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!

About the role:

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.

The team is dynamic, collaborative, and consistently high-performing, with a strong track record of delivery. While expectations are high, the culture balances ambition with camaraderie creating an environment where people enjoy what they do, support one another, and celebrate success together. This is reflected in the team's strong retention, with many members choosing to stay and grow within Gordon over the long term clear evidence of the rewarding and engaging nature of the work.

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 learnings to potential solutions.
• Requirements definition: Take responsibility for eliciting requirements through various techniques such as interviews, workshops, and document analysis. They lead workshops to assemble and refine requirements, consider tradeoffs, and ensure a clear understanding of system constraints. Additionally, they 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 in order to bring quick resolution.

What you need to be successful:

• 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.

The competencies for a business analyst at this level include a skilful 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.

Preferred experience:

• 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).

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 meaningful, 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 essential 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: Negligible travel should be expected with this role.

Relocation Assistance: This role is not eligible for relocation.

Remote Type: This position is a hybrid of office/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.