Business Analyst

-; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading energy company in London requires a versatile individual for their digital delivery team. This role focuses on business analysis to provide high-quality solutions for energy trading and risk management. Responsibilities include liaising with stakeholders, leading workshops, and producing detailed requirements. Candidates should have a degree in economics or a related field, strong communication skills, and experience in agile methodologies. The position offers a hybrid work model with various benefits.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Generous paid parental leave policy

Excellent retirement benefits

Qualifications

• Expectation of five years' experience planning and documenting digital products.
• Experience delivering complex products with remote teams.
• Proficient in SQL and other data analysis tools.

Responsibilities

• Act as the main point of contact for product delivery.
• Lead ideation and process definition workshops.
• Produce user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Use data analysis to inform decisions.

Skills

Business analysis

Agile methodologies

Data analysis

Communication

Problem Solving

Project Management

Education

University degree in economics, finance or engineering

Job description

Job Description: Are you looking for a career in tech that truly challenges you in a learning environment? bp is currently looking for a 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 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 be joining a multi‑disciplinary team which includes 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 optimise 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.

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.
• 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, 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 London, Pune, Singapore, Houston, and Chicago.

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.
• Super 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 organisational 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 maintain 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.

Person Specification:

• Highly organized, good attention to detail and ability to work with timelines.
• Analytical mind and good numerical skills.
• Proactive and result oriented approach to work.
• Excellent communication and emotional quotient capabilities.
• Ability to build and cultivate effective stakeholder relationships.
• Full command of English language (spoken and written).

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

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, Agility core practices, API and platform design, Cloud Platforms, Collaboration, Communication, Configuration management and release, Continuous deployment and release, Creating a high performing team, Digital Project Management, Documentation and knowledge sharing, Emerging technology monitoring, Facilitation, Information Security, Mentoring, Metrics definition and instrumentation, NoSql data modelling, Problem Solving, Relational Data Modelling, Risk Management, Scripting, Secure development, Service operations and resiliency, Software Design and Development, Solution Architecture {+ 6 more}

Legal Disclaimer:

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, socioeconomic status, neurodiversity/neurocognitive functioning, 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 on 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.