Introduction
A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You'll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you'll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You'll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences.
Your Role And Responsibilities
- Capture business problems, value drivers, and functional/non-functional requirements and translate into functionality.
- Assess the risks, feasibility, opportunities, and business impact.
- Assess and model processes, data flows, and technology to understand the current value and issues, and identify opportunities for improvement.
- Create / update clear documentation of requirements to align with the solution over the project lifecycle.
- Ensure traceability of requirements from business needs through testing and scope changes, to final solution.
- Interact with software suppliers, designers and developers to understand software limitations, deliver elements of system and database design, and ensure that business requirements and use cases are handled.
- Configure and document software and processes, using agreed standards and tools.
- Create acceptance criteria and validate that solutions me
- The ability to be a team player
- The ability and skill to train other people in procedural and technical topics
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
Preferred Education
Master's Degree
Required Technical And Professional Expertise
- Experience in EE&U asset management
- Liaison between business and tech team for feature upgrade and implementation
- Core Skills & Responsibilities:
- Risk Domain Knowledge
- Knowledge of Credit Risk functions
- Understanding of Commodity Derivatives & Price curves
- Understanding of Metrics such as PFE, EPE, VaR, Stress Testing etc.
- Understanding of Risk Reporting: Exposure, PNL, Limit reporting
- Good to have experience across different commodity trading businesses (Crude, Products, Power, Gas, LNG etc)
- Good to have experience in ETRM systems such Endur, Aligne etc.
- Business Analysis
- Requirements Management: Elicit, document, and trace business and functional requirements.
- Process & Data Analysis: Map current processes, identify gaps, and recommend improvements.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Lead workshops, manage stakeholders, and drive solution alignment.
- Testing & Validation: Define acceptance criteria, support UAT, and ensure business needs are met.
- Knowledge Leadership: Own end-to-end analysis for strategic initiatives; act as SME for requirements.
- Performance Management: Balance multiple priorities and bridge business-IT communication.
- Strong verbal and written communication.
- Ability to translate business needs into clear user stories/specs.
- Facilitate workshops and walkthroughs effectively.
- Tools & Methodologies
- Proficient in: Excel, SQL, Power BI/Tableau, JIRA, Confluence.
- Experience with Agile and Waterfall delivery models.
Preferred Technical And Professional Experience
- Good communication skills
- Maintain documentation
- Business Process Modeling, Change Management, UI/UX Design Thinking
- Data Visualization, Analytics, and Modeling
- Generative AI Use Cases, Storytelling
- Testing and T&S Domain Knowledge:
- Understanding of trading lifecycle (pre-deal to settlement)
- Familiarity with ETRM systems (Endur, Aligne, etc.)
- Awareness of commodity markets and regulatory compliance
