Senior Business Consultant - Allegro
About the job
SummaryBy Outscal
Senior Business Consultant with 5+ years of experience in ETRM systems, particularly Allegro (Horizon). Expertise in trading and risk management, accounting, scheduling, and energy commodities (Natural Gas, Power, Crude, Refined Products, Biofuels). Strong analytical and problem-solving skills are essential.
The Role:
Join our Delivery Services team where opportunities are available to grow your consulting skills with award-winning software solutions. ION consultants engage with prominent energy and commodities clients all over the world. Our open roles include the Senior Business Consultant position responsible for contributing to the success of the projects by providing software and industry expertise. Within this role you will participate as a member of a team dedicated to providing world class implementation services to our clients.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide industry and functional advice and troubleshooting in the discovery workshop, design, implementation, testing, and production support of the Product solution for the client’s business needs
- Present the Product solution to client users
- Support the deliverables of the Technical Consultants by providing business and functional guidance, review, testing, and validation of scripted solutions (reports, plugins, and interfaces) as directed by Product Manager
- Consult with client users to determine business requirements and work processes to be addressed by one or more areas of the Product solution
- Demonstrate deep knowledge in one or more areas of Product configuration and in one or more energy commodities
- Provide guidance to Business Consultants in one or more functional areas of the Product solution
- Assist with professional services best practices as directed by Line Manager
- Assume hands-on project implementation duties in all phases of the Product implementation, reporting to the Project Manager
- Gather and document business requirements, configuration designs, test plans/results, and any other deliverables required by the project as determined by the Project Manager and Lead Business Consultant
- Keep Line Manager and Project Manager(s) informed regarding the status of assigned responsibilities
- Adhere to implementation best practices in one or more functional areas of the ION solution in all functional design, specifications, custom coding, unit testing, and other deliverables
- Follow ION documentation standards and resolution process flow for all deliverables
- Maintain full chargeability on client account(s) as assigned
Required Skills, Experience and Qualifications:
- Implementation experience is preferred with the Allegro (Horizon) application, but relevant ETRM background will be considered.
- Experience required with one or more of the following areas:
- Front Office/Risk: Candidate must have strong knowledge of Trading and Risk concepts. Capabilities should include experience with both physical (purchases, sales, exchange for physicals (EFP), buy/sells, exchanges, etc.) and financial instruments (Futures, Options, OTC Swaps, OTC Options, FX Swaps, Exchange Traded Options, etc.). Additionally, implementation experience should include developing book structures, configuring pricing constructs (Forward, Market and Derived), setting limits (Risk and Trading), VAR, option valuation and position reporting (mark to market, and exposure). Experience with credit reporting/configuration including credit counterparty setup, credit Instruments, credit check configuration, credit exposure reporting, credit available reporting desired.
- Accounting/Back Office: Candidate must have implementation experience with invoicing and settlements, contracts and confirms, cash flow reporting, and interfacing with ERP for A/R and A/P. Accounting skills desired with inventory valuation, accruals, account coding, and hedge accounting
- Scheduling/Operations: Candidate must have strong knowledge of scheduling concepts in ETRM systems. Implementation experience necessary with transportation (trucks, rail, waterborne, pipeline, product transfers), storage, exchanges, and processing (fractionation, blending, and refining), inventory management, position reporting, tariff and fees capture. Preferred experience with Nat Gas scheduling (pathed and non-pathed).
- Industry: Natural Gas, Power, Crude, Refined Products, Biofuels
- 5+ years of experience in designing, configuring, and troubleshooting Product installations in client environments of experience.
- Bachelor's degree in one of the following: Finance, Accounting, Engineering, Economics, or a related IT field or equivalent experience in a related field
- Ability to work as part of a project team structure.
- Ability to work onsite at client locations.
About us:
We’re a diverse group of visionary innovators who provide trading and workflow automation software, high-value analytics, and strategic consulting to corporations, central banks, financial institutions, and governments. Founded in 1999, we’ve achieved tremendous growth by bringing together some of the best and most successful financial technology companies in the world.
• Over 2,000 of the world’s leading corporations, including 50% of the Fortune 500 and 30% of the world’s central banks, trust ION solutions to manage their cash, in-house banking, commodity supply chain, trading and risk.
• Over 800 of the world’s leading banks and broker-dealers use our electronic trading platforms to operate the world’s financial market infrastructure.
ION is a rapidly expanding and dynamic group with 13,000 employees and offices in more than 40 cities around the globe,
Our ever-expanding global footprint, cutting edge products, and over 40,000 customers worldwide provide an unparalleled career experience for those who share our vision.
ION is committed to maintaining a supportive and inclusive environment for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We respect the varied identities, abilities, cultures, and traditions of the individuals who comprise our organization and recognize the value that different backgrounds and points of view bring to our business.
ION adheres to an equal employment opportunity policy that prohibits discriminatory practices or harassment against applicants or employees based on any legally impermissible factor.
About The Company
We’re visionary innovators who are delivering mission-critical trading and workflow automation software to financial institutions, corporations, central banks, and governments. By combining our passion for automation with a strategic view on the industries we serve, we design solutions that improve decision-making, simplify complex processes, and empower people. Simply put, we help our customers do more, faster and better than before. We believe our investments in research and development are shaping the future of automation and enabling our customers to transform their business. And we embrace the power of community, working with each other and with our customers to succeed through a positive culture of continuous improvement.
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