Senior Business Consultant - RightAngle

The Role:

Join our Delivery Services team where opportunities are available to grow your consulting skills with award-winning software solutions. ION consultants engage with prominent energy and commodities clients all over the world. Our open roles include the Senior Business Consultant position responsible for contributing to the success of the projects by providing software and industry expertise. Within this role you will participate as a member of a team dedicated to providing world class implementation services to our clients.

We are hiring for this role at our Gurugram, Bangalore, Noida, and Pune offices.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide industry and functional advice and troubleshooting in the discovery workshop, design, implementation, testing, and production support of the Product solution for the client's business needs.
• Present the Product solution to client users.
• Support the deliverables of the Technical Consultants by providing business and functional guidance, review, testing, and validation of scripted solutions (reports, plugins, and interfaces) as directed by Product Manager
• Consult with client users to determine business requirements and work processes to be addressed by one or more areas of the Product solution.
• Demonstrate deep knowledge in one or more areas of Product configuration and in one or more energy commodities.
• Provide guidance to Business Consultants in one or more functional areas of the Product solution.
• Assist with professional services best practices as directed by Line Manager
• Assume hands-on project implementation duties in all phases of the Product implementation, reporting to the Project Manager
• Gather and document business requirements, configuration designs, test plans/results, and any other deliverables required by the project as determined by the Project Manager and Lead Business Consultant
• Keep Line Manager and Project Manager(s) informed regarding the status of assigned responsibilities.
• Adhere to implementation best practices in one or more functional areas of the ION solution in all functional design, specifications, custom coding, unit testing, and other deliverables.
• Follow ION documentation standards and resolution process flow for all deliverables.
• Maintain full chargeability on client account(s) as assigned.

Required Skills, Experience and Qualifications:

• Implementation experience is preferred with the RightAngle application, but relevant ETRM background will be considered.
• Experience required with one or more of the following areas:
• Accounting: Candidate must have implementation experience with accounting coding and transaction typing, accounts payable/receivables, inventory reconciliation, inventory valuation (WACOG), tax, invoicing templates, pay terms, counterparty set up, accruals, LCM entries, cashflows (cash receipts/disbursements) and aging, derivatives (realized and unrealized). Additionally, the capability to troubleshoot issues and errors is critical.
• Scheduling: Candidate must have strong knowledge of scheduling concepts in ETRM systems. Implementation experience necessary with transportation (trucks, rail, waterborne, pipeline, product transfers), storage, 3rd party storage, exchanges, and processing (fractionation, blending, and refining), inventory management, position reporting, tariff and fees capture. Specific RightAngle features capabilities a plus including Inventory Workbench, Voyage Workbench, Auto matcher, Over/Under Lift Engine, Volume Caps, Scheduling Workbench, Position reporting, ATM (Asset Transaction Management), Templates (Movement and Order), Order Roll, Scheduling Ob management, provisions, date rules, UOMs, incoterms, book letters, NOS, Lease Crude (Canadian and US), RINS, Volume to Mass conversions/impacts, Supply/Demand reporting.
• Front Office: Candidate must have strong knowledge of Trading concepts. Capabilities should include experience with both physical (purchases, sales, exchange for physicals (EFP), buy/sells, exchanges, etc.), financial instruments (Futures, Options, OTC Swaps, OTC Options, FX Swaps, Exchange Traded Options, etc.) and master agreements. Knowledge of GT&Cs, contract management, pricing constructs, incoterms, and trade approvals desired. Experience with pricing indices (OPIS, NYMEX, ICE, PLATTS, Argus), price curve capture/interfacing, gravity and quality adjustments, contracts/confirms, credit (netting, collateral, exposure, reporting), RINs, LCFS, proof of sustainability, volume to mass conversions/impacts, inhouse deals/rules, portfolios/strategies, limits, Lease Crude (US and Canadian), and position reporting.
• Mid Office/Risk: Candidate must have strong knowledge of mid-office and risk concepts. Capabilities should include experience with financial deals (cleared futures and options, OTC swaps, OTC options, FX swaps, etc.), book structure, price curve configuration (calendars, quote periods, delivery periods. Specific RightAngle features capabilities a plus including Price Service Maintenance, Price Curve Maintenance, Curve Calculation Configurations (Forward, Market; Derived), date rules, provisions, default fees, inhouse transactions (inhouse deals, inhouse rules, embedded inhouse provisions; transfer pricing), exposure reporting flat vs basis, decomposition, exposure by day, etc.), MTM reporting, risk limits (position limits, MTM PnLlimits), broker reconciliation, and derivative P&Sing, exchange integration, credit reporting/configuration credit counterparty setup, credit instruments, sub lining, credit check configuration, credit exposure reporting, credit available reporting, etc.), VaR and stress testing, and option valuation
• Industry: Crude, Lease Crude, NGLs (natural gas liquids), Refined Products, Biofuels, Coal, Airlines, Pipeline Operations, Rack/Retail Business
• 5+ years of experience in designing, configuring, and troubleshooting Product installations in client environments of experience.
• Bachelor's degree in one of the following: Finance, Accounting, Engineering, Economics, or a related IT field or equivalent experience in a related field
• Ability to work as part of a project team structure.
• Ability to work onsite at client locations.

About us

We're a diverse group of visionary innovators who provide trading and workflow automation software, high-value analytics, and strategic consulting to corporations, central banks, financial institutions, and governments. Founded in 1999, we've achieved tremendous growth by bringing together some of the best and most successful financial technology companies in the world.

Over 2,000 of the world's leading corporations, including 50% of the Fortune 500 and 30% of the world's central banks, trust ION solutions to manage their cash, in-house banking, commodity supply chain, trading and risk.

Over 800 of the world's leading banks and broker-dealers use our electronic trading platforms to operate the world's financial market infrastructure.

ION is a rapidly expanding and dynamic group with 13,000 employees and offices in more than 40 cities around the globe,

Our ever-expanding global footprint, cutting edge products, and over 40,000 customers worldwide provide an unparalleled career experience for those who share our vision.