Business Analyst

Job description

Segment

Integrated Supply & Trading
Role synopsis

The IST IT&S Operations Work Bench (OWB) Team is responsible for the delivery of IT solutions in the Oil Physical Opeations domain. The OWB team is spread across IST's three trading locations to support our global user community and is made up of a group of diverse and multi-skilled business analysts, developers, testers and operational analysts all working together in a DevOps model.

This role will be accountable for Operations Technology business analysis activities and deliverables. He/she will work in an iterative Scrum/Agile environment, and will be expected to engage in activities such as sprint planning, daily scrums, reviews and retrospectives. He/she will lead and support other analyst in requirements elicitation, managing stakeholder relationships, business process change, testing, project delivery and service delivery.

The role is also part of the Oil Business Analysis Function, a global group across the IST IT&S Global Oil Domain. The Function serves as one team of business analysts that provide business analysis expertise to meet the demand across all investment and operational activity for the Global Oil Domain. As a part of the BA function there may be future opportunities to work on other delivery streams in the Trading Front Office and Middleoffice domain.
Req ID

76637BR
Location

United Kingdom - South East - London
Is this a part time position?

No
Relocation available

No
Travel required

Negligible travel
Key accountabilities

Requirements Engineering

·  Elicits requirements at all stakeholder levels.
·  Leads requirements workshops.
·  Manages conflict resolution and achieves global consensus.
·  Refines requirements to eliminate ambiguity, conflict and duplication.
·  Understands system constraints and opportunities to inform design.
·  Works with development, design and architecture on design options and potential systems and process solutions.
Relationship and Stakeholder Management

·  Builds strong business intimacy with commercial partners at all levels.
·  Manages relationships in a global team with a global user community.
Service Delivery

·  Provides issue diagnosis and resolution.
·  Works closely and shares knowledge with other support teams across other functional areas .
·  Analyses and clearly documents defects, minor enhancements and change requests.
Project Delivery

·  Supports the full project lifecycle including global delivery and Early Life Support.
·  Provides quality assurance on analysis deliverables through peer review.
Testing

·  Writes test scenarios for both automated and manual testing.
·  Collaborates with test teams.
·  Performs regression testing.
·  Leads User Acceptance Testing.
Business Process Change

·  Leads business process workshops.
·  Analyses and maps business processes.
·  Identifies opportunities for process improvements.
Data

·  Analyses data flows and models data requirements.
·  Understanding of data models and database design.
·  Analyse and supports complex spreadsheets.
Essential Education

N/A
Desirable criteria and qualifications

·  Practical experience of working in an interactive/ agile development environment (including planning, daily scrums, reviews and retrospectives)
·  Scrum Master Certification
·  Professional accreditation, e.g. Foundation in Business Analysis or ISEB Diploma in Business Analysis.
About BP

Our business is the exploration, production, refining, trading and distribution of energy. This is what we do, and we do it on a truly global scale. BP operates with business activities and customers in more than 80 countries across six continents. Every day, we serve millions of customers around the world. We are continually looking for talented, committed and ambitious people to help us shape the face of energy for the future.

Integrated Supply & Trading (IST) is BP's face to the traded markets for BP in oil, gas, power, chemicals and finance. IST's role is to enhance Group value through distinctive supply, commodity trading, risk management and information technology skills underpinned by a world class finance, control and compliance infrastructure. IST has a dynamic and highly skilled workforce, which creates value by combining analysis and commercial innovation with the material asset base of BP.

IST fosters a diverse and inclusive workplace for all employees. We are proud of our stance on fairness, equal opportunity and meritocracy, which focuses on all of our employees reaching their full potential.

IST Information Technology & Services (IT&S) is the progressive global IT arm of BP. The expertise IT&S provides is central to the operation and development of Integrated Supply & Trading (IST) - one of the world's largest energy trading businesses. Delivering innovative solutions for supply and commodity trading activity across IST's Global Gas and Oil Strategic Performance Units is at the heart of what IT&S does.

Our people and culture are diverse, reflecting the truly global nature of our business - in excess of 500 employees provide a presence in over 50 countries, with key hubs in London, Chicago, Houston, Calgary and Singapore. We support our people by offering an exciting variety of professions and provide excellent training opportunities to help them progress their careers.
Application close date

15-Mar-2017
Sub-category

Business Analysis & Consulting
Job category

Information Technology & Services
Countries (State/Region)

United Kingdom - South East

Desired profile

Essential experience and job requirements

Soft Skills

·  Be highly analytical – able to perform solve, able to absorb large amounts of detail and able to see the big picture. Be able to manage conflicting ideas and demands to provide clarity.
·  Be a good communicator – able to deliver a message effectively and concisely at all levels, on both a technical and a business level. Have excellent written and verbal communication skills.
·  Be self-motivated and self-starting – able to work with little supervision and able to pick up new or unfamiliar concepts quickly. Be confident and demonstrate good judgment.
·  Build team capability – build knowledge transfer artefacts and perform knowledge transfer. Be an excellent team player, with the ability to influence others to achieve success.
Domain Knowledge:

·  Excellent knowledge of the physical deal life cycle across Front, Middle and Back Office in oil or other commodities.
·  Deep understanding and proven experience of working on systems functionality core to oil trading or other physical commodities.
Other Requirements (eg Travel, Location)

Negligible Travel