product solution.
- Assist with professional services best practices as directed by Line Manager.
- Assume hands-on project implementation duties in all phases of the Product implementation, reporting to the Project Manager.
- 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.
- Keep Line Manager and Project Manager(s) informed regarding the status of assigned responsibilities.
- 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.
- Follow ION documentation standards and resolution process flow for all deliverables.
- Maintain full charge ability on client account(s) as assigned.

Required Skills, Experience and Qualifications:.

- Implementation experience is preferred with the Allegro (Horizon) application, but relevant ETRM background will be considered.
- Experience required with one or more of the following areas:.
- Front Office/Risk: 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), VAR, option valuation and position reporting (mark to market, and exposure).
- Experience with credit reporting/configuration including credit counterparty setup, credit Instruments, credit check configuration, credit exposure reporting, credit available reporting desired.
- Accounting/Back Office: 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.
- Accounting skills desired with inventory valuation, accruals, account coding, and hedge accounting.
- Scheduling/Operations: 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.
- Preferred experience with Nat Gas scheduling (pathed and non-pathed).
- Industry: Natural Gas, Power, Crude, Refined Products, Biofuels.
- 5+ years of experience in designing, configuring, and troubleshooting Product installations in client environments of experience.
- Bachelor's degree in one of the following: Finance, Accounting, Engineering, Economics, or a related IT field or equivalent experience in a related field.
- Ability to work as part of a project team structure.
- Ability to work onsite at client locations.

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