Senior Business Solutions Professional

Job Description:

We seek a seasoned Senior Business Consultant to provide industry and functional advice in the discovery, design, implementation, testing, and production support of Product solutions for clients' business needs. This individual will work closely with client users to determine business requirements and work processes to be addressed by one or more areas of the Product solution.

Responsibilities:

• Provide industry and functional advice and troubleshooting in the discovery workshop, design, implementation, testing, and production support of Product solutions for clients' business needs.
• Present the Product solution to client users.
• Support the deliverables of Technical Consultants by providing business and functional guidance, review, testing, and validation of scripted solutions as directed by Product Managers.
• 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 Managers.
• Assume hands-on project implementation duties in all phases of the Product implementation, reporting to Project Managers.
• Gather and document business requirements, configuration designs, test plans/results, and any other deliverables required by projects as determined by Project Managers and Lead Business Consultants.
• Keep Line Managers and Project Managers 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 chargeability on client accounts as assigned.

Required Skills, Experience, and Qualifications:

Implementation experience is preferred with the Allegro (Horizon) application, but relevant ETRM background will be considered.

Experience is 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 is 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 are 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 is 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 is 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 is required.

Bachelor's degree in one of the following: Finance, Accounting, Engineering, Economics, or a related IT field or equivalent experience in a related field is required.

Ability to work as part of a project team structure is essential.

Ability to work onsite at client locations is required.