bp
Senior Business Analyst
United Kingdom · Work style not stated · Full time
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- Employerbp
- LocationUnited Kingdom
- Work styleWork style not stated
- Employment typeFull time
- Employer posted
Entity:
Technology
Job Family Group:
IT&S Group
Job Description:
We are looking for a Senior Business Analyst to join our London team on our journey to digitise our global trading operations capability.
Trading operations is integral to the success of bp's Supply, Trading & Shipping organization. The operations team coordinates the safe, efficient, and reliable execution of the physical movements into and out of supply chain networks supporting our refineries, customer networks, and trading business. We play a vital role in moving product between suppliers, refineries, terminals, and customers across all modes of transportation including pipelines, rail, truck, intra terminal movements, barges, and vessels.
This is a unique opportunity to partner with our commodities trading business, to deliver creative technology solutions, adding commercial value as well as achieving our carbon net-zero goals.
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We have an exciting and challenging, digital vision to support business growth in Bio & Low-Carbon trading and Midstream integration, while redefining the day-to-day activities of operators through increased automation.
In This Role You Will:
Lead analysis activities for an Agile, business facing development team to develop, integrate and enhance applications, products, and services for the global operations team.
Partner with business leaders, product owners and development teams to identify, prioritise and implement effective and efficient technology solutions, delivering business value.
Provide vision and leadership, resolve conflicts, and be a catalyst for creative, high-quality delivery within a collaborative, safe and high-performing team environment.
Enjoy working in a varied and dynamic, bespoke technical landscape comprising of legacy monoliths to microservices.
Understand and appreciate, Agile frameworks, metrics-based development, TDD, and BDD.
Be open to change and a strong advocate for new technology and methods.
Develop and implement strategies for creating and measuring impact, ensuring that solutions deliver demonstrable business value.
Utilize superb communication and influencing skills to present complex information clearly, gain consensus, and manage expectations.
Identify and champion the use of AI tools, techniques and approaches.
Essential Experience & Job Requirements:
Proven experience as a Business Analyst in a large, complex organization, preferably within the energy sector, commodities trading, or a related industry.
Strong business analysis and functional design skills.
Experience working on a team that promotes positive collaboration to achieve shared goals.
Experience with Agile delivery.
Experience as part of a business- facing, technology team in a high- pressure, dynamic industry, or business area.
Experience working with offshore vendors and consultancies.
Self-motivated and self-starter – able to work with minimal direction and pick up new or unfamiliar concepts quickly.
Good communicator, able to deliver a message effectively and concisely at all levels including senior management.
Strong presentation and communication skills.
Desirable Criteria & Qualifications:
Business knowledge of commodity (ideally oil) or financial trading.
Strong presentation, communication, and numerical skills.
Experience working in commodity or financial markets front-office, middle-office or operations technology teams.
Experience working in global, geographically dispersed teams.
Experience working in brownfield sites, where the work requires creating new solutions within an existing array of highly integrated systems.
Why Join Us?
At BP, we support our people to grow in a diverse and exciting environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity.
There are many aspects of our employees’ lives that are significant, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life. These benefits can include flexible working options, a generous paid parental leave policy, excellent retirement benefits, among others.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
Reinvent your career as you help our business meet the challenges of the future.
Apply now!
Travel Requirement
Up to 10% travel should be expected with this role
Relocation Assistance:
This role is not eligible for relocation
Remote Type:
This position is not available for remote working
Skills:
Commercial Acumen, Communication, Data Analysis, Data cleansing and transformation, Data domain knowledge, Data Integration, Data Management, Data Manipulation, Data Sourcing, Data strategy and governance, Data Structures and Algorithms (Inactive), Data visualization and interpretation, Digital Security, Extract, transform and load, Group Problem Solving
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