JOB SUMMARY:

Are you looking for a career in tech that truly challenges in a learning environment? bp is currently looking for versatile individual to be part of our digital delivery team. You will be a key member of a multi-functional team involved in all phases of our product lifecycle and responsible for requirements, analysis, and delivery of our products.
In this role you will have the opportunity to enhance your analytical and product management skills working within the market risk technology team in Pune.
Day to day you’ll be faced with many challenges - the safety of our people and our customers is our highest priority. The role will advocate and lead in this and promote a culture of security and safety in everything that we do. You’ll be joining a multi-disciplinary team which include Software Engineers, Business Analysts, Testers, SecOps, and Product owners to deliver value through the application of specialist skills. You will work with vendors and partners providing market solutions to optimize the usage and value we add.
At bp, we support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and ambitious environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity. We are committed to encouraging an inclusive environment in which everyone is respected and treated fairly. There are many aspects of our employees’ lives that are meaningful, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life.

PRIMARY SKILLS:

• Expectation of five years’ experience planning, implementing, maintaining, and documenting digital products and solutions.
• Experience delivering complex products working with geographically remote business partners and teams.
• Superb communication skills will be massively important for the role for both stakeholder and delivery of the global market risk team. This includes technical content in business context.
• Ability to engage and influence and able to decompose technical considerations that everyone can understand is key.
• Experienced agile practitioner who can equally work as part of the squad, or lead on a short-term sprint basis.
• Has a curious, exploratory and continuous learning hindsight for themselves and for the people around them.
• Thinks holistically about product capability from the delivery and operations.
• Excellent organizational skills required to adapt to a constantly evolving environment.
• Highly responsible, self-motivated, and able to thrive in a fast paced, high growth environment which exhibits ownership of the outcomes of work.
• Ability to build, cultivate, and manage relationships with stakeholders across all levels.

EXPERIENCE:

• University degree in economics, finance or engineering subject area.
• Proven relevant experience as a business analyst.
• Relevant experience in a market risk role from trading companies or banks is preferred.
• Knowledge of one or more of ETRM systems would be an advantage.

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

LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT THE ROLE

A Business Analyst at bp provides enduring deep domain expertise to bridge the gap between business goals and technology solutions. Using techniques such as data analysis, customer and partner interviews, and workshops and training, they gather, refine, and define business requirements while collaborating with teams to deliver solutions that meet both user and business needs. The role also involves monitoring progress towards business goals while driving efficiency and effectiveness. The role’s focus on ongoing relationship management ensures alignment across commercial and technology partners.

JOB PURPOSE AND PRIMARY OBJECTIVES:

You will apply your expertise in business analysis to deliver high-quality, value-adding solutions for our leading energy trading and risk management business. Your strong functional understanding and familiarity with agile methodologies, data analysis, business process mapping, and product will be critical.
Being part of a global multi-functional team, you will play a key role in the analysis and refinement of both functional and non-functional requirements from stakeholders throughout the commodity trading lifecycle, applying structured business analysis tools, techniques, and methodologies.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Act as the main point of contact for your area of product delivery, ensuring all activity is aligned with shared strategic direction.
• Lead and facilitate ideation and process definition workshops with users at all levels based in dispersed geographical locations.
• Own the execution of key controls for the business area and collaborate with other functions to ensure continuous improvement of controls / processes.
• Define the systems and data requirements and validate the systems design and processes from functional and technical aspects.
• Produce high quality analysis and writing user stories and acceptance criteria to be used by developers, testers, and end-users alike.
• Understand system constraints and opportunities to inform design.
• Handle cross-team consensus and acceptance of requirements, ensuring relevant sign offs are acquired.
• Use data analysis techniques including SQL to make informed decisions and validate solutions backed with qualitative and quantitative data.
• Build positive relationships with users and commercial partners.
• Work closely with teams in Pune, London, Singapore, Houston, and Chicago.