IS Business Partner - Drilling & Wells (PHC)

SERVICE DIMENSIONS Financial Data: Participate in defining and managing IS budget for client entities with domains covered People Data: Work with Application Development & Support team (where applicable) and provide indirect supervision and co-ordination of IST technical teams Production Data 100+ users, 110 workstations, 20+ Business Applications 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