About the role
Partner closely with front‑office Oil Traders to shape and deliver impactful technology solutions. Act as the bridge between business and technology, translating complex trading requirements into clear, actionable outcomes and collaborating with engineering teams to deliver high‑quality features at pace without compromising rigor.
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 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. 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.
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.
Benefits
We offer flexible working options, a generous paid parental leave policy, excellent retirement benefits, and more to enable your work to fit with your life.
Job Details
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 visualization and interpretation, Digital Security, Extract, transform and load, Group Problem Solving.
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 are selected for a position, your employment may be contingent upon adherence to local policy, which may include pre‑placement drug screening, medical review of physical fitness for the role, and background checks.
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