Business Analyst, Energy Industry Consulting - Commodity trading

Business Analyst, Energy Industry Consulting - Commodity trading

The Company

Cognizant (NASDAQ:CTSH) is a leading provider of information technology, consulting, and business process outsourcing services, dedicated to helping the world's leading companies build stronger businesses. Headquartered in Teaneck, New Jersey (U.S.), Cognizant has over 350,000 employees as of January 2024. Cognizant is a member of the NASDAQ-100, the S&P 500, the Forbes Global 1000, and the Fortune 500 and is ranked among the top performing and fastest growing companies in the world.

Cognizant Consulting

At Cognizant, our consultants orchestrate the capabilities to truly change the game across strategy, design, technology and industry/functional knowledge to deliver insight at speed and solutions at scale.

Profile & skills:

• Knowledge of physical commodities trading markets and organisations (LNG, physical gas or oil).
• Experience of delivery within a trading environment and working in fast-paced project delivery using AGILE methods.
• Knowledge of Business Analysis techniques and tools with significant experience in project deliverables including the ability to:
• Precisely capture business problems, value drivers, and functional/non-functional requirements.
• Translate business requirements into functionality and assess the risks, feasibility, opportunities, and business impacts of various solution options.
• Visualise, articulate and solve complex problems and concepts.
• Knowledge of test principles through the development lifecycle and a willingness to support the test function at peak stages in the sprint cycle.
• A delivery focus in terms of closing out tasks effectively in addition to realising planned business benefits alongside users.
• Consistent business case/solution cost-benefit awareness to ensure the right focus is being given to each task to provide maximum benefit to stakeholders.
• Experience of working with data (e.g. data migration projects) and able to use basic SQL to work effectively with databases.
• Experience of working directly with traders on trader models.

Other requirements:

• Detailed knowledge of the LNG market.
• Experience of Power BI, Power Query and Power Automate and Knowledge of ETRM Systems like Endur, Aligne.
• Knowledge of metals, power or emissions trading.
• Ability to use approved business analyst modelling techniques to capture issues, define requirements and communicate solutions.
• Experience working in geographically distributed teams.
• Detailed knowledge of data management best practice.
• A determined focus on the user and user experience when problem-solving.
• Team player and able to collaborate, proactively communicates and shares understanding and experience within a team.
• Keeps up-to-date knowledge of the energy industry and energy trading.
• Comfortable talking to business users and can translate business needs into tangible user stories or requirements.
• Clear communicator and able to work in a multicultural/lingual environment.
• Uses best practice analysis techniques but can change approach according to conflicting timelines/risks involved.
• Uses initiative and owns their deliverables end-to-end.
• Brings ideas to the table, is inquisitive and excited by new technology.
• Used to working in a flexible, independent manner on a mixture of small unstructured and large structured items.
• Provides regular, considered feedback and regularly strives to improve their own ways of working.

The Cognizant community:
We are a high caliber team who appreciate and support one another. Our people uphold an energetic, collaborative and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive.

Our commitment to diversity and inclusion:
Cognizant is an equal opportunity employer that embraces diversity, champions equity and values inclusion. We are dedicated to nurturing a community where everyone feels heard, accepted and welcome.