Senior Business Analyst Energy

Senior Business Analyst – Energy
Location: Houston, Texas
Employment Type: Contract
Work Arrangement: Onsite
Role Summary
We are seeking a strong Business Analyst with experience analyzing business processes, gathering requirements, and preparing detailed process and solution documentation. The ideal candidate should have excellent stakeholder-management skills and preferably have experience in the energy, oil and gas, utilities, or commodity-trading domain.
Key Responsibilities
• Work with business and technology stakeholders to understand business needs, challenges, and objectives.
• Conduct workshops and interviews to gather and validate business and functional requirements.
• Analyze current-state processes and identify gaps, risks, and improvement opportunities.
• Develop current-state and future-state process maps, workflows, and operating procedures.
• Prepare Business Requirements Documents, Functional Requirements Documents, user stories, use cases, and process-design documents.
• Translate business requirements into clear specifications for technical and delivery teams.
• Coordinate with product owners, developers, architects, testing teams, and business users throughout the project lifecycle.
• Support solution design, testing, user acceptance testing, implementation, and change-management activities.
• Maintain requirements traceability and ensure that delivered solutions meet business expectations.
• Provide regular project updates and help resolve requirement-related issues.

Required Skills
• 4+ years of experience as a Business Analyst in technology or business-transformation projects.
• Strong experience in requirements gathering, business-process analysis, and process mapping.
• Experience creating process flows using tools such as Microsoft Visio, Lucidchart, or similar platforms.
• Strong documentation skills, including BRDs, FRDs, user stories, use cases, functional specifications, and standard operating procedures.
• Experience working with both business and technical stakeholders.
• Good understanding of Agile and Waterfall delivery methodologies.
• Experience supporting UAT, defect resolution, implementation, and process improvements.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work from the Houston office as required.

Preferred Skills
• Experience in the energy, oil and gas, utilities, power, commodities, or energy-trading domain.
• Understanding of front-, middle-, or back-office energy processes.
• Experience with ETRM, ERP, CRM, workflow, or enterprise transformation projects.
• Familiarity with Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Visio, PowerPoint, and Excel.