Senior Business Analyst

About the role

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. As a business analyst, you will be a key member of a multi‑functional team involved in all phases of our product release lifecycle that adopts and promotes the DevOps & SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) methodologies, 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 digital delivery team in London. 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 work as part of evolving multi‑disciplinary teams 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 which can be delivered through our products.

Job Purpose and primary objectives

As a Senior Business Analyst, you will apply your expertise in analysis and product management to deliver high‑quality, value‑driven solutions for our leading energy trading and risk management business. Your strong functional understanding of data analysis, trading, and financial risk management will be essential. Being part of a global cross‑functional team of analysts, developers and testers, you will play a key role in the analysis and refinement of both functional and non‑functional requirements from partners throughout the commodity trading lifecycle, using structured business analysis tools, techniques, and methodologies. Your familiarity with Agile methodologies and practical application will be crucial.

Key responsibilities

• Act as the main point of contact for your area of delivery within the market risk products landscape, 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.
• Advocate responsible AI use within the team and drive adoption.
• Lead 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 and testers.
• Understand system constraints and opportunities to inform design.
• Manage cross-team consensus and acceptance of requirements, ensuring meaningful sign‑offs.
• Use data analysis techniques including SQL to make informed decisions and validate solutions backed with qualitative and quantitative data.
• Build strong relationships with users and commercial partners.
• Work closely with teams in UK, US, India, and Hungary.

Key Skills/Knowledge

Primary Skills Expectation of proven experience designing, planning, implementing, maintaining, and documenting digital products and market risk solutions within commodity trading environment or other financial intuitions. Experience delivering complex products working with geographically remote business partners and teams. Strong communication skills will be massively important for the role for both partner 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. Experience using AI tools to support ideation, backlog creation, and overall product development. 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 mindsight 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 changing environment. Highly responsible, self‑motivated, and able to thrive in an energetic, fast paced, high growth environment which exhibits ownership of the outcomes of work. Ability to build, nurture, and maintain relationships with partners across all levels.

Analysis and Design

Facilitate ideation and process definition workshops with business partners at all levels based in different locations. Elicit requirements from business partners at all levels including leading requirements and design workshops. Ensure these requirements eliminate ambiguity, conflict and duplication. Define the systems and data requirements and validate the systems design and processes from functional and technical aspects. Produce high quality analysis, including collecting precise and accurate user stories and acceptance criteria to be used by developers and test automation frameworks. Understand system constraints and opportunities to inform design. Use tools to manage requirements and traceability. Manage cross‑team consensus and acceptance of requirements, ensuring meaningful sign offs. Use data analysis techniques including SQL to make informed decisions and validate solutions backed with qualitative and quantitative data.

What do we expect the person to be like?

• Self‑starter, proactive and result oriented approach to work.
• Highly organized, excellent attention to detail and ability to work with tight deadlines.
• Analytical and good numerical skills.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to build and nurture effective relationships.

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.

Travel Requirement

No travel is 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

• Agility core practices
• AI Systems
• Analytical Thinking
• Business Analysis
• Business Requirements Analysis
• Collaboration
• Communication
• Continuous Improvement
• Curiosity
• Customer Experience Metrics
• Data Analysis
• Design Thinking
• Digital Delivery
• Digital Project Management
• Facilitation
• Market Risk Management
• Problem Solving
• Product Management
• Requirements definition and management
• Stakeholder Management

Legal Disclaimer

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. If you are selected for a position and depending upon your role, your employment may be contingent upon adherence to local policy. This may include pre‑placement drug screening, medical review of physical fitness for the role, and background checks.