Business Systems Analyst

At MPC, we’re committed to being a great place to work – one that welcomes new ideas, encourages diverse perspectives, develops our people, and fosters a collaborative team environment.

This role will be part of a dynamic and fast-paced IT team responsible for supporting MPC’s Energy Trading and Risk Management business value streams. This includes interacting with a mix of commercial off-the-shelf tools such as RightAngle, customized extensions of that tool, as well as in-house-developed applications. The individual will leverage a combination of the responsibilities, experience, and skills detailed below to provide enhancements and issue resolution to the underlying technical solutions as well as address requests for data to drive analytical efforts.    

This position belongs to a family of jobs with increasing responsibility, competency, and skill level. Actual position title and pay grade will be based on the selected candidate’s experience and qualifications.

• Manages the definition of business processes in order to measure, analyze, improve and control the process being reviewed.
• Communicates effectively with stakeholders, aligning the understanding of requirements, and identifying cross functional changes/impacts of the specifications for solution delivery.
• Develops recommendations for appropriate systems alternatives and/or enhancements to current systems.
• Investigates business performance and other measures to gain insight and drive business planning; applies continuous iterative processes.
• Performs cost-benefit and return on investment analyses for proposed systems to aid management in making implementation decisions.
• Supports implementation of ways to improve working processes in the team.
• Supports monitoring the execution of IT service management practices around Incident, Change, Problem and Solution Development Lifecycle  (SDLC) delivery methodologies for improvement and collaboration, including more advanced configuration tasks.
• Coordinates test case development, execution and support of strategy creation for technology delivery.
• Plans, executes, and documents user stories, user feedback to support the development of prototypes and wireframes.

• Bachelors Degree in Information Systems, related field or equivalent experience
• 2+ years of relevant experience
• Experience with RightAngle or other Energy Trading and Risk Management (ETRM) software is preferred
• Experience in Trading, Scheduling, Pricing, Risk, or Inventory Management is preferred
• Oil & Gas industry experience is preferred
• Experience with Microsoft DevOps, ServiceNow, and test case writing and execution is preferred

• Agile Methodology - Agile project management is an iterative approach to delivering a project throughout its life cycle, taking incremental steps towards the completion of a project.
• Analytical Thinking - Strong problem-solving skills to identify architectural challenges, analyze requirements, evaluate options, and propose effective solutions.
• Authentic Communicator - Expresses ideas and information, both verbally and in writing, clearly and credibly. Listens to understand and fosters constructive dialogue.
• Business Analysis - Analyzing current business state within the context of future business state expectations and determining whether new business strategies are needed to address existing issues or meet new needs. Estimating the level of effort to enhance or expand current business strategies.
• Business Partner Relations - The process of acting as a trusted advisor and building strong relationships with colleagues and the business to drive business performance.
• Business Process Modeling & Redesign - Execution of key business process with the objective of achieving a quantum jump in performance measures such as return on investment (ROI), cost reduction, and quality of service.
• Change Management - The process of controlled identification, planning and implementation of required initiatives to prepare, support and help individuals, teams and organizations to navigate through change.
• Continuous Improvement Mindset - Identifies and leads opportunities for continuous improvement and value creation, both incremental and large-scale.
• Incident Management - Ensuring that any incidents affecting processes and performances of relevant technology services or systems are managed appropriately to mitigate risk and minimize disruption.
• Quality Assurance - The process to ensure organizational activities are designed to ensure that an organization is providing the best possible product or service to customers.
• Requirements Management - The process of documenting, analyzing, tracing, prioritizing and agreeing on requirements and then controlling change while also communicating to relevant stakeholders.
• Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) - A process used by the software industry to design, develop and test high-quality software.
• Specification Development - Understanding the context, stakeholders and requirements or features of a product or application and detailing the specifications around them.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, related field or equivalent experience.
2+ years of relevant experience 

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