
Business Analyst - Retail Energy
- Houston, TX
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Preparing, facilitating, documenting and participating in client meetings/workshops conducting a structured gathering, research, and analysis o Developing and evaluating procedures, controls, user requirements, and functional specifications to identify gaps between the current state and future state
- Creating business requirement documents (BRD's) into use cases/functional specifications for customization
- Requirements gathering, functional requirements, user stories, and documentation business/data/application/technology architectures, requirements and business rules
- Business process models/design, logical data models, standards and guidance
- Documenting and explaining problems and works to resolve software defects while ensuring technical compatibility and end-user satisfaction
- Analyzing, developing and proposing enhancements to current business processes, reports and applications in order to optimize system effectiveness
- Conducting customer interviews and producing meeting summaries
- Conducting market/client research and industry analysis of requirements
- Producing high-quality verbal and written consulting deliverables (including proposals, customer presentations, consulting reports) to effectively communicate project findings
- Generating re-usable intellectual capital in the form of consulting methodology and templates, blueprints and business cases
- Basic scripting and project plans
- 4+ years of Business Analyst experience
- Retail Energy experience such as CIS/Billing, EDI, Customer Care, Sales, and C&I/Mass Market products
- Other related experience such wholesale, settlements, utilities, or trading is a plus
- Experience working for a management consulting firm preferred
- Solid Business Analyst skills, including experience interviewing client executives to gather and document business requirements and process mapping
- Strong presentation skills, extensive experience writing successful project proposals, experience planning and executing related projects
- Ability to demonstrate project management skills and experience
- Bachelor's degree required; major in MIS, Computer Science, Finance, Economics, Business or Financial Engineering preferred
- An advanced degree is desirable