Senior Business Analyst

Our purpose is to deliver energy to the world, today and tomorrow. For over 100 years, bp has focused on discovering, developing, and producing oil and gas in the nations where we operate. We are one of the few companies globally that can provide governments and customers with an integrated energy offering. Delivering our strategy sustainably is fundamental to achieving our ambition to be a net zero company by 2050 or sooner!

You will partner closely with front‑office Oil Traders to shape and deliver impactful technology solutions. Acting as the bridge between business and technology, you'll translate complex trading requirements into clear, actionable outcomes – working collaboratively with engineering teams to deliver high‑quality features at pace without compromising on rigour.

You’ll join Gordon, a well‑established and highly regarded technology platform that powers arbitrage and blending insights for a global community of traders and blenders. The work is fast‑paced and the user base is demanding, but it offers exceptional variety and the opportunity to make a tangible impact on commercial decision‑making.

• User research:
  Engage with users, observe and analyze their workflows, and extract relevant insights about how they perform a process and interact with a product or system. This involves uncovering pain points, process mapping, pattern recognition, and connecting learnings to potential solutions.
• Requirements definition:
  Take responsibility for eliciting requirements through various techniques such as interviews, workshops, and document analysis. Lead workshops to assemble and refine requirements, consider trade‑offs, and ensure a clear understanding of system constraints. Additionally, collaborate with design teams to develop solutions that meet both business needs.
• Relationship management:
  Build strong relationships with commercial and technology partners at all levels within a distributed team, ensuring effective communication, alignment, and collaboration.
• Business process change:
  Lead business process workshops to analyze and map business processes, find opportunities for process improvements, and implement changes to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.
• Data analysis:
  Analyze and model data requirements, understand data models and database design to support sophisticated datasets, and provide insights and recommendations based on data analysis to support decision‑making.
• Service delivery:
  Diagnose issues and work closely with other support teams across functions to understand defects, drive minor improvements, and document change requests clearly and concisely to bring quick resolution.

• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills.
• Superb oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to build positive relationships with a variety of domain experts.
• Technical proficiency in areas such as data analysis and modeling, service design, and application design.
• Commodity (ideally Oil) Trading domain knowledge, especially in the Front Office.

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Demonstrable experience as a Business Analyst or in a similar role.
• Familiarity with business analysis tools (e.g., ADO, Power BI, Visio).

Negligible travel is expected with this role.

This role is not eligible for relocation.

This position is a hybrid of office/remote working.

• Commercial Acumen
• Communication
• Data Analysis
• Data cleansing and transformation
• Data domain knowledge
• Data Integration
• Data Managementl>
• Data Manipulation
• Data Sourcing
• Data strategy and governance
• Data visualization and interpretation
• Digital Security
• Extract, transform and load
• Group Problem Solving

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of protected characteristics like race, religion, color, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, veteran status or disability status. Individuals with an accessibility need may request an adjustment/accommodation related to bp's recruiting process (e.g., accessing the job application, completing required assessments, participating in telephone screenings or interviews, etc.). If you would like to request an adjustment/accommodation related to the recruitment process, please contact us.

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