Senior Business Analyst – Energy Location: Houston, Texas Employment Type: Contract Work Arrangement: Onsite Role Summary We are seeking a strong Business Analyst with experience analyzing business processes, gathering requirements, and preparing detailed process and solution documentation. The ideal candidate should have excellent stakeholder-management skills and preferably have experience in the energy, oil and gas, utilities, or commodity-trading domain. Key Responsibilities
Work with business and technology stakeholders to understand business needs, challenges, and objectives.
Conduct workshops and interviews to gather and validate business and functional requirements.
Analyze current-state processes and identify gaps, risks, and improvement opportunities.
Develop current-state and future-state process maps, workflows, and operating procedures.
Prepare Business Requirements Documents, Functional Requirements Documents, user stories, use cases, and process-design documents.
Translate business requirements into clear specifications for technical and delivery teams.
Coordinate with product owners, developers, architects, testing teams, and business users throughout the project lifecycle.
Support solution design, testing, user acceptance testing, implementation, and change-management activities.
Maintain requirements traceability and ensure that delivered solutions meet business expectations.
Provide regular project updates and help resolve requirement-related issues.
Required Skills
4+ years of experience as a Business Analyst in technology or business-transformation projects.
Strong experience in requirements gathering, business-process analysis, and process mapping.
Experience creating process flows using tools such as Microsoft Visio, Lucidchart, or similar platforms.
Strong documentation skills, including BRDs, FRDs, user stories, use cases, functional specifications, and standard operating procedures.
Experience working with both business and technical stakeholders.
Good understanding of Agile and Waterfall delivery methodologies.
Experience supporting UAT, defect resolution, implementation, and process improvements.
Excellent communication, facilitation, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
Ability to work from the Houston office as required.
Preferred Skills
Experience in the energy, oil and gas, utilities, power, commodities, or energy-trading domain.
Understanding of front-, middle-, or back-office energy processes.
Experience with ETRM, ERP, CRM, workflow, or enterprise transformation projects.
Familiarity with Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Visio, PowerPoint, and Excel.
Numbers & Facts
Location
Houston, TX
Job Type
Full-time
Skills
Acceptance Testingunmatched
Agile Programming Methodologiesunmatched
Analysis Skillsunmatched
Atlassian JIRAunmatched
Business Analysisunmatched
Business Processesunmatched
Business Transformationunmatched
Communication Skillsunmatched
Customer Relationship Management (CRM)unmatched
Documentationunmatched
ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning)unmatched
Functional Requirements Document (FRD)unmatched
Functional Testingunmatched
Interviewing Skillsunmatched
Microsoft Excelunmatched
Microsoft PowerPointunmatched
Microsoft Visiounmatched
Needs Assessmentunmatched
Oil and Gasunmatched
Operations Processesunmatched
Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
Process Analysisunmatched
Process Developmentunmatched
Process Flowunmatched
Process Improvementunmatched
Project Lifecycleunmatched
Requirements Managementunmatched
Risk Analysisunmatched
Standard Operating Procedures (SOP)unmatched
Technology Analysisunmatched
Test Designunmatched
Testingunmatched
Traceabilityunmatched
Trading/Stockbrokingunmatched
Use Casesunmatched
Waterfall Model of Software Developmentunmatched
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