Job Summary / Purpose
Golden Pass LNG is an ExxonMobil (30%) and QatarEnergy (70%) joint venture formed in the early 2000s to import liquefied natural gas. In 2019, the shareholders made a $10B final investment decision for “The Golden Pass LNG Export Project” to construct a world class LNG export facility.
From inception to date, substantially all technology systems and services have been provided by ExxonMobil IT. As part of the project, the company launched a GPLNG IT Enablement initiative to carve out systems, and establish standalone systems and processes designed specifically for LNG export operations in a Greenfield environment. The IT Enablement initiatives will utilize Cloud technology and Software-as-a Service to the extent possible. Golden Pass IT professionals will focus on strategic initiatives, business differentiators, and manage service providers to maintain systems and perform recurring, tactical tasks.
The Sr. Business Analyst will have responsibility for Energy Trading and Risk Management systems, market data information, and other systems and processes required to support natural gas trading. This role is for a Sr. Business Analyst to work within a Commodities Trade Processing, Trade Lifecycle Management, Risk and PnL team – primarily design and implement solutions within the OpenLink Endur platform. The areas of expertise must include physical and financial deals, scheduling, trade lifecycle, risk reporting, P&L and market data for Natural Gas and LNG commodities.
THE CANDIDATE MUST BE ABLE TO EFFECTIVELY COMMUNICATE, ADVISE ALL LEVELS OF BUSINESS USERS AND SOLVE COMPLEX BUSINESS PROBLEMS / REQUIREMENTS WITHIN OUR SYSTEM IMPLEMENTATION.
Essential Duties / Functions
- Candidate must have good knowledge of energy trading and risk management processes across front, middle and back office functionalities with an emphasis on Natural Gas and LNG trading and logistics management.
- Candidate should have a good understanding of natural gas and LNG contracts in wholesale market, gas pricing, gas nominations & scheduling, gas transmission and distribution.
- Candidate must have good knowledge of the latest Endur product platform, its architecture, its key Modules and its Data Model and should have minimum 5 years of working experience in Endur version 10 or upwards.
- Candidate must have good understanding on deal modeling, deal lifecycle and product configuration within Endur including but not limited to new Instrument building, deal screen configuration, new template creation, deal modelling, market data setup, reference data setup, risk valuation, pnl reporting, accounting, invoicing, settlements and reporting.
- Design and providing feasible solution options to tackle business issues and support business growth in the system
- Communicate effectively between business users to gather business requirements, translate them into technical specifications, and work with developers for implementation
- Effective Stakeholder relationship management between Business and IT
- L2/3 support of Endur Production instance
- Contribute ideas to the evolution of the system architecture
- Candidate must have a good understanding of agile delivery methodology and experience working in a global team. Candidate must be able to effectively manage tasks assigned, timelines and progress reporting on the tasks.