Business Analyst - Renewable Compliance Services

  • Full-time

Company Description

Customized Energy Solutions (CES), a privately-held company, is a leading service provider of market intelligence and operational support services to companies participating in the retail and wholesale electric and natural gas markets. Utilizing deep know-how developed since the inception of the deregulated energy markets, CES provides accurate & timely analysis on regulatory changes, market opportunities, and operational efficiencies for electricity and natural gas commodities.

Join a rapidly growing company in an exciting and dynamic work environment. As one of the top 100 fastest growing companies in the Philadelphia region, Customized Energy Solutions offers an opportunity for significant professional growth. Our team of associates at CES is highly motivated, innovative, and passionate about providing excellent Services to our clients. We look for individuals interested in growing with our company, and working in an exciting, open and collegial work environment. Our main office is in Philadelphia, with satellite offices in various U.S. states, Canada, Japan and in India.

Job Description

Customized Energy Solutions is hiring a Business Analyst in its Philadelphia office to provide support to its Renewable Energy and Compliance team. The role will be responsible for all requirements specifications, high-level design concepts, and quality assurance testing work in the development of moderately-complex web-based tools to track and manage client positions, renewable energy credits, and regulatory and compliance processes. The successful candidate will be a highly-motivated self-starter able to work independently and as part of a team.  Being extremely detail oriented and a person of integrity are essential qualities, as is an ability to handle new tasks and manage multiple projects and competing priorities.

Representative Duties:

  • Engage directly with Business leadership and subject matter experts to understand scope and elicit business requirements
  • Organize and translate business requirements into functional requirements
  • Engage with Business and IT leadership to define non-functional requirements
  • Work closely with Development resources to create and refine designs for application workflows, data structures, and user interfaces
  • Create and execute quality assurance test plans, cases, and scripts
  • Coordinate with Development and IT release management resources to ensure successful software deployments
  • Participate in production support analysis and remediation activities

Qualifications

 

  • 4+ years relevant work experience as a business analyst in a software development environment
  • Direct experience creating project scoping documents
  • Direct experience creating high-level business requirement documents, functional requirements specifications, and non-functional requirements specifications
  • Experience designing user experience/interface of client-facing web applications
  • Experience writing SQL queries (Microsoft Transact-SQL)
  • Demonstrated ability to work as part of a team executing agile and/or waterfall projects
  • Excellent planning, organizational, and time management skills
  • Excellent communication and process documentation skills
  • Ability to work well in a deadline-driven, self-managed environment
  • Ability to think “outside the box” by developing and implementing improvements to processes and tools.

Preferred:

  • Experience within the Energy/Utility industry. Renewable energy experience a plus
  • Background in finance, economics, or related field
  • Experience managing agile (Jira) sprints and/or waterfall projects to monitor progress and performance of full software development lifecycle activities
  • Experience in data modeling and data transformation

 

Additional Information

Customized Energy Solutions offers competitive salary commensurate with experience.  Benefits include performance bonus and profit sharing Medical Savings Account, comprehensive health Insurance, disability insurance, life insurance, and 401K matching and tuition reimbursement. Excellent opportunities for advancement.