Business Analyst - Energy Consultancy

Business Analyst - Energy

The utilities industry is changing dramatically as the world embraces planet-friendly fuels and the trend toward electrification moves utilities from value-chain players to the backbone of the energy transition. Consumers and businesses alike are actively choosing low-carbon homes and offices, and they expect greater empowerment and a more sophisticated experience from their energy suppliers.

The Role

• The Role support various project activities ranges from Start-up/Discovery to In-flight phases.
• Conduct subject research including interviewing SMEs and Project Team.
• Perform option analysis and document findings using given template to prepare and produce Project Investment Papers
• Prepare and facilitate workshops with various stakeholders
• Apply Design Thinking, Service Design, and Product focused techniques to understand current processes, user profiles, and prioritising needs, confirm problem statements, and identify opportunities and Minimum Viable Product/Solution
• Understand the as-is business processes, conduct Gap Analysis and recommend any improvements
• Produce As-Is and To-Be processes and mapping.
• Work with SMEs, Solution Architects and Product Owners to capture outcomes and requirements in the forms of Business Requirement Document (BRD), Functional Specification, Epics, Product Backlog and User Stories based on the project requirements within agile framework.
• Develop roadmaps in association with project team
• Identify and document business risks and risk mitigations.
• Playback the requirements to development teams and provide clarifications
• Support Project Team to scope out next phase of requirement activities.

Essential

• Proven Business Analyst expertise with extensive project experience across the software delivery lifecycle (SDLC) experience.
• Experienced with providing functional support for systems integration and testing activities
• Experience of working within complex project matrix environments, with both internal and 3rd party resources
• Experience in Portfolio Management.
• Knowledge in Cloud and typical solution components for UI, Data, Integration, Security etc.
• Extensive experience in operating in different project phases (ranges from Discovery to Post Implementation support).
• Knowledge on common non-functional requirements for a given project
• Skilled in requirement elicitation and documentation, UML design and data modelling.
• Experience of facilitating workshops and engaging with stakeholders at all levels and functions of the business
• Experience in conducting option analysis and documentation of investment case and other artefacts as required.
• Effective communicator able to communicate with different areas of the business and stakeholder management
• Excellent presentation skills

Advantageous

• Experience in Gas Utilities industry
• Knowledge in CRM, Energy Markets, Asset Management, Operations, Real time Control etc.
• Digital strategy & Technology consulting services experience
• Experience in Data Analysis using tools such as MS Excel, PowerBI. SQL
• ISEB BA qualifications