Senior Business Analyst- Commodity Trading - Appcast Enterprise : Job Details

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About us 

At bp, we’re reimagining energy for people and our planet. With operations working across almost every part of the energy system, we’re owning the way in reducing carbon emissions and developing more sustainable methods for solving the energy challenge. We’re a team with multi-layered strengths of engineers, scientists, traders and business professionals determined to find answers to problems.  

And we know we can’t do it alone. We’re looking for people who share our passion for reinvention, to bring fresh opinions, ambition, and to challenge our thinking in our goal to achieve net zero.    

We believe our portfolio of businesses and investments in growth and transformation will result in a company with the scale, brand, capabilities, talent, and values to succeed as the digital revolution transforms our society, our industry and our planet.? 

Role Synopsis  

• Do you want to work alongside traders in a dynamic environment where time matters, and everyone is always looking for the next edge?
• Are you passionate about solving complex business problems at scale?  
• Do you dream of well-designed and intuitive products and customer experiences?  

If you answered yes to all these questions, then this role in business analysis at bp may be a good fit for you. 

The Business Analyst is responsible for the definition and development of a digital product, ensuring customer need, strategic alignment, feature reuse and innovation are led throughout the Product Lifecycle. This includes but is not limited to understanding and communicating customer requirements, capturing and prioritizing product features at the strategic level; shaping the product strategy and vision; functionally designing solutions and ensuring successful roll-out and adoption.

Refining, Products and Trading (RPT) is bp’s oil trading division.  This highly dynamic and profitable business employs 100s of traders across the globe.  This role is to help build out RPT’s arbitrage and blending product (“Gordon”) to surface new opportunities, enabling those traders to make better decisions, secure more business and make more money for the company. 

Key accountabilities and experience by skill categories 

Human centered: 

• Ability to immerse yourself in knowing your customer(s) needs to reimagine and innovate product solutions.? 
• Demonstrable track record of discovering customer needs and translating them into inspirational, innovative solutions and detailed product requirements.
• Work closely with business teams, leaders, science, and engineering teams in an agile development environment to launch new products, platforms, features and experiences which delight our customers.
• Know how to bring customer problem discovery and user experience into the behaviors of the team and apply them optimally.
• Experience in collaborating with teams in using relevant agile frameworks, such as Scrum and Kanban.
• Strong customer-centric approach and can demonstrate how you have previously built customer need and value into your products.

Business focused: 

• Partner daily with DevOps squads to develop and run digital applications, ensuring the voice of the customer is incorporated into the product team activity, maintaining an up-to-date delivery roadmap with a clear focus on business value.
• Provide visibility of delivery to internal and external partners, raising issues as required to drive product launches.
• As needed, support the management of service outcomes with suppliers and partners who provide developers to augment your team.
• You'll contribute in crafting product vision and product roadmaps with an agile delivery approach in partnership with Tech while managing cyber, operational and/or regulatory risks.
• You will be an owner a subset of product of features; making strategic product recommendations which are grounded in data and insights.
• You will assist in shaping the product roadmap to bring the broader team’s vision to life by collaborating with a cross-functional team of engineers, designers, business partners, data professionals and other collaborators.
• You will lead the day-to-day product development schedule from design through to release for your portfolio of features, own the product life cycle, and define and monitor metrics that measure the success of the product.
• You will have a strong understanding of SDLC practices, with agile practices preferred.
• You will have experience in data modeling and data analytics. Able to extract and analyze data using SQL and spreadsheets.
• You will have strong business-focused problem-solving skills.

Technology driven: 

• You will partner with your technology peers and to influence end-state architecture and drive secure, resilient, performant, and scalable technology solutions that solve material business problems? 
• Coordinate across collaborating software development teams to drive technology integration requirements and processes 
• Familiarity with Design Thinking? 
• Experience of Software Development and Software Operations along with the concept of DevOps 
• Experience of prioritizing backlogs, providing guidance and empowering the team to perform most optimally 
• Must have a solid grasp of software-as-a-service, web services, service design & application design 
• You will be responsible for collecting requirements, writing detailed functional specifications, and will convey these to the development team and verify the software produced meets expectations with the customer

Transformational Leadership

• Guides teams to reflect and identify improvements, working with teams remove obstacles and resolve issues 
• You'll influence a broad set of stakeholders across the enterprise to successfully deliver on the product vision? 
• You will need to demonstrate the ability to successfully influence stakeholders without formal authority, leading cross functional teams across geographies and business units? 
• Be able to demonstrate technical fluency; comfort understanding and discussing technology concepts, schedule tradeoffs and new opportunities with technical team members? 
• Ability to communicate, collaborate and influence effectively 

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