Senior Business Consultant Allegro

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.
• We are hiring for this role at our Bangalore, Noida, and Pune offices.

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 clients 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 charge ability 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.