Business Analyst

This role will be responsible for deliveries across the Regulatory and Confirmation domain. You will deliver high quality support and in depth analytical capability for Commodities Trading and trading-related applications within a customer-focused environment.

The Business Analystis responsible for eliciting, defining and managing business requirements from stakeholders using structured business analysis tools, techniques and methodologies, to ensure that I&E delivers product(s) that successfully meet those needs, and that our customers experience is positive, and expectations are met.

Along with members of the CLAWS team, you will work directly with business users from the Regulatory and Confirmation team. You will be required to build strong relationships, based on open collaboration and trust with all stakeholders and team members.

Accountability:

• Conducting the core business analysis activities within a digital product landscape, discovering, analysing, ensuring that requirements are fit for purpose and aligned to a business value chain and agreed upon objectives; while working closely with the Product Manager and Product Owner to deliver the change
• Consequence scanning and identifying the impact of business requirements and solutions for target and interim scenarios
• Translating requirements into logical design specifications in alignment with the target environment, Non-functional requirements, and existing systems; along with supporting the development of detailed designs and documents using required standards, methods and tools
• Collaborate with the Product Owner and the team to prioritize the product backlog, assessing and providing inputs to release schedules and components, ensuring release processes and procedures are maintained. Carrying out testing and/or coordinating with testers and component specialists
• Analyse business needs and value drivers and relate this to digital and technology delivery
• Analysis, design thinking and agile techniques to shape epics and user stories. Define and write User Stories and Acceptance Criteria via design thinking and agile business analysis principles
• Work with the Scrum team on continuous story grooming and provide mentorship on future stories
• Organize sprint reviews with Product Owners to provide visibility and collect feedback. Facilitate dependencies, risks and issues across team utilizing scrum of scrum techniques for effective delivery
• Essential Experience & Requirements:
• Formal qualifications constituting university degrees.
• Membership of a technical or professional body that has confirmed an individual has reached a level of capability within a technical or professional field or Formal certification that they can undertake specialist work or processes e.g. PMI.
• Good understanding of gas and power trading (including the full deal lifecycle and all physical movements of gas and power operations)
• Understanding of Regulatory Reporting (EMIR, Remit, Mifid II)
• Proven analytical capability and experience in business analysis activities within the digital product landscape, critical determination of fundamental business needs and value drives, and working closely with the business teams to deliver the change
• Ensures personal compliance with BP’s Code of Conduct and demonstrates leadership aligned with BP’s Leadership Expectations and Values & Behaviours
• Business analysis experience, preferable in an Agile environment. Work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment
• Good change management skills and delivery assurance experience
• Can resolve conflicting ideas and demands to provide clarity and establish priorities that aligns with business objectives
• Ideally experience with agile development tools such as Azure DevOps and Jira.

This role will be responsible for deliveries across the Regulatory and Confirmation domain. You will deliver high quality support and in depth analytical capability for Commodities Trading and trading-related applications within a customer-focused environment.

The Business Analystis responsible for eliciting, defining and managing business requirements from stakeholders using structured business analysis tools, techniques and methodologies, to ensure that I&E delivers product(s) that successfully meet those needs, and that our customers experience is positive, and expectations are met.

Along with members of the CLAWS team, you will work directly with business users from the Regulatory and Confirmation team. You will be required to build strong relationships, based on open collaboration and trust with all stakeholders and team members.

Accountability:

• Conducting the core business analysis activities within a digital product landscape, discovering, analysing, ensuring that requirements are fit for purpose and aligned to a business value chain and agreed upon objectives; while working closely with the Product Manager and Product Owner to deliver the change
• Consequence scanning and identifying the impact of business requirements and solutions for target and interim scenarios
• Translating requirements into logical design specifications in alignment with the target environment, Non-functional requirements, and existing systems; along with supporting the development of detailed designs and documents using required standards, methods and tools
• Collaborate with the Product Owner and the team to prioritize the product backlog, assessing and providing inputs to release schedules and components, ensuring release processes and procedures are maintained. Carrying out testing and/or coordinating with testers and component specialists
• Analyse business needs and value drivers and relate this to digital and technology delivery
• Analysis, design thinking and agile techniques to shape epics and user stories. Define and write User Stories and Acceptance Criteria via design thinking and agile business analysis principles
• Work with the Scrum team on continuous story grooming and provide mentorship on future stories
• Organize sprint reviews with Product Owners to provide visibility and collect feedback. Facilitate dependencies, risks and issues across team utilizing scrum of scrum techniques for effective delivery
• Essential Experience & Requirements:
• Formal qualifications constituting university degrees.
• Membership of a technical or professional body that has confirmed an individual has reached a level of capability within a technical or professional field or Formal certification that they can undertake specialist work or processes e.g. PMI.
• Good understanding of gas and power trading (including the full deal lifecycle and all physical movements of gas and power operations)
• Understanding of Regulatory Reporting (EMIR, Remit, Mifid II)
• Proven analytical capability and experience in business analysis activities within the digital product landscape, critical determination of fundamental business needs and value drives, and working closely with the business teams to deliver the change
• Ensures personal compliance with BP’s Code of Conduct and demonstrates leadership aligned with BP’s Leadership Expectations and Values & Behaviours
• Business analysis experience, preferable in an Agile environment. Work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment
• Good change management skills and delivery assurance experience
• Can resolve conflicting ideas and demands to provide clarity and establish priorities that aligns with business objectives
• Ideally experience with agile development tools such as Azure DevOps and Jira.

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