About this role
Job Description
We are looking for a Senior Business Analyst (Functional) to join a US-based energy trading company headquartered in Europe, currently executing a multi-year transformation program to migrate from a legacy ETRM to Orchestrade.
The migration is delivered market by market, with business processes progressively aligned to European standards. The program has high business impact, tight timelines, and requires close collaboration between US business teams, the European headquarters, and delivery partners.
Role Objective
The Senior BA will strengthen functional delivery capacity and provide hands-on support to business users during the ETRM migration. The role is critical in supporting business adoption, ensuring functional requirements are correctly implemented, and reducing reliance on key functional SMEs through documentation, process clarity, and structured delivery.
Functional Scope
The BA will support end-to-end post-trade and control workflows including:
Trade Control processes (confirmations, validations, lifecycle events, reconciliations)
Back Office & post-trade operations
Regulatory, accounting, and exchange-related workflows
Interaction with upstream/downstream systems (market data, settlements, accounting, reporting, data platforms)
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and facilitate discussions with business users
- Gather, clarify, and drive functional requirements
- Translate European processes for US teams
- Support testing, validation, and business alignment
- Identify functional gaps and coordinate resolution with internal teams and vendors
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Qualifications
Required
- Proven experience as a Senior Business Analyst on complex transformation programs
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills (business + IT + vendor coordination)
- Ability to structure discussions, simplify complex topics, and drive decisions
- Knowledge of energy trading and/or US power markets (PJM, ISO-NE, ERCOT, etc.)
- Experience working across time zones and bridging global teams
- Strong analytical skills with good attention to detail
- SQL skills or strong technical awareness (data flows, interfaces, reconciliation concepts)
Desirable
- Experience on ETRM implementations/migrations, especially Orchestrade
- Understanding of: trade lifecycle events, settlement & invoicing, exchange clearing, accounting impacts / P&L / month-end close support
- Familiarity with delivery tools such as Jira/Confluence, test management tools, etc.
Additional Information
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Other facts
About Talan
Talan is an international consulting and technology expertise group that accelerates its clients' transformation through innovation, technology, and data. For over 20 years, Talan has been advising and supporting companies and public institutions in implementing their transformation and innovation projects in France and internationally.
Present on five continents, in 21 countries, the Group, Great Place To Work certified, will have more than 7,100 employees by the end of 2024. It aims to achieve a turnover of 850 million euros in the same year and exceed the one-billion-euro threshold by 2025.
With its research and innovation Centre, Talan puts innovation at the heart of its development and intervenes in the technological mutation sectors, such as Artificial Intelligence, Data Intelligence, Blockchains, to avail the growth of major groups and mid-cap companies through a committed and responsible approach. www.talan.com
By placing "Positive Innovation" at the heart of its strategy, the Talan Group is convinced that it is by serving people that technology amplifies its potential for society.
What you'll do
- The Senior Business Analyst will lead discussions with business users to gather and clarify functional requirements for the ETRM migration. They will also support testing and validation while identifying functional gaps and coordinating resolutions.
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