Role: Endur BA Consultant
Location: Houston, TX (Onsite)
Duration: Contract Position
Client: Cheniere Energy
POSITION OVERVIEW
The Analyst, ETRM reports to the Manager, ETRM Applications and is responsible for delivering IT solutions and supporting ETRM applications. Delivering IT business solutions includes documenting business requirements and application configuration, quality assurance testing, and facilitating user acceptance testing. Supporting ETRM applications includes responding to production issues and working with users and other IT ETRM team members to resolve problems in a timely manner.
RESPONSIBILITIES AND ESSENTIAL DUTIES
You will work with other Cheniere subject matter experts and will be responsible for documentation, configuration, testing and support of ETRM business applications, including but not limited to Endur, Zema, IMOS, and custom applications. The Analyst, ETRM coordinates with vendors, DBAs, IT Infrastructure personnel, technical consultants, and other staff to deliver solutions.
Additional responsibilities:
- Actively participates and leads requirements gathering, configuration, testing and implementation of ETRM application solutions
- Takes ownership of projects and assignments
- Works on multiple projects concurrently and/or multiple high priority production support issues simultaneously.
- Works with ETRM team members to ensure core and custom solutions adhere to best practices.
- Investigates and resolves support problems through research and technical analysis.
- Coordinates with other team members to resolve issues
- Supports and delivers solutions related to custom integrations
- Facilitates user acceptance testing of delivered solutions
- Works with development staff to create and verify deployment runbooks
- Adheres to change management procedures
- Provides off-hours support when needed.
KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS:
Experience designing and delivering technical solutions to meet complex business requirements in a commodity trading environment. Exposure to front, middle or back office functions with understanding of some of the following areas will be beneficial: Gas, LNG & financial deal capture, Mark to Market, PnL Explained, Risk Exposure, Scheduling, Settlements and Accounting in OpenLink Endur Application or any other ETRM system
Skills:
Communication Skills: Ability to articulate and document complex technical ideas and user requirements for business stakeholders.
Exposure to the full deal lifecycle including the following:
o Trading Entry & position Management
o Valuation & Risk Management
o Shipping operations using Veson IMOS or any other application
o Industry Interfaces i.e., Trayport, ICE, CME
o Operations/ Logistics/ Nominations (Nat Gas, LNG, and Power)
o Invoicing & Settlements
o Market Data Feeds and Curve Management (ZEMA)
o Regulatory Compliance e.g., FERC, Dodd-Frank, SOX, REMIT, EMIR
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
Education, Training and Certifications: Bachelor's Degree in Management Information Systems, Computer Science , Finance, Accounting, other IT-related field or equivalent years of relevant experience
Experience:
- Three (3) to five (5) years' experience.
- Developing with ION/OpenLink Endur, using JVS and/or .NET and Oracle DBMS and PL/SQL
- Experience customizing Openlink Endur via configuration.
- Experience integrating Endur with other ETRM-related applications and services (e.g. ICE, CME)
- Experience with pricing systems such as Zema or other pricing / time-series systems is a plus
- Experience in effective time management and applying strong analytical, organization and problem-solving skills.