Senior Business Analyst

Description

Job Title: Senior Business Analyst (Business Analyst - Gas and Power Trading - Fundamental Balances)

Job Location: Canary Wharf (hybrid - 3 days in the office/ 2 from home)

Contract Length: 8 months (Possibility of extension)

Industry: Gas and Power Trading

Working Hours: 8 per day/ 40 per week

Role Overview:

• Analyse and document the dynamics of supply and demand balances in European gas and power markets, including storage and transportation capacity.
• Support the transformation from daily snapshots to real-time fundamental balances, enabling traders to respond more effectively to market changes.
• Collaborate with trading desks to understand pre-deal problems, market behaviour, and the impact of various instruments (simple and complex) on trading strategies.
• Lead stakeholder engagement and requirement elicitation across front office, strategy, operations, and technology teams.
• Translate business needs into clear, actionable technical requirements and support solution delivery.
• Apply technical skills to support data curation, SQL-based analysis, and version control workflows.

What you will have:

• Someone who understands the dynamics of supply and demand balances in European energy markets and has worked on pre-deal problems in this space
• Understands dynamics of what drives gas market behaviour (e.g. supply demand balances)
• Structure of the European gas markets
• Has a good understanding of the instruments traded in this market (both simple and complex
• Storage/Transportation capacity etc
• Strong BA skills in terms of stakeholder management, requirement elicitation etc
• Decent technical skills (e.g. understands SQL, code branching, data curation etc.)