Koch Industries

Trading Business Analyst

Koch Industries$80K — $120K *
Energy & Utilities
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 4+ years as a business analyst, business systems analyst, or process analyst
  • 3+ years writing business requirements and functional specifications
  • 3+ years IT experience in energy or energy trading
  • Familiarity with structured software development methodologies (Agile, Waterfall)

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with business and IT teams to support the North American Natural Gas business
  • Engage with diverse user groups across functional and IT departments
  • Ensure system integrity and conduct process improvement analysis
  • Drive user-friendly and flexible technology solutions
  • Lead enhancements to technology platforms for efficient commodity management

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Flexible spending and health savings accounts
  • Life insurance and disability coverage
  • Retirement plan options with contributions
  • Paid vacation and time off, including parental leave and adoption assistance
Full Job Description
Your Job

Koch Ag & Energy Solutions is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Business Analyst to support our North American Natural Gas business. This role involves building partnerships with our trading capabilities and working on transformational improvements that foster business growth. The Business Analyst will collaborate with users to gather and refine requirements for natural gas-related business functionality, which they will then translate into functional requirements for the development team. This person will be required to understand the technical team's proposed solution to ensure it meets the functional requirements. Additionally, the Business Analyst will be responsible for conducting timely research of data issues and addressing abnormalities or unexpected behaviors.

A successful applicant will understand and communicate business activities and key drivers to a diverse audience and exhibit leadership skills necessary to interact with each department reliant on system information. The candidate must have strong business acumen and advanced system skills to quickly adapt to the learning curve, as well as the ability to prioritize and reprioritize as issues arise.

**This role will be based in our Wichita, KS or Houston, TX office, with the ability to work a hybrid schedule.**

What You Will Do
  • Work alongside business and information technology resources responsible for supporting our North American Natural Gas business.
  • Work closely with a broad range of business users in various functional user groups and information technology groups.
  • Ensure system integrity, analysis around new business, process improvement, and system testing.
  • Drive solutions which are flexible, user friendly, and match the needs of our ever-growing knowledge base company.
  • Drive enhancements and projects to our technology platform to ensure it is interactive, flexible, and intuitive for the end-user community to obtain the necessary insights to manage a commodity-based business.


Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
  • 4+ years of experience in a business analyst, business systems analyst, or process analyst role
  • 3+ years of experience writing business requirements, detailed designs and functional specifications
  • 3+ years of IT related experience in the energy industry or in energy trading
  • Experience with a structured software development methodology such as Agile, Waterfall, etc.


What Will Put You Ahead
  • Knowledge of and experience in North American Natural Gas business
  • Experience with Gas related systems such as Openlink, ETRM, Logistics, ICE, and Pipeline Bulletin Boards
  • Experience supporting the following Openlink Modules: Trader Desktop, Deal Modeling, Scheduling (gMotion) and/or (cMotion), Position & Pnl Reporting, Scheduling Interfaces (Gas Hub / EBB), and Active Position Management
  • Working knowledge of Deal Modeling, PNL and Position reporting, PNL calculations for linear and non-linear deals, and working knowledge of Parametric VaR
  • Experience interacting with internal customers from front office to back office including familiarity with Front Office, Scheduling, Middle Office, Credit Risk, settlements/Accounting and Market Risk processes of wholesale, asset management transactions.
  • Familiarity with data driven solutions, reporting and analytic tools


At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Hiring Philosophy

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here .

Who We Are

As a Koch company, Koch Ag & Energy Solutions (KAES) is a global provider of value-added solutions for the agriculture, turf and ornamental, energy and chemical markets. From agriculture to energy, KAES makes things grow better with plant nutrient and biological technologies. Our team of innovators unleash their potential while developing the technologies that feed and power the world.

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here , aquí , or tu ).

About Koch Industries

Koch Industries, Inc. is an American privately-held multinational conglomerate corporation based in Wichita, Kansas. Its subsidiaries are involved in the manufacturing, refining, and distribution of petroleum, chemicals, energy, fiber, intermediates and polymers, minerals, fertilizers, pulp and paper, chemical technology equipment, ranching, finance, commodities trading, and investing. Koch owns Infor, Invista, Georgia-Pacific, Molex, Flint Hills Resources, Koch Pipeline, Koch Fertilizer, Koch Minerals, Matador Cattle Company, i360, and Guardian Industries. The firm employs 120,000 people in 60 countries, with about half of its business in the United States. The company is the largest non-Canadian landowner in the Athabasca oil sands. With annual revenues of $110 billion by 2014, the company is the largest privately held company in the United States. In 2007, it was ranked as the largest privately held company. If Koch Industries had been a public company in 2013, it would have ranked 17th in the Fortune 500. The company was founded by its namesake, Fred C. Koch, in 1940 after he developed an innovative crude oil refining process. Fred C. Koch died in 1967 and his majority interest in the company was split amongst his four sons. In June 1983, after a bitter legal and boardroom battle, the stakes of Frederick R. Koch and William "Bill" Koch were bought out for $1.1 billion and Charles Koch and David Koch became majority owners in the company. Charles owns 42% of the company; trusts for the benefit of Elaine Tettemer Marshall and Elaine's children, Preston Marshall and E. Pierce Marshall Jr., own 16% of the company. The heirs of David Koch, who died on August 23, 2019, own the balance, 42%, of the corporation.
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