Senior Business Systems Analyst, Middle Office

Marathon Petroleum Corporation•Findlay, OH

4d•Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Business Systems Analyst provides dedicated support to the Middle Office by translating complex risk oversight, performance measurement, data, reporting, and workflow needs into clear business processes, requirements, and technology solutions. Embedded with Middle Office stakeholders and closely connected to Digital delivery teams, this role documents current and target-state processes and data flows, clarifies ownership and controls, identifies gaps and improvement opportunities, and supports solutions from discovery through testing, implementation, and adoption. The position helps create a consistent, efficient operating model across Middle Office, Digital, data management, Commercial technology, and other partner teams. 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.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in Information Systems preferred, related field or equivalent experience.
5+ years of relevant experience required
Experience in the oil and gas, refining, midstream, commodity trading, or energy industry, with an understanding of physical and financial commodity transactions and value-chain operations, preferred.
Experience supporting Middle Office, commercial risk, or performance-measurement capabilities, including operational P&L, mark-to-market valuation, P&L attribution, priced-to-GAAP reconciliation, exposure monitoring, or risk-limit controls, preferred.
Experience documenting and improving business processes, data flows, business rules, controls, ownership, and system interactions across Commercial, Middle Office, Finance, Accounting, Risk, and Digital teams.
Experience with energy trading and risk management systems, risk data platforms, enterprise resource planning systems, market-data feeds, data integration, reporting, analytics, data lineage, and data governance is preferred.
Experience leading requirements definition, user acceptance testing, data and business-rule validation, control evidence, issue resolution, and implementation readiness for complex, cross-functional technology solutions.
Adaptability - Maintaining effectiveness when experiencing major changes in work responsibilities or environment (e.g., people, processes, structure, or culture); adjusting effectively to change by exploring the benefits, trying new approaches, and collaborating with others to make the change successful.
AI Fundamentals - Understanding of core AI concepts and methods, ability to apply AI to job-relevant use cases and capacity to contribute to organizational AI reimagination.
Change Management - Change Management refers to a systematic approach for defining and implementing procedures and/or technologies to deal with changes in the environment. It can mean adapting to change, controlling change and/or effecting change.
Agile Methodologies – 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 (QA) – 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.
Specifications Development - Understanding the context, stakeholders and requirements or features of a product or application and detailing the specifications around them.

Nice To Haves

Experience in the oil and gas, refining, midstream, commodity trading, or energy industry, with an understanding of physical and financial commodity transactions and value-chain operations.
Experience supporting Middle Office, commercial risk, or performance-measurement capabilities, including operational P&L, mark-to-market valuation, P&L attribution, priced-to-GAAP reconciliation, exposure monitoring, or risk-limit controls.
Experience with energy trading and risk management systems, risk data platforms, enterprise resource planning systems, market-data feeds, data integration, reporting, analytics, data lineage, and data governance.

Responsibilities

Leads improvement recommendations and presents effectively to senior and executive management and global teams.
Leads working sessions with Middle Office and cross-functional partners to define current and target-state processes, data flows, business rules, controls, ownership, and system interactions; translates complex operational P&L, risk, reporting, and governance needs into actionable requirements and user stories.
Provides recommendations for appropriate systems alternatives and/or enhancements to current systems.
Partners with business teams to develop ways to investigate business performance and other measures to gain insight and drive business planning.
Leads and serves as a senior resource on cost-benefit and return on investment analyses for proposed systems to aid management in making implementation decisions.
Serves as a resource to colleagues, mentors and helps improve the team’s abilities around all IT Service Management (ITSM) disciplines deployed.
Leads the cross-functional testing strategy for Middle Office solutions, including traceability from requirements through user acceptance testing, validation of data and business rules, defect resolution, control evidence, and readiness for implementation.
Leads the planning, conducting and documenting of user stories, user feedback. Effectively communicates feedback with senior leaders for technology improvement.