Job Description

Job summary

Entity:

Technology

Job Family Group:

IT&S Group

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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.


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. They lead workshops to assemble and refine requirements, consider tradeoffs, and ensure a clear understanding of system constraints. Additionally, they collaborate with design teams to develop solutions that meet both business and user 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 implements 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 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.
Technical proficiency in areas such as data analysis and modeling, service design, and application design.

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. The ability to bridge business requirements and technical solutions becomes a key strength, supported by a growing ability to oversee complex tasks from start to finish.

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.

About bp

Our purpose is to deliver energy to the world, today and tomorrow. For over 100 years, bp has focused on discovering, developing, and producing oil and gas in the nations where we operate. We are one of the few companies globally that can provide governments and customers with an integrated energy offering. Delivering our strategy sustainably is fundamental to achieving our ambition to be a net zero company by 2050 or sooner!


We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Travel Requirement

Negligible travel should be expected with this role

Relocation Assistance:

This role is eligible for relocation within country

Remote Type:

This position is a hybrid of office/remote working

Skills:

Analytical Thinking, Business Analysis, Business Analysis Tools, Business Analytics, Business Requirements, Data Analysis, Technical Solutions

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.



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