ETRM Consultant, Energy Consulting Practice (Remote)

at  Cognizant

ABOUT US

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PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS:

• Any Graduation/ MBA
• 10 to 16 years of work experience
• Strong experience in IT consulting and business analysis – business process definition, requirements gathering, Functional designs, product solution design, proficiency in writing complex BRD, FSD, and user stories.
• Majority of experience should be in business consulting in either of the following domains:
  o Commodities Trading
  o Derivatives/Capital Markets
  o Gas and Power utilities

PREFERRED SKILLSET FOR ETRM:

• Exposure to front office functions of ETRM trading landscape – deal capture, deal pricing, hedging, PnL, Valuation, Derivatives, confirmations
• Exposure to middle office/Operations functions of ETRM trading landscape – Close of business, risk reports – VaR, PNL, MTM, Credit risk and logistics functions like gas scheduling, pipeline management, storages, optimization, shipping, tank optimization, etc.
• Exposure to back office functions like invoicing, settlements and accounting

• Act as a interface between the Business teams and technical teams to determine key design/process decisions and contribute to the overall delivery plan.
• Document as is business processes, design to be processes and implement solutions on the ETRM platform - Endur
• Contribute and take ownership for various project-related tasks/planning activities as the program evolves.
• Demonstrate ability in planning consulting/functional work & ownership of project outcomes.
• Detailed knowledge of trade life cycle in the Energy Trading and Risk Management (ETRM) domain with focus on US Natural Gas market
• Hands on experience on all Endur modules – deal modelling, new market set up, reference and static data, settlements desktop, DMS and report builder etc.
• 10+ years of Endur/ETRM experience
• Good understanding of US gas markets, pricing, scheduling, settlements, etc.