Business Analyst - Terminal Inventory Management

Business Analyst - Terminal Inventory Management

Location: Houston, TX (hybrid, at the client site)
Type: Permanent, Full-time

About the Role
We are seeking an experienced Business Analyst to support a Trading Operations terminal inventory management initiative across North America for a global energy trading client. You will be a key interface between Trading Operations stakeholders, commercial operations transformation, IT functional teams, terminal stakeholders and an external SaaS vendor. The role focuses on eliciting and translating business, data, integration and reporting requirements into implementable solutions, with emphasis on terminal inventory data, vendor dashboards and a future internal reporting capability on an Enterprise Data Platform (EDP).

Project Context
The initiative improves the aggregation, standardization, integration and reporting of terminal and pipeline information across North America. A third-party Terminal Inventory Management System will aggregate liftings, opening and closing inventory balances, pipeline receipts, pipeline schedules and other terminal inventory data from external supply points, exposing it through APIs and dashboards. Relevant data will be converted to the PIDX (Petroleum Industry Data Exchange) standard for ingestion into internal EDP environments, enabling internal reporting and dashboards.

Key Accountabilities

Business Analysis & Requirements

• Lead requirements elicitation and analysis across data, integration and dashboard/reporting capabilities.
• Engage directly with Trading Operations users (operators and schedulers) to understand current processes, information needs and how terminal data is consumed today.
• Translate business needs into clear, structured functional and data requirements.
• Define and document reporting/dashboard requirements for the vendor solution and the subsequent internal reporting capability.
• Ensure requirements are aligned across business, IT, vendor and delivery stakeholders, and support them through design, build, testing and implementation.

Stakeholder & Vendor Engagement

• Act as a key interface across Trading Operations, commercial operations, terminal stakeholders, the external vendor and global IT functional teams.
• Collaborate with data platform, architecture, contracts and procurement teams.
• Facilitate requirement workshops across business, technical and vendor stakeholders, translating operational terminology for technical and vendor teams.

Data, Integration & Reporting

• Support requirements for terminal and pipeline data ingestion and integration, vendor APIs, dashboards and downstream EDP reporting.
• Support alignment of source data with PIDX standards and downstream consumption requirements.
• Work closely with data and technology teams using Databricks, Unity Catalog and Power BI.

Testing, Deployment & Change

• Prepare and execute business and user-focused testing, validating that terminal data is accurate and that dashboards work as expected.
• Support defect clarification and business validation.
• Support user readiness, training, communications and adoption, and turn end-user feedback into actionable requirements.

Requirements

Essential

• Strong Business Analysis experience in complex business and technology transformation environments.
• Excellent requirements elicitation, analysis, documentation and stakeholder management.
• Experience working across business, technology, data and third-party/vendor teams.
• Strong understanding of data-driven requirements, integrations and reporting/dashboard solutions.
• Experience supporting testing, business validation and UAT.
• Ability to engage credibly with business users and technical specialists, and to manage senior, geographically distributed stakeholders.
• Ability to work independently and own BA deliverables in a complex program.

Preferred

• Familiarity with oil & gas trading and supply, especially Trading Operations and/or terminals.
• Understanding of terminal inventory management and related operational data.
• Familiarity with EDP, Databricks, Unity Catalog, Power BI and PIDX.
• Experience with SaaS/vendor integrations, data ingestion, APIs, data standardization and reporting solutions.
• Experience working with geographically distributed North American business teams.