Endur Trading Business Analyst

Salary: £70,000 - £85,000 + £5,750 Car Allowance + 10% Bonus

Location: London (with ad hoc travel)

About the Role

We're seeking an experienced Trading Business Analyst to support energy and commodities trading firms in optimizing the Endur trading platform. You'll work closely with traders, risk managers, and IT teams to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of the platform in trading, risk management, and back-office operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Analyze business requirements
• Configure Endur functionalities and identify system improvements
• Troubleshoot issues related to trading workflows
• Ensure data integrity and facilitate user training
• Generate and present reports to key stakeholders

Essential Requirements

Business Analysis / Project Delivery Experience

• Proven experience in end-to-end project delivery and business analysis
• Strong BA experience including capturing business problems, value drivers, and functional/non-functional requirements
• Experience running workshops and user acceptance testing
• Strong stakeholder management skills
• Experience working in Agile project delivery

Energy Trading & Endur Experience

Experience of energy trading markets, with a strong understanding of one of the following markets:

• UK & European Power
• UK & European Gas
• Environmental products

Working knowledge of different trading instruments, including:

• OTC transactions (forwards, swaps, and simple options)
• Exchange traded futures & options lifecycle including cascading

In-depth knowledge of at least one of the following functional areas:

• Trade capture - complex deal modelling and pricing
• Market Risk and risk Valuation
• Back-Office processes
• Accounting processes
• EOD
• Migrating between ETRM systems

• Proficient with OpenLink Endur Base configurations/Reference Data configurations and good understanding of the various managers in the tool
• Endur configuration for Deal lifecycle, Confirmations, Settlement invoicing, and scheduling
• Experience establishing and delivering progressively larger and more complex projects/services
• Domain knowledge and skills in ETRM - mainly Endur (v18 or beyond)
• Knowledge of energy trading and risk management (ETRM) Front Office and Operations business processes
• Knowledge of the energy/commodity trading business (Power, Emissions, Gas, Commodities)
• Prior experience of Endur covering end-to-end trade lifecycle processes with knowledge on technical aspects of integrating with other ETRM systems
• Experience of financial concepts: P&L, MTM, Financial Risk, Financial Instruments (derivatives traded products), settlements
• Strong organisational skills managing multiple workstreams and competing priorities simultaneously
• Experience of line managing resources and project managing teams
• Experience leading projects embracing Cloud Technologies (e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Experience using different delivery methodologies: Agile (Scrum, Kanban) and Waterfall

Education and Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree or equivalent
• STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) majors preferred but not essential