Business Analyst Retail

** Business Analyst Retail**

**Job Category****:** IT **Requisition Number****:** BUSIN001776 Showing 1 location **Job Details**

**Description**

**EDF Trading North America, LLC**

EDF Trading North America, LLC is a major participant in wholesale energy markets, and our retail business delivers customized energy solutions for large commercial and industrial consumers, power generation and retail energy providers.

We operate in every market and provide coast-to-coast coverage of financial and physical products in power, natural gas and NGLs, environmental products and financial crude oil products. We provide our customers with products and services that deliver access to markets, optimize their energy portfolio, hedge risk and manage assets. Our Wholesale Business operates throughout the value chain in the North American wholesale power markets and we are one of the leading wholesale natural gas marketers. Additionally, we provide environmental, congestion management and value added derivative products. With extensive pipeline agreements, we can manage natural gas offtakes, deliveries, capacities and supply anywhere across the continent. For Our Retail Business we provide wholesale fuel supply and structured products for its extensive base of electricity and natural gas customers including gas-fired power plants, large scale commercial and industrial retail consumers and retail energy aggregators.

Our Retail Business is our customer-facing operation providing integrated energy management services to commercial and industrial, power generation, and retail supply customers. Taking into account a customers entire energy portfolio, solutions are structured to provide competitive market pricing and to optimize energy usage and generation assets. We offer a complete suite of services to energy-intensive retail customers, from energy supply and hedging to on-site generation management and demand response. And we provide wholesale market access and ISO interface services to a broad network of retail energy providers with footprints across the deregulated markets. For power generation customers, we provide energy management services that encompass fuel supply, scheduling, dispatch, market analysis and risk management all within a single contract. Focused on service, we created a digital integrated platform and customer interface that allows transparent views into energy portfolios and invoices, market prices, analytics and weather.

EDF Trading North America, LLC is part of the EDF Group, a global leader in low-carbon energies.

**Responsibilities:**

* Partner with key users, business leads, and project sponsors to understand the needs of the business, document them (via requirements documents, use cases and process diagrams), and determine the appropriate most cost effective short and long term solutions to meet them.

* Evaluate user requirements and implement working solutions through: system design, analysis, testing, training, and documentation.

* Perform evaluations of business solutions to identify pain points, process gaps, and incremental enhancements and work collaboratively with them to implement fit for purpose solutions.

* Serve as an internal point of contact for the Technology team whenever requirements need to be clarified.

* Interface with technology team during development to validate the solution against the requirements.

* Act as a liaison between business users and the Technology team to resolve technical issues.

* Ability to read, digest and communicate complex subject matter to all levels and to influence personnel to accomplish the business purpose.

* Provide reliable and informative project updates in project, team and/or steering committee meetings.

* Develop project plans including scope, schedule, and resource plans and then monitor and track project status and results to that plan.

* Develop comprehensive business cases with cost/benefit analysis and project charter components.

* Develop and implement test plans based on business requirements.

* Acquire and/or create test data and business process scenarios.

* Coordinate and drive user acceptance testing including end user training as required.

* Strong critical thinking and analysis, organizational, meeting facilitation, verbal and written communications, and interpersonal interactions skills.

* Influences the decision making process through effectively presenting concepts and project overviews to vendors, technologist, and management.

* Manage implementation of new/upgraded systems for several business cycles, until steady state is reached including software testing and user training

* Develop new business processes, including fall back operation modes

* Prepare user documentation/training and/or operating procedures as necessary

**Requirements & Qualifications:**

* Minimum of 2 years experience in IT project management, business analysis, and/or related experience

* Bachelor Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or relevant experience

* Highly motivated self-starter with an ability to proactively communicate issues, status, questions, and knowledge

* Excellent organizational, analytical, as well as oral and written communication skills

* Able to meet deadlines with limited supervision

* Strong sense of ownership and accountability of tasks

* Desire and aptitude to learn and understand new and emerging technologies

* Must have advanced knowledge of MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Project

* The ability to work independently or on a team exhibiting excellent multi-tasking skills

**Preferred Skills:**

* Significant knowledge of the Retail Energy industry is preferred

* Knowledge of relational database designs.

* Competency in modern client DBMS tools desired

* Competency in Visio or other process diagramming tools desired

**Note: EDF is an EEO employer**

**We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified candidates will receive consideration for all positions without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.**

**EDF participates in the E-Verify Employment Verification Program.**

**EDF is not currently accepting unsolicited resumes from search firms. Regardless of past practice, all resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at EDF via-email, the Internet or directly to hiring managers at EDF in any form without a valid written agreement in place for that specific position will be deemed the sole property of EDF. As a result, no fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by EDF.**

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