Capco - Lead Consultant – Commodities

• Commodities Domain Leadership • Demonstrate comprehensive knowledge of physical and financial commodities trading across one or more asset classes, including crude oil, refined products, natural gas, power, LNG, metals, or agricultural commodities. • Advise clients on end-to-end commodities trading processes, including deal capture, contract management, scheduling, logistics, inventory, valuation, risk management, invoicing, settlement, and accounting. • Understand complex commodity contracts, structured deals, pricing formulas, market indices, optionality, delivery obligations, and financial instruments. • Provide functional expertise across trading, middle-office, risk, operations, scheduling, and finance processes. • Analyse existing operating models, identify process inefficiencies and control gaps, and recommend scalable target-state solutions. • Advise on industry practices and emerging requirements affecting commodities trading technology and operating models. • CTRM/ETRM Platform Implementation Leadership • Lead functional delivery for end-to-end CTRM/ETRM implementation, transformation, upgrade, or platform migration programmes. • Drive discovery, requirements definition, fit-gap assessments, solution design, configuration strategy, testing, deployment, and post-go-live stabilisation. • Define functional scope, workstream plans, dependencies, deliverables, and acceptance criteria in collaboration with programme leadership. • Translate complex business requirements into scalable functional designs aligned with standard platform capabilities and enterprise architecture. • Challenge requirements and proposed customisations to balance business needs, platform capability, maintainability, and total cost of ownership. • Oversee configuration of deal capture, contracts, pricing, market data, valuation, risk, scheduling, settlements, and reporting workflows, as relevant to the selected platform. • Lead functional design reviews and ensure consistency across business processes, platform configuration, integrations, and downstream systems. • Manage functional dependencies across multiple workstreams, regions, commodities, and business units. • Support vendor evaluations, platform selection, proof-of-concept exercises, and solution demonstrations where required. • Solution Design and Business Transformation • Lead workshops with senior business stakeholders to define business requirements, strategic objectives, and target operating models. • Develop current-state assessments, future-state process designs, functional solution blueprints, and implementation roadmaps. • Define end-to-end business process flows and functional design principles across physical and financial trading. • Identify opportunities to standardise processes, reduce manual intervention, strengthen controls, and improve operational efficiency. • Assess the impact of platform changes on trading, risk, operations, finance, data, and reporting functions. • Work closely with solution and technical architects to ensure that functional designs align with integration, data, security, and enterprise architecture principles. • Drive resolution of complex functional design decisions and cross-functional process conflicts. • Establish requirements traceability and ensure alignment between business objectives, functional designs, testing, and implementation outcomes. • Commodities Risk, Valuation, and Trade Lifecycle • Provide functional oversight for trade capture, contract management, position management, mark-to-market (MtM) valuation, profit and loss (P&L), and exposure reporting. • Guide the design of pricing methodologies, market data curves, price index mappings, valuation controls, and risk reporting processes. • Support implementation of risk management capabilities covering market risk, commodity price exposure, counterparty exposure, and relevant credit risk workflows. • Oversee physical trading processes involving inventory, scheduling, nominations, logistics, delivery, and volume reconciliation, where applicable. • Lead functional design for settlements, invoicing, payment processing, accounting events, and financial reconciliations. • Ensure consistency of trade and risk data across CTRM/ETRM, market data, ERP, accounting, and enterprise reporting systems. • Support investigation of complex valuation, P&L, position, and trade reconciliation issues. • Integration, Data Migration, and Technical Coordination • Define functional integration requirements between CTRM/ETRM platforms and exchanges, brokers, market data providers, logistics systems, ERP, treasury, risk, and reporting platforms. • Oversee source-to-target data mapping, interface specifications, business validation rules, and reconciliation approaches. • Lead functional assessment of legacy data migration, including trades, contracts, counterparties, market data, positions, and relevant historical information. • Collaborate with technical teams on API specifications, interface design, data models, and integration testing. • Establish data quality, completeness, consistency, and control requirements for critical trading and risk information. • Review migration and reconciliation results, resolve business data issues, and support migration sign-off. • Ensure functional readiness across upstream and downstream systems before production deployment. • Programme Delivery and Governance • Own assigned functional workstreams and ensure delivery against agreed scope, milestones, quality standards, and budget commitments. • Develop workstream plans, resource estimates, delivery dependencies, RAID logs, and stakeholder reporting. • Lead functional design reviews, solution walkthroughs, and implementation governance forums. • Manage scope changes, competing priorities, escalations, and delivery risks. • Coordinate business, technology, testing, data, architecture, and vendor teams throughout the implementation lifecycle. • Drive SIT, UAT, end-to-end testing, performance validation where applicable, cutover rehearsals, and production-readiness assessments. • Lead go-live planning, business readiness, cutover execution, and post-implementation stabilisation activities. • Establish quality assurance practices and ensure that project artefacts meet agreed delivery standards. • Senior Stakeholder and Client Management • Act as a trusted functional advisor to trading heads, risk leadership, operations management, finance stakeholders, and programme sponsors. • Facilitate senior-level discussions to align business priorities, resolve design decisions, and obtain stakeholder approvals. • Communicate complex business and technical matters clearly to executive, business, and technology audiences. • Manage expectations, negotiate priorities, and proactively address stakeholder concerns. • Present recommendations, solution options, implementation risks, and delivery progress to senior stakeholders. • Build productive relationships with platform vendors, systems integrators, and client leadership teams. • Team Leadership and Practice Development • Lead, mentor, and coach business analysts, functional consultants, and junior workstream members. • Review requirements, functional designs, test artefacts, and deliverables produced by the team. • Define reusable implementation methodologies, templates, functional accelerators, and domain knowledge assets. • Contribute to proposal development, effort estimation, solution presentations, and client pursuits where applicable. • Identify opportunities for platform optimisation, additional consulting services, and follow-on transformation initiatives. • Support capability development and knowledge sharing across commodities and CTRM/ETRM consulting teams.