Business Analyst

Entity:

Technology

Job Family Group:

IT&S Group

Job Description:

About us
Our purpose is to bring together people, energy and markets to power and navigate a changing world. In a time of constant change and possibility we need new talent to pursue commercial opportunities, fueled by world-class insight and expertise. Were always striving for more innovative digital solutions, sustainable outcomes and closer collaboration across our company and beyond, and you could be part of that too. Together we continue to grow as the worlds leading energy company!

A Business Analyst at bp provides enduring deep domain expertise to bridge the gap between business goals and technology solutions. Using techniques such as data analysis, customer and partner interviews and workshops, they gather, refine, and define business requirements and then collaborate with technology colleagues to deliver solutions that meet both user and business needs, ensuring successful roll-out and adoption of solutions.

This Business Analyst will work in an interactive Agile Scrum development team engaged in activities such as sprint planning, daily stand-ups, product backlog reviews & grooming, demos and retrospectives. The role holder will be responsible for eliciting, defining and managing business requirements from stakeholders using structured business analysis tools, techniques and methodologies, ensuring that delivered IT&S products and solutions successfully meet those needs, and that business users' expectations are met.

What you will deliver

User research: Engage with users, observe and analyze their workflows, and extract meaningful 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 various techniques such as interviews, workshops, and document analysis. Lead workshops to assemble and refine requirements, consider tradeoffs, and ensure a clear understanding of system constraints. Define and write User Stories and Acceptance Criteria via agile business analysis principles.

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.

Agile delivery and service support: Collaborate with the Product Owner and the team to prioritize the product backlog, support continuous story grooming, validate what has been delivered meets acceptance criteria, and diagnose issues and document change requests clearly and concisely in order to bring quick resolution.

What you will need to be successful (experience and qualifications)

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Superb oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to build positive relationships with a variety of domain experts.
• Business analysis experience, preferably in an Agile environment.
• Technical proficiency in areas such as data analysis and modeling, service design, and application design.
• Ability to resolve conflicting ideas and demands to provide clarity.
• Self-motivated to work with limited supervision and ability to work within a virtual global team environment.
• Ideally experience with tools such as Jira, TFS or similar.

At this level, the Business Analyst has confidence in applying theoretical and practical knowledge to solve predictable challenges in business analysis. They operate independently on well-defined problems and play a critical role in defining business requirements, supporting testing, and analyzing data to uncover actionable insights. Responsibilities include leading workshops to refine processes, managing stakeholder expectations, and delivering recommendations that drive efficiency.

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.
• Desirable: Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Professional Scrum Certification (PSC) or Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO).

Why join bp:
At bp, we support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and challenging 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. These benefits can include flexible working options, a generous paid parental leave policy, and excellent retirement benefits, among others!

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:

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 Structures and Algorithms (Inactive), Data visualization and interpretation, Digital Security, Extract, transform and load, Group Problem Solving

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 bps 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.