Trader Workbench Business Analyst

Job description

Segment

Integrated Supply & Trading
Role synopsis

The Trader Workbench (TWB) Programme is about transforming the trader's experience of interacting with IT systems with an aim of optimizing revenue-generating activities and growing their efficiency.

The workbench is a role-based framework whose benefits increase with usage: as the number of applications within the framework grows, the benefit grows too due to communication between apps. This investment in technology and Oil's front office is a multi-year, cumulative approach that builds on top of prior successes. An iterative software development approach is well suited for IST's trading community, by delivering incremental benefits rather than multi-year projects.

We are a team of diverse and multi-skilled business analysts, developers and testers all working together in a DevOps model, supporting a global user community .

You will work in an Agile/Scrum development environment, and will be expected to contribute to, and in some cases run, activities such as sprint planning, daily scrums, reviews and retrospectives. You will elicit requirements, handle user relationships, identify process change and assist with testing, project delivery and service delivery.

You will collaborate with our partners in the Trading community to analyse and prioritise the product backlog, ensuring value is delivered to them. Since we perform Behaviour Driven Development and you will produce detailed, testable scenarios, validating these with product owners and represent them in subsequent sprint meetings described above.

You will serve as a trusted advisor across Global Oil, known for your deep commercial understanding of physical and derivatives trading and grow to be an authority in relevant functional domains.

You will also join the Oil Business Analysis Function. We act as one team providing business analysis expertise to meet demand across all investment and operational activity for Global Oil.

Req ID

76215BR
Location

Singapore - Flexible - Singapore
Is this a part time position?

No
Relocation available

No
Travel required

Negligible travel
Key accountabilities

Requirements Engineering
·  Elicits requirements at all levels in the organisation through multiple techniques
·  Refines requirements to eliminate ambiguity, conflict and duplication
·  Models requirements using a structured approach.
·  Understands system constraints and opportunities to inform design.
·  Works with development, design and architecture to design potential system and process solutions.
·  Prepares business cases for prioritisation.
·  Uses tools to handle requirements and traceability. Relationship Management
·  Builds strong intimacy with globally located colleagues and commercial partners.
·  Handles conflict resolution and achieves global consensus. Service Delivery
·  Provides quality and timely issue diagnosis, workaround or resolution and communications during production incidents.
·  Supports a global user community.
·  Works closely and shares knowledge with colleagues and across other teams.
·  Analyses and clearly documents defects, system improvements and change requests. Project Delivery
·  Supports the full project lifecycle including global delivery and Early Life Support in an Agile and DevOps environment
·  Coordinates dependencies on other workstreams
·  Provides quality assurance on analysis work through peer review.
·  Delivers clear user communications and handles user expectations. Testing
·  Writes comprehensive Acceptance Criteria for testers to build automated or manual testing.
·  Collaborates with test teams to provide functional expertise on test coverage and results
·  Leads User Acceptance Testing and obtains user sign off. Business Process Change
·  Leads business process workshops.
·  Analyses and maps business processes.
·  Finds opportunities for process improvements. Data Analysis
·  Analyses data flows to produce data models
·  Understands of data and object model designs
·  Uses SQL to interrogate data
·  Understands complex spreadsheets
Essential Education

Degree
Desirable criteria and qualifications

·  Foundation or ISEB Diploma in Business Analysis
·  Professional Scrum Master or Scrum Product Owner qualification
·  Experience in toolsets for handling requirements, for example Microsoft TFS, JIRA, SharePoint
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

28-Mar-2017
Sub-category

Business Analysis & Consulting
Job category

Information Technology & Services
Countries (State/Region)

Singapore

Desired profile

Essential experience and job requirements

Soft Skills

Be highly analytical – able to solve problem, absorb large amounts of detail and to see the big picture. Reconcile conflicting ideas and demands to provide clarity.

Be a good communicator – deliver messages effectively and concisely, on both a technical and a business level. Have excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Be self-motivated and self-starting – work with little supervision and pick up new or unfamiliar concepts quickly. Be confident and demonstrate good judgement. Be able to work in a demanding development environment.

Build capability – see opportunities to standardise practises, build knowledge transfer artefacts and perform knowledge transfer. Be an excellent colleague with the ability to influence others to achieve success.

Domain Knowledge
·  Physical and Derivative Deal life-cycles for Oil or other physical commodities
·  Trading business processes and in particular Front Office processes
·  All attributes of deals, especially physical deals
·  Core trading concepts such as risk and profit and loss
Systems Knowledge and Experience
·  Oil trading or other physical commodities.
·  Data flows between systems downstream of Front Office applications
·  Full software delivery lifecycle, including practical experience of Agile
Other Requirements (eg Travel, Location)

N/A