junior Business Analyst

Job Title:  Junior Business Analyst

Location: New York, New York (Hybrid)

Duration:  Long Term contract

Interview: video and in-person

Energy Management (EM)

Business Systems Portfolio Team

Engagement Request – Business Analyst

Portfolio Description

The Energy Management (EM) department is responsible for the strategic planning, operational oversight, and analytical support of the company’s energy supply and demand portfolio. The group operates at the intersection of energy markets, system reliability, regulatory compliance, and sustainability, supporting both near term operations and long term planning initiatives across electric and gas systems.

Energy Management encompasses multiple functional areas, including commodity operations, forecasting, resource management, and business operations, and plays a key role in balancing reliability, cost, and environmental objectives in a highly regulated environment. The organization develops and maintains analytical tools, data models, and control processes used to support market participation, regulatory filings, operational decision making, and performance reporting.

Engagement Summary

The Energy Management (EM) Commodity Operations team is seeking a hands-on contract resource to execute an end-to-end effort to review, optimize, and automate existing Commodity Operations processes. The contractor will be embedded with Commodity Operations and will take ownership of the full delivery lifecycle—assessing current-state workflows, defining and prioritizing improvements, designing the solution approach, and building/coding the final deliverables through implementation.

This engagement will require the contractor to partner directly with Commodity Operations stakeholders to capture operational needs, document current vs. future state, and translate requirements into an actionable delivery plan and backlog. The contractor will then develop and implement the solutions (including automation, workflow improvements, and supporting tooling), perform iterative validation with the business, and support end-to-end testing through User Acceptance Testing. The contractor will deliver the final product with appropriate documentation, knowledge transfer, and transition support to ensure the solutions are sustainable and usable by the Commodity Operations team.

Role & Responsibilities

• Gather information from multiple sources and critically evaluate business and technical requirements, reconciling conflicts, and disseminating high level information into details and distinguishing user request from their true needs.
• Analyze complex business processes to identify scope.
• Document business requirements based on process mythology and ensure full description and acceptance criteria is captured.
• Collaborate proactively with external and internal customers in order to analyze information needed to develop functional and technical requirements.
• Design and document functional specification requirements, such as Graphical User Interface (GUI) designs, system data flow diagrams, data mapping and input/output device requirements
• Revise and present functional and technical requirements to business.
• Derive and execute Test Cases (QA) based on business and functional requirements as per Acceptance Criteria.
• Create and verify process support documents to include delivered features and or enhancements for knowledge transfer and application support purposes.
• Based upon the input from business constituents, derive a relative prioritization to implement requirements

Required Skillset

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills required
• Strong analytical and data assessment skills, and ability to interpret and collate relevant data
• Ability to document complex business processes and handle all types of client requests
• Experience with the execution of functional test cases to track feature/requirement status
• Expertise in Excel, VB and Macros within Excel

Expertise in Business Process Automation using Power Automate

• Proficient in implementing Business processes using C#
• Extensive Experience with Web Scraping for Acquiring Business Data from Public Sites
• 3 to 4 years’ experience with business automation processing
• BS/BA in Computer Science or related field a PLUS