Business Analyst

Business Analyst

Habitat Energy is a fast growing technology company focussed on the physical and financial optimisation of energy storage and renewable generation assets globally through complex models and trading. By maximising the returns from these assets we aim to drive investment in renewable energy and accelerate the transition to a low carbon world. Our rapidly growing team of 110+ people in Austin, TX, Oxford, UK, and Melbourne, Australia brings together exceptionally talented and passionate people in the domains of energy trading, data science, software engineering and renewable energy management.

We have a vacancy for a Business Analyst to join our team in Melbourne. This role is crucial to ensuring the requirements of our commercial teams, principally traders, are accurately captured, defined, and translated into actionable insights for our technical teams. Your work will directly influence the profitability and efficiency of our trading strategies by ensuring our technology is perfectly aligned with commercial needs. You will act as a collaborative partner, fostering seamless communication and alignment  by bringing together the fast-paced world of energy trading and our software development lifecycle. Working closely with commercial and technical leads you'll help to shape the product roadmap and ensure user stories are centrally tracked in a clear and concise fashion ready for development. This is a great fit for someone with experience in a business analysis or requirements engineering role who is comfortable in a highly dynamic commercial environment and skilled at translating complex user needs into technical specifications.

You'll play a key role in:

• Bringing together our commercial trading team and our technical delivery teams.
• Leading requirements gathering sessions with traders and other commercial stakeholders to deeply understand their needs, workflows, and pain points.
• Translating commercial needs into clear, well-defined user stories, acceptance criteria, and functional specifications understood by the technology team.
• Contributing to the product roadmap, ensuring captured requirements align with business strategy and are effectively prioritised, with an opportunity to grow into a leadership role in this area.
• Supporting the agile delivery process by clarifying requirements, answering questions from the technical delivery team, encouraging  communication and user involvement, and facilitating direct collaboration of tech & users throughout the build phase.
• Analysing and validating that the solutions developed meet the original business objectives and user requirements.
• Managing stakeholder expectations by ensuring clear and consistent communication between all parties.
  

You will be responsible for:

• Partnering with the commercial team to define and articulate their technology requirements.
• Creating and maintaining a clear and organised backlog of user & functional requirements, primarily through user stories in JIRA.
• Ensuring that business context and the "why" behind a requirement are clearly communicated across the commercial and technical delivery teams.
• Working closely with the commercial team to understand requirements originating from external customers.
• Facilitating workshops and interviews to elicit detailed requirements from users.
• Ensuring alignment between the commercial stakeholders and the technical delivery team on the scope and definition of a given feature or project.
• Promoting transparent communication across teams, ensuring that expectations, dependencies, and priorities are well understood.
• Providing updates to ensure transparency and alignment of requirements and outcomes within projects. 

Preferred skills and experience:

• Proven experience as a Business Analyst, or in a similar role where you were responsible for gathering and defining user requirements for software development.
• Experience working closely with a commercial or business-focused team, such as traders, sales, or account managers.
• Expertise with agile development methodologies and workflow management tools, particularly JIRA.
• Experience with roadmapping tools like ProductBoard is highly advantageous.
• Exceptional communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills, with an ability to translate between technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a talent for breaking down complex problems into manageable components.
• Self-motivated, detail-oriented, and able to work independently in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Evidence of being able to successfully navigate competing priorities and manage the expectations of demanding stakeholders.
• A technical background or experience working directly with software development 

'Nice to have' skills and experience:

• Experience working in the energy, finance, or commodities trading sector.
• Business Analysis certifications.

Ultimately we are looking for someone who is a great fit for our company so we encourage you to apply even if you may not meet every requirement in this posting. We value diversity and our environment is supportive, challenging and focused on the consistent delivery of high quality, meaningful work.

Ultimately we are looking for someone who is a great fit for our company so we encourage you to apply even if you may not meet every requirement in this posting. We value diversity and our environment is supportive, challenging and focused on the consistent delivery of high quality, meaningful work.

In return, we'll give you a competitive salary, flexible working arrangements and a lot of personal development opportunities. We operate a hybrid working model with some time requirement in our office in Melbourne. This role is ideally suited for a part-time arrangement, though full-time applicants will also be considered.

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