Trading Business Analyst

Your Job

Koch Ag & Energy Solutions is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Business Analyst to support our North American Natural Gas business.

This role involves building partnerships with our trading capabilities and working on transformational improvements that foster business growth.

The Business Analyst will collaborate with users to gather and refine requirements for natural gas-related business functionality, which they will then translate into functional requirements for the development team.

This person will be required to understand the technical team's proposed solution to ensure it meets the functional requirements.

Additionally, the Business Analyst will be responsible for conducting timely research of data issues and addressing abnormalities or unexpected behaviors.

A successful applicant will understand and communicate business activities and key drivers to a diverse audience and exhibit leadership skills necessary to interact with each department reliant on system information.

The candidate must have strong business acumen and advanced system skills to quickly adapt to the learning curve, as well as the ability to prioritize and reprioritize as issues arise.



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*This role will be based in our Wichita, KS or Houston, TX office, with the ability to work a hybrid schedule.

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What You Will Do


* Work alongside business and information technology resources responsible for supporting our North American Natural Gas business.


* Work closely with a broad range of business users in various functional user groups and information technology groups.


* Ensure system integrity, analysis around new business, process improvement, and system testing.


* Drive solutions which are flexible, user friendly, and match the needs of our ever-growing knowledge base company.


* Drive enhancements and projects to our technology platform to ensure it is interactive, flexible, and intuitive for the end-user community to obtain the necessary insights to manage a commodity-based business.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)


* 4+ years of experience in a business analyst, business systems analyst, or process analyst role


* 3+ years of experience writing business requirements, detailed designs and functional specifications


* 3+ years of IT related experience in the energy industry or in energy trading


* Experience with a structured software development methodology such as Agile, Waterfall, etc.

What Will Put You Ahead


* Knowledge of and experience in North American Natural Gas business


* Experience with Gas related systems such as Openlink, ETRM, Logistics, ICE, and Pipeline Bulletin Boards


* Experience supporting the following Openlink Modules: Trader Desktop, Deal Modeling, Scheduling (gMotion) and/or (cMotion), Position & Pnl Reporting, Scheduling Interfaces (Gas Hub / EBB), and Active Position Management


* Working knowledge of Deal Modeling, PNL and Position reporting, PNL calculations ...