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Entity: Technology
Job Family Group: IT&S Group
Job Description:
About the Role:
As the biofuels market grows rapidly across the globe, BP's Supply, Trading & Shipping organization has developed a technology modernization programme to support its growth strategy in bioliquids and biogas. The Bio Technology team has a long roadmap to develop transformational solutions which includes the creation of a strategic platform for certificate management. This team supports the sustainability operations team who sits in the day-to-day execution layer of sustainability compliance and tracking for our physical trading business. They ensure that every bio trade we transact is fully traceable, properly certified, regulator-compliant, and reconciled against trading positions.
This is a unique opportunity as a Senior Business Analyst to partner with our sustainability team to deliver creative technology solutions that underpin license to operate for our trading business and allow us to achieve our carbon net-zero goals.
We have an exciting and challenging, digital vision to support business growth while redefining the day-to-day activities of operators through increased automation.
What You Will Deliver:
- 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 takeaways 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.
- Agile delivery: You will partner with a mature and cross-functional Agile project team which includes other business analysts, software engineers, and UI/UX designers to develop solutions that meet 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.
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Essential Experience and 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, both oral and written.
The competencies for a business analyst at this level include a skillful understanding of the core principles and practices of business analysis. At this grade, a business analyst is expected to have comprehensive theoretical, technical, and sometimes specialized knowledge that they use to solve difficult problems and complete complex tasks independently. Specifically, they should be proficient in areas such as requirements definition, stakeholder management, service delivery, testing, business process change, and data analysis. This level of competency allows them to lead initiatives and see them through to the end, demonstrating a high level of skill and expertise in their domain.
Desirable criteria & qualifications:
- Business knowledge of commodity (ideally oil) or financial trading.
- Business knowledge of global sustainability regulations, certification schemes, and market compliance programs, such as RED III and RFS.
- 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.
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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.
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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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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