Senior Business Analyst

💼Job Title: Business Analyst

👨‍💻Job Type: Contract

👨‍💻Who can apply: Freelancers

📍Location: Brussels Belgium

📍Language: English and French

💼Work regime: Hybrid (2 days/week onsite)

🔥Keywords: Business Analyst, IT Business Analyst, IT Tools, Product Owner, Scrum, Agile

Sector: our client is a leading company in the energy sector, renowned for its expertise in transmission and distribution networks. It plays a vital role in ensuring the reliability and efficiency of electricity supply across regions. With a commitment to innovation and sustainability, this company invests in cutting-edge technologies to optimize grid operations and integrate renewable energy sources.

Position Overview:

As Business Analyst within the Customers, Markets and System operations (CMS) department, the consultant will be at the very heart of the interactions between Business and IT that are giving rise to this energy system of the future. The consultant’s central role will contribute to the company's technological advancement and will help it achieve its ambitious goals.

We are helping to transform the energy landscape with a view to supporting European climate policy. Our mission is to deliver the infrastructure of the future and innovate services that will pave the way to a reliable and sustainable electricity system, placing the community's interest at the heart of all our decisions.

CMS supports the Belgian path to a carbon-neutral society by embracing the role of policy advisor and customer partner and by designing the system of the future in which the consumer is central. AT the same time, CMS guarantees the safe operation of the electrical system by optimizing the use of the assets, improving our visibility and our understanding of the system, developing methods and tools for stability challenges, automating complex tasks and using production and flexibility tools to implement a new market design and a powerful price signal. This goes hand in hand with the digital transformation within our core business.

Customers: manages the relationships and contracts with our customers; develops consumer-oriented services; is responsible for invoicing and metering also, for reporting and transparency

National Control Center (NCC): regulates the energy flows on the grid in an international context (grid management); ensures a permanent balance between production/import & consumption/export.

Grid Development (GD): identifies long-term needs and performs a cost-benefit analysis of grid development; draws up federal and regional investment plans; performs system analyses and security of supply studies.

Markets: is responsible for designing the energy market; develops products and services for efficient energy trading and a stable grid; organizes energy purchases for ancillary services; provides advice on market transparency and compliance.

What you'll do:

As part of the implementation of IT projects in the Customers, Markets & System Department, the consultant will be responsible for the following:

Support the business in developing designs for new products and in driving the ongoing evolution of existing products.

Define business expectations and model the information and the operational processes leading to the design or ongoing evolution of IT tools.

Model the business data involved in development and evolution and accompany the development of an enterprise data warehouse.

Based on business needs, the consultant will analyse and describe the requirements for the solution.

As a Product Owner employing agile/scrum methodology, the consultant will establish the product backlog and define its priorities in collaboration with key project stakeholders.

Validate the functional analysis supplied by IT to check that the proposed solution completely meets specifications.

Validate implementations made at the end of each sprint by preparing test cases and running them.

Coordinate the implementation of applications from different fields within cross-functional projects.

Support the business in specifying and running software validation tests (UAT) and you will coordinate integration tests within cross-functional projects.

Train and help the business to use tools optimally.

What you bring:

You have at least six years of relevant experience, or six years of experience in a similar role.

You have an excellent command of Dutch and/or French and a good command of English.

You have a degree in civil engineering or commercial engineering, a master's degree in science or an equivalent degree.

You have in-depth knowledge of business process modelling and data modelling (business information modelling).

You have in-depth knowledge of writing and validating functional specifications.

You have a thorough knowledge of agile/scrum methodology and practical experience as a Scrum Product Owner.

You have excellent analytical and conceptual skills.

You have initial professional experience in the energy field.

You can work independently and efficiently, you take initiatives and you work in a solution-oriented manner.

You have good project management skills.

You are very customer-focused, flexible, and critically minded. You are a true team player.

A little about us:

Innova Solutions is a diverse and award-winning global technology services partner. We provide our clients with strategic technology, talent, and business transformation solutions, enabling them to be leaders in their field.

1. Founded in 1998, headquartered in Atlanta (Duluth), Georgia.
2. Employs over 50,000 professionals worldwide, with annual revenue approaching $3.0B.
3. Delivers strategic technology and business transformation solutions globally.
4. Operates through global delivery centers across North America, Asia, and Europe.
5. Provides services for data center migration and workload development for cloud service providers.

Awardee of prestigious recognitions including:

1. Women’s Choice Awards - Best Companies to Work for Women & Millennials, 2024
2. Forbes, America’s Best Temporary Staffing and Best Professional Recruiting Firms, 2023
3. American Best in Business, Globee Awards, Healthcare Vulnerability Technology Solutions, 2023
4. Global Health & Pharma, Best Full Service Workforce Lifecycle Management Enterprise, 2023
5. Received 3 SBU Leadership in Business Awards
6. Stevie International Business Awards, Denials Remediation Healthcare Technology Solutions, 2023