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At ExxonMobil, our vision is to lead in energy innovations that advance modern living while reducing emissions. As one of the world’s largest publicly traded energy and chemical companies, we are powered by a unique and diverse workforce fueled by the pride in what we do and what we stand for.
The success of our Upstream, Product Solutions and Low Carbon Solutions businesses is the result of the talent, curiosity and drive of our people. They bring solutions every day to optimize our strategy in energy, chemicals, lubricants and lower-emissions technologies.
We invite you to bring your ideas to ExxonMobil to help create sustainable solutions that improve quality of life and meet society’s evolving needs. Learn more about our What and our Why and how we can work together.
What you will do
- Act as the primary functional analyst for the Endur (ION Openlink) ETRM platform supporting trading, risk, operations, and back-office teams
- Gather, analyze, and document business requirements from front, middle, and back-office stakeholders
- Translate business requirements into functional specifications, system configurations, and solution designs
- Configure and support Endur modules including deal capture, trade modeling, scheduling, logistics, risk, P&L reporting, settlements, invoicing, and accounting
- Support Endur enhancements, upgrades, implementations, workflows, and system integrations
- Provide functional expertise across the end-to-end commodity trade lifecycle, from deal capture through settlement and reporting
- Lead and support SIT/UAT testing, test case design, defect management, and release activities
- Provide production support, issue troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and user assistance
- Ensure data integrity across Endur and integrated systems
- Support reporting solutions including risk, P&L, operational, and management reporting
- Identify opportunities for process optimization and continuous improvement
- Collaborate with business users, developers, risk teams, operations teams, and external vendors to deliver scalable ETRM solutions
What role you will play on our team
Experienced Endur Functional Analyst responsible for delivering and supporting ETRM solutions that enable commodity trading, risk management, and back-office operations.
About you
Skills and Qualifications
- Hands-on experience with ION Openlink Endur configuration, workflows, and functional support
- Strong understanding of Energy Trading and Risk Management (ETRM) processes and systems
- Knowledge of physical and financial commodity trading lifecycle processes
- Experience with trade capture, valuation, risk exposure, settlements, and P&L reporting
- Strong business analysis skills including requirements gathering, process mapping, and solution design
- SQL and data analysis capabilities
- Understanding of Endur architecture, reference data, workflows, interfaces, and integrations
- Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving skills
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
- Ability to work effectively in fast-paced and globally distributed trading environments
Preferred Qualifications / Experience
- Experience supporting commodities such as crude oil, refined products, feedstocks, and freight
- Experience with Endur implementations, upgrades, and transformation projects
- Knowledge of market data management and pricing curves
- Familiarity with integrations involving ERP, risk, and market data platforms
- Experience supporting front office, middle office, and back-office business functions
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field
- 3+ years of relevant Endur/ETRM experience
Your benefits
An ExxonMobil career is one designed to last. Our commitment to you runs deep: our employees grow personally and professionally, with benefits built on our core categories of health, security, finance, and life.
We offer you:
- Pension Plan: Enrollment is automatic and at no cost to you. The basic benefit is a monthly annuity to be paid to you in retirement for the rest of your life.
- Savings Plan: You can contribute between 6% and 20% of your pay and are encouraged to enroll right away. If you contribute at least 6% to your savings plan, the Company will contribute a 7% match.
- Workplace Flexibility: We have several programs such as “Flex your Day”, providing ad-hoc flexibility around when and where you work, as well as longer-term programs such as leaves of absence and part-time work.
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans.
- Culture of Health: Programs and resources to support your wellbeing.
- Employee Health Advisory Program: Provides confidential professional counseling for you and your family, including tools and resources promoting mental health and resiliency at no additional cost to you.
- Disability Plan: Income replacement for when you cannot work due to illness or injury occurring on or off the job. Enrollment is automatic and at no cost to you.
More information on our Company’s benefits can be found at www.exxonmobilfamily.com.
Please note benefits may be changed from time to time without notice, subject to applicable law.
Stay connected with us
Learn more at our website
Follow us on LinkedIN and Instagram
Like us on Facebook
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EEO Statement
ExxonMobil is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship status, protected veteran status, genetic information, or physical or mental disability.
Job Group Capability
Job Group
Information Technology
Job Role Description
The Trading IT Specialist - Advanced is responsible for delivering system enhancements and resolving moderately complex issues independently. This role contributes to medium-scale projects, ensures solution quality through testing and traceability, and considers non-functional requirements such as performance and security. It engages with business stakeholders to recommend improvements, supports the development of junior team members, and helps maintain system integrity across business processes.
Trading IT includes business capabilities such as Trading Market Assessment, Trading Execution, Trading Risk Management, and Trade Performance Monitoring.
Job Role Responsibilities
- Independently investigates and resolves moderately complex system issues
- Delivers system enhancements and contributes to medium-scale projects, ensuring data integrity and dependency management
- Ensures traceability of changes and considers non-functional requirements (e.g. performance, security) when configuring solutions
- Executes end-to-end testing for assigned processes and develops test scripts for known scenarios
- Participates in solution evaluation and recommends improvements aligned with business needs
- Demonstrates comprehensive understanding of business processes and related system functionality, data structures, and IT components. Develops basic understanding of adjacent capabilities, and stays current on industry trends
- Builds and maintains relationships with business, IT stakeholders, and key vendors to influence solutions
- Collaborates with IT teams and service providers to maintain system integrity and integration
- Supports the development of junior team members through knowledge sharing and mentoring
Functional Skills
Nothing herein is intended to override the corporate separateness of local entities. Working relationships discussed herein do not necessarily represent a reporting connection, but may reflect a functional guidance, stewardship, or service relationship.
Exxon Mobil Corporation has numerous affiliates, many with names that include ExxonMobil, Exxon, Esso and Mobil. For convenience and simplicity, those terms and terms like corporation, company, our, we and its are sometimes used as abbreviated references to specific affiliates or affiliate groups. Abbreviated references describing global or regional operational organizations and global or regional business lines are also sometimes used for convenience and simplicity. Similarly, ExxonMobil has business relationships with thousands of customers, suppliers, governments, and others. For convenience and simplicity, words like venture, joint venture, partnership, co-venturer, and partner are used to indicate business relationships involving common activities and interests, and those words may not indicate precise legal relationships.
Job ID: 107518
About us
At ExxonMobil, our vision is to lead in energy innovations that advance modern living while reducing emissions. As one of the world’s largest publicly traded energy and chemical companies, we are powered by a unique and diverse workforce fueled by the pride in what we do and what we stand for.
The success of our Upstream, Product Solutions and Low Carbon Solutions businesses is the result of the talent, curiosity and drive of our people. They bring solutions every day to optimize our strategy in energy, chemicals, lubricants and lower-emissions technologies.
We invite you to bring your ideas to ExxonMobil to help create sustainable solutions that improve quality of life and meet society’s evolving needs. Learn more about our What and our Why and how we can work together.
What you will do
- Act as the primary functional analyst for the Endur (ION Openlink) ETRM platform supporting trading, risk, operations, and back-office teams
- Gather, analyze, and document business requirements from front, middle, and back-office stakeholders
- Translate business requirements into functional specifications, system configurations, and solution designs
- Configure and support Endur modules including deal capture, trade modeling, scheduling, logistics, risk, P&L reporting, settlements, invoicing, and accounting
- Support Endur enhancements, upgrades, implementations, workflows, and system integrations
- Provide functional expertise across the end-to-end commodity trade lifecycle, from deal capture through settlement and reporting
- Lead and support SIT/UAT testing, test case design, defect management, and release activities
- Provide production support, issue troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and user assistance
- Ensure data integrity across Endur and integrated systems
- Support reporting solutions including risk, P&L, operational, and management reporting
- Identify opportunities for process optimization and continuous improvement
- Collaborate with business users, developers, risk teams, operations teams, and external vendors to deliver scalable ETRM solutions
What role you will play on our team
Experienced Endur Functional Analyst responsible for delivering and supporting ETRM solutions that enable commodity trading, risk management, and back-office operations.
About you
Skills and Qualifications
- Hands-on experience with ION Openlink Endur configuration, workflows, and functional support
- Strong understanding of Energy Trading and Risk Management (ETRM) processes and systems
- Knowledge of physical and financial commodity trading lifecycle processes
- Experience with trade capture, valuation, risk exposure, settlements, and P&L reporting
- Strong business analysis skills including requirements gathering, process mapping, and solution design
- SQL and data analysis capabilities
- Understanding of Endur architecture, reference data, workflows, interfaces, and integrations
- Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving skills
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
- Ability to work effectively in fast-paced and globally distributed trading environments
Preferred Qualifications / Experience
- Experience supporting commodities such as crude oil, refined products, feedstocks, and freight
- Experience with Endur implementations, upgrades, and transformation projects
- Knowledge of market data management and pricing curves
- Familiarity with integrations involving ERP, risk, and market data platforms
- Experience supporting front office, middle office, and back-office business functions
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field
- 3+ years of relevant Endur/ETRM experience
Your benefits
An ExxonMobil career is one designed to last. Our commitment to you runs deep: our employees grow personally and professionally, with benefits built on our core categories of health, security, finance, and life.
We offer you:
- Pension Plan: Enrollment is automatic and at no cost to you. The basic benefit is a monthly annuity to be paid to you in retirement for the rest of your life.
- Savings Plan: You can contribute between 6% and 20% of your pay and are encouraged to enroll right away. If you contribute at least 6% to your savings plan, the Company will contribute a 7% match.
- Workplace Flexibility: We have several programs such as “Flex your Day”, providing ad-hoc flexibility around when and where you work, as well as longer-term programs such as leaves of absence and part-time work.
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans.
- Culture of Health: Programs and resources to support your wellbeing.
- Employee Health Advisory Program: Provides confidential professional counseling for you and your family, including tools and resources promoting mental health and resiliency at no additional cost to you.
- Disability Plan: Income replacement for when you cannot work due to illness or injury occurring on or off the job. Enrollment is automatic and at no cost to you.
More information on our Company’s benefits can be found at www.exxonmobilfamily.com.
Please note benefits may be changed from time to time without notice, subject to applicable law.
Stay connected with us
Learn more at our website
Follow us on LinkedIN and Instagram
Like us on Facebook
Subscribe our channel at YouTube
EEO Statement
ExxonMobil is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship status, protected veteran status, genetic information, or physical or mental disability.
Job Group Capability
Job Group
Information Technology
Job Role Description
The Trading IT Specialist - Advanced is responsible for delivering system enhancements and resolving moderately complex issues independently. This role contributes to medium-scale projects, ensures solution quality through testing and traceability, and considers non-functional requirements such as performance and security. It engages with business stakeholders to recommend improvements, supports the development of junior team members, and helps maintain system integrity across business processes.
Trading IT includes business capabilities such as Trading Market Assessment, Trading Execution, Trading Risk Management, and Trade Performance Monitoring.
Job Role Responsibilities
- Independently investigates and resolves moderately complex system issues
- Delivers system enhancements and contributes to medium-scale projects, ensuring data integrity and dependency management
- Ensures traceability of changes and considers non-functional requirements (e.g. performance, security) when configuring solutions
- Executes end-to-end testing for assigned processes and develops test scripts for known scenarios
- Participates in solution evaluation and recommends improvements aligned with business needs
- Demonstrates comprehensive understanding of business processes and related system functionality, data structures, and IT components. Develops basic understanding of adjacent capabilities, and stays current on industry trends
- Builds and maintains relationships with business, IT stakeholders, and key vendors to influence solutions
- Collaborates with IT teams and service providers to maintain system integrity and integration
- Supports the development of junior team members through knowledge sharing and mentoring
Functional Skills
Nothing herein is intended to override the corporate separateness of local entities. Working relationships discussed herein do not necessarily represent a reporting connection, but may reflect a functional guidance, stewardship, or service relationship.
Exxon Mobil Corporation has numerous affiliates, many with names that include ExxonMobil, Exxon, Esso and Mobil. For convenience and simplicity, those terms and terms like corporation, company, our, we and its are sometimes used as abbreviated references to specific affiliates or affiliate groups. Abbreviated references describing global or regional operational organizations and global or regional business lines are also sometimes used for convenience and simplicity. Similarly, ExxonMobil has business relationships with thousands of customers, suppliers, governments, and others. For convenience and simplicity, words like venture, joint venture, partnership, co-venturer, and partner are used to indicate business relationships involving common activities and interests, and those words may not indicate precise legal relationships.
Job ID: 107518
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding OPT Sponsorship as a Functional Consultant
Target implementation-focused employers
Consulting firms and enterprise software vendors like SAP, Oracle, and Workday partners actively sponsor visas. These organizations hire Functional Consultants on project cycles, making H-1B visa sponsorship a routine part of their hiring process for international candidates.
Frame your degree as directly relevant
Functional Consultant roles require a specific degree field, not just any bachelor's. Emphasize how your information systems, business, or engineering degree maps directly to the ERP or platform specialization the employer needs. This strengthens your specialty occupation case.
Get your STEM extension paperwork ready early
If your degree qualifies for the 24-month STEM OPT extension, file your I-983 training plan with your employer and DSO well before your 12-month OPT expires. Starting this three to four months early prevents gaps in work authorization.
Specialize in one ERP platform before applying
Employers prioritize candidates with demonstrated expertise in SAP, Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics, or Oracle. Earning a platform certification before your job search significantly improves your chances of securing a role that leads to H-1B sponsorship.
Ask about sponsorship history, not just intent
During interviews, ask how many H-1B petitions the company filed in the past two years. Past sponsorship behavior is a stronger signal than a general statement that they are open to sponsoring, which can mean very different things at different firms.
Apply to mid-size consulting firms, not only large ones
Mid-size implementation partners often have less H-1B competition than the largest firms. They frequently need Functional Consultants with niche platform skills and are more willing to sponsor candidates who bring specialized expertise they cannot easily find domestically.
Functional Consultant OPT: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Functional Consultant role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
Yes, in most cases. USCIS evaluates whether the position requires a bachelor's degree or higher in a specific field. Functional Consultant roles tied to ERP platforms, enterprise software, or business process management typically meet that standard when the job description requires a degree in information systems, business, computer science, or a related discipline. Vague job descriptions that accept any degree in any field can create problems, so the employer's LCA and job posting language matters.
Can I work as a Functional Consultant on OPT while waiting for H-1B approval?
Yes, as long as your OPT authorization is valid and your employment is directly related to your degree field. If your employer files an H-1B petition before your OPT expires and you have cap-gap protection, you can continue working through September 30 of the fiscal year. STEM OPT extension applicants with a timely filed I-765 also receive a 180-day automatic extension of work authorization while the application is pending.
Where can I find Functional Consultant jobs that sponsor OPT and H-1B visas?
Migrate Mate is built specifically for F-1 OPT and international students looking for roles at employers willing to sponsor visas. Rather than filtering through thousands of postings with no sponsorship information, Migrate Mate surfaces Functional Consultant roles at companies with demonstrated H-1B sponsorship history, saving you significant time during a period when your work authorization timeline is tight.
Does my STEM degree qualify me for the 24-month OPT extension in a Functional Consultant role?
It depends on your degree, not your job title. If your degree is in a STEM-designated field such as information systems, computer science, engineering, or applied mathematics, and your Functional Consultant role is directly related to that field of study, you are eligible to apply for the 24-month STEM OPT extension. Your employer must also be enrolled in E-Verify and willing to complete the I-983 training plan. Confirm your degree's CIP code with your DSO before applying.
What happens to my OPT if my Functional Consultant contract ends between projects?
OPT allows up to 90 days of unemployment, cumulative across your entire OPT period. STEM OPT reduces that to 150 days total but requires you to be employed for the training plan to remain valid. If your consulting project ends and you are between engagements, that gap counts toward your unemployment limit. Staying on a consulting firm's payroll rather than working as an independent contractor between projects protects your status and keeps your I-983 compliant.