Senior Business Analyst

Om jobbet

At Vattenfall, we don't just "do energy" - we help our customers power their lives in ever more climate-smart ways. Our ambition is clear: to enable fossil-free living within one generation.

If you are looking for meaningful challenges and want to play an active role in the energy transition, join our diverse and talented team and help shape the future of energy.

Your role

We are now looking for aSenior Business Analystto join ourHamburg office, with a solid background in the energy industry. In this role, you will lead complex analysis initiatives, work closely with senior stakeholders, and translate strategic goals into measurable business value across trading, assets, and operations.

What success looks like

You are successful when you are seen as a trusted partner to senior stakeholders - someone who can turn complex and ambiguous challenges into clear decisions, structured requirements, and outcomes that are actually implemented.

You proactively shape initiatives rather than only supporting them, ensuring that strategy is translated into tangible results.

Your responsibilities

In this role, you will:

• Lead end-to-end business analysis initiatives and present insights and recommendations to senior stakeholders
• Drive problem and opportunity analyses, including root cause identification and development of target operating models
• Facilitate workshops and stakeholder sessions to align business and IT perspectives
• Translate business needs into clear, structured, and solution-agnostic business requirements
• Collaborate with Solution Architects and Product Owners to define and refine solution requirements
• Manage requirements throughout their full lifecycle: prioritisation, validation, change impact assessment, traceability, and acceptance
• Support larger initiatives and tenders by structuring requirements and evaluating solution options
• Contribute to continuous improvement of tools, methods, and ways of working within BA Markets

Qualifications

Your profile

We believe you bring:

• 6+ years of experience as a Business Analyst in complex environments
• Proven experience within the energy industry (e.g. utilities, energy trading, commodities, market operations)
• Strong stakeholder management and facilitation skills, with confidence working with senior leadership
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to challenge the status quo constructively
• Ability to conduct independent research and translate findings into value-driven recommendations
• A structured mindset and the ability to move from ambiguity to clarity, producing decision-ready material
• Confidence working across business and IT in large, cross-functional initiatives

Why Vattenfall

At Vattenfall, you will be part of a company where your work truly matters. We offer:

• A role at the core of the energy transition with real societal impact
• High stakeholder exposure and the opportunity to influence key decisions
• A collaborative and experienced Business Analyst community within BA Markets
• Flexible working arrangements and an international environment

Additional Information

Benefits

Your developmentis a priority at Vattenfall BA Markets. Your professional journey will benefit from working in the exciting industry of energy trading, and in interdisciplinary teams. To support your career, we offer opportunities to grow through training, job rotations, talent programs and a working environment that stimulates learning.

Our work culture at Vattenfall is excellent. We have an open corporate culture with flat hierarchies. Modern and flexible working conditions, including mobile work, promote wellbeing. In Germany, our work week consists of 37.5 hours with, in many cases, the possibility to work part-time. Up to 49% of your working time can be mobile work, and you are entitled to 30 days of vacation per year.

Your health is important to us. We provide several health programs and support throughout potentially challenging life situations.

Your colleagueswill be another highlight. We employ inspiring people with diverse backgrounds. Together with our culture and your tasks, they form an interesting and fun place to work.

You can find our new state of the art office next to Elbbrücken.

More information
We welcome your application in English, no later than 8th of March 2026. We kindly request that you do not send applications by any means other than via our website as we cannot guarantee that we will be able to process applications that are not made via our website.

For more information about the recruitment process you are welcome to contact our RecruiterJil Ungethüm via phone at +49 40 79022 1378.

At Vattenfall we are convinced that diversity contributes to build a more profitable and attractive company and we strive to be good role model regarding diversity. Vattenfall works actively for all employees to have the same opportunities and rights regardless of gender, ethnicity, age, transgender identity or expression, religion or other belief, disability or sexual orientation.

The security of Vattenfall and its employees is essential. For that reason, a pre-employment screening will be part of your recruitment process. The screening is based on the role you will fulfill within Vattenfall. The screening will be performed by a third party, called DISA. In addition, a certificate of good conduct (i.e. criminal record certificate) is required for certain positions.

We look forward to receiving your application!
Company Description

Vattenfall is a European energy company with approximately 20.000 employees. For more than 100 years we have electrified industries, supplied energy to people's homes and modernized our way of living through innovation and cooperation. We are looking for talented individuals who, in addition to their passion for their own role, also have strong team spirit and want to contribute to supporting a meaningful corporate mission.

Right in the heart of Vattenfall, atBusiness Area (BA) Markets, you will find an inspiring international environment, with a culture of care and personal growth, enabling you to be who you are, having fun, building strong relationships and learning every day. Find out what our colleagues think about our culture:https://youtu.be/-9qGrDUCptA

We employ around 500 professionals who are active across Europe with offices in Sweden, Germany, The Netherlands, and the United Kingdom to drive the energy transition together. Our role in Vattenfall is to maximize the value of the overall portfolio by optimizing and dispatching, hedging, and sourcing for Vattenfall's sales and generation volumes. We serve as Vattenfall's single access to energy commodity markets and trade electricity, emissions, fuels, freight, and renewable certificates.

In BA Markets the mission of theUnit OU Operations is to drive the digital transformation. OU Operations consists of diverse and highly skilled employees from more than 20 countries. We work internationally from our locations in Stockholm, Hamburg and Amsterdam.