IS Business Partner - Drilling & Wells

ACTIVITIES

• Participate in the definition and formulation of IS strategy and medium to long term IS plans of the client entity.
  
• Assist the client entity in the construction of their IS resource requirements forecast and IS budget and incorporate such into the IST budget for the affiliate
  
• Provide business analysis services to client entities, aimed at identifying and implementing IST solutions
  
• Lead significant business/user related projects within IST, carrying out the initial analysis & documentation of requirements, and the co-ordination of the solution development, deployment, and integration
  
• Coordinate the activities of all IST entities, to ensure, on behalf of their client business entities, the effective operational maintenance and support of existing IST systems and services they use
  
• Ensure that IST activities are performed with minimum disruption to the business entity processes and activities
  
• Assist the requesting entity in searching for and acquiring new software, while making sure that this software can be
  integrated in the COMPANY IS environment.
  
• Supervise the development of new software or software interfaces, follow-up the maintenance of existing applications
  for the client entity.
  
• Identify and define the interface between existing and/or new systems inside and outside the Client entity IS, ensuring the coherence of new components of the IS with the existing ones.
  
• Place at the disposal of the requesting entity, an information system consistent with the objectives of the E&P
  professional disciplines and the Group Information System.
  
• In conjunction with the client division, defend and ensure the application of IST policies as may be particularly relevant to the client entity
  
• Liaise with HQ IS Correspondents, ensuring that the Group’s IS strategies, plans and other relevant information are
  appropriately communicated to prepare for future IS evolutions in client entities.
  
• Assist and support the business with documents and archive management activities.
  
• Provide support to business with management of entity shared drive (access control, folder organization …)
  
• Contribute to the digitization of IT solutions for the Business entities
  
  

CONTEXT AND ENVIRONMENT

• In the rapidly changing user and operations environment of COMPANY, understand complex business processes and
  proffer valuable IS solutions to IST business clients.
  
• Complete understanding of COMPANY and the Company Group IS policies and procedures and the capacity to apply
  such policies in a challenging and difficult operations and user environment.
  
• Constant meetings with business entities to ascertain operational needs and ensure such needs are met in an efficient
  manner. A mandatory sense of commitment and dedication to duty, diplomacy and sound analytical skills.
  

H3SE

• Familiarize self with COMPANY emergency procedures and report to the Manager any incident, unsafe act or
  operation.
  
• Carry out assigned duties safely according to COMPANY HSE procedures in such a manner to minimize / eliminate
  unsafe exposure to self or fellow workers.
  
  

ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Provision of business analysis and consultancy services to client business entities, in accordance with any SLAs
  and/or KPIs Coordination of significant business related IS projects.
  
• Promotion of the respect of company standards & procedures by the user entities.
  
• Definition and respect of business IS budget, and appropriate performance reporting for consolidation into the IT
  Report
  
  

Requirements

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS / EXPERIENCE

• A B.Sc. degree in an IS/IT related subject. An M.Sc. also in a related discipline will be an added advantage
  
• A minimum of 7 years' broad IS/IT experience (ideally in both development and support roles) OR 7 years’ experience
  in Business with a flair for IS/IT
  
• Extensive knowledge and thorough understanding of the oil and gas business, operations, activities and processes
  
• Extensive knowledge of current and developing IS/IT industry solutions, and a thorough understanding of how these
  solutions could be used to meet the needs of client business entities