Market Risk Business Analyst

Job description

Join Accenture and help transform leading organizations and communities around the world. The sheer scale of our capabilities and client engagements and the way we collaborate, operate and deliver value provides an unparalleled opportunity to grow and advance. Choose Accenture, and make delivering innovative work part of your extraordinary career.

Accenture's Trading & Commercial Practice is a global market leader in Strategy, Consulting, and Operations. We are a trusted advisor and guide our clients through the full business-transformation lifecycle. From leading commodity traders and marketers, to producers, utilities, oil supermajors, midstream logistics companies, and commodity consumers, we help our clients define and execute their trading strategies. Through a combination of deep market insight, a scalable delivery framework in trading platforms, and strategic partnerships with industry software leaders, we leverage a world-class and differentiated trading capability that attracts and fosters the best talent in the industry.

As a Consultant within our T&C practice, your key responsibilities may include:

· Assisting clients with business transformations through business process redesign and organizational change management
· Gathering functional requirements and creating functional design deliverables
· Testing of Market Risk applications
· Conducting test planning and execution activities
· Analyze and evaluate production issues
· Developing strong working relationships with clients and team members
· Continuously improving business knowledge, technical capabilities, and problem-solving skills, and helping clients and team members to do the same

Desired profile

Qualifications :

Basic Qualifications

·  At least 5 years of VaR (Value at Risk) and Market Risk experience
·  3-5 years of experience in the Commodities Trading or Investment Banking Industry
·  3-5 years of experience as a Functional Business Analyst
·  Ability to engage with Accenture Analytics to define and position industry-specific analytics solutions
·  Solid understanding of data warehousing
·  Solid knowledge of SQL databases and SDLC (software development life cycle)
·  Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment
·  Ability to analyze and translate large datasets
·  Ability to diagnose, explain, and resolve complex business, process and technology problems
·  Ability to facilitate meetings, lead presentations, and communicate clearly, concisely, and effectively
·  Experience with a leading ETRM/CTRM platform preferred – OpenLink Endur, Allegro, OpenLink RightAngle, Energy Components is preferred
·  Bachelors or advanced degree

All of our consulting professionals receive comprehensive training covering business acumen, technical and professional skills development. You'll also have opportunities to hone your functional skills and expertise in an area of specialization. We offer a variety of formal and informal training programs at every level to help you acquire and build specialized skills faster. Learning takes place both on the job and through formal training conducted online, in the classroom, or in collaboration with teammates. The sheer variety of work we do, and the experience it offers, provide an unbeatable platform from which to build a career.

Applicants for employment in the US must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States and with Accenture (i.e., H1-B visa, F-1 visa (OPT), TN visa or any other non-immigrant status).

Candidates who are currently employed by a client of Accenture or an affiliated Accenture business may not be eligible for consideration.

Accenture is a Federal Contractor and an EEO and Affirmative Action Employer of Females/Minorities/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities.

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