Business Analyst / Remote,6+ Months Contract

Job Description: This Business Analyst(BA) position will be in the IT department of a Utility company operating in North America. The BA will be responsible for: • Facilitating requirements gathering meetings with Business and IT participants • Gathering and documenting process flows and business requirements • Identifying gaps in current processes and capabilities that new solutions could address • Communicating regularly with Business and IT participants on information needed to provide solutions. • Communicating effectively with business users to identify needs and evaluate alternative business solutions • Conducting reviews to ensure business requirements are met • Assisting in developing use cases or test scripts as needed working with Business and IT experts • Gathering requirements for new enhancements and custom reports; work with IT to develop functional specifications and work closely with the technical support or system vendor to get the requests and enhancements tested and implemented • Reporting progress of work regularly Must Skill: • Strong work experience with requirements gathering, business processes, documentation of processes and requirements. • Ability to evaluate and understand business processes and strategies and how those relate to new or existing technologies. • Experience with Energy Trading and Risk Management business • Understanding of concepts of Front, Middle and Back office in the Energy Trading business • Basic understanding of VaR, MtM, Hedging, Positions or other trading or risk management concepts in trading Plus Skills/Experience • Experience on any ETRM implementation in an Energy Trading environment • Experience with Trading or related functions in Logistics, Credit, Contracts, Counterparties, Plant operations or accounting, pricing, Energy exchanges, Gas or Power Trading or operations. • Endur or cQuant or Risk Analytics experience • Experience with ETRM systems integration to/from Legacy systems Apply tot his job