Grade HResponsible for supporting the delivery of business analysis and consulting processes and procedures for the defined specialism using sound technical capabilities, building and maintaining effective working relationships, ensuring relevant standards are defined and maintained, and supporting delivery of process and system improvements. Specialisms: Business Analysis; Data Management and Data Science; Digital Innovation.Entity:
Innovation & Engineering

Job Family Group:
IT&S Group

Job Description:

Role Synopsis:

To be a part of team to transform BP's Gas & Power business, Contract Management & Regulatory Reporting tool modernization to deliver material changes to the confirmation and reporting function's systems and processes. You will be part of the team that works closely with the Back, Middle and Front offices to design, develop, and operate new systems and changes to existing trading, confirmations & reporting functions. You will use your experience and understanding of all aspects of energy trading and risk management to deliver quality solutions to our business. This includes different linear and non-linear instruments across commodities, markets and geographies allied with a deep functional understanding of concepts such as confirmations (electronic and paper), regulatory reporting (EMIR, REMIT). You will demonstrate good design principles in our key ETRM system (Openlink Endur), SmartDX Templating system and have experience of real-time reporting technologies. You will be familiar with Agile methodologies and know how to apply them at a practical level. You are a self-starter with a validated delivery track record in analysis, design, and configuration. Partnering with business users you will work as part of a diverse project team and build and manage a team of developers and analysts. BP is a diverse and inclusive workplace. We are proud of our fairness, equal opportunity and meritocracy which allows our employees to reach their full potential.

Key Accountabilities:

Project Delivery:

• Support the full project lifecycle including delivery and early life support
• Support other workstreams as directed by the programme lead
• Co-ordinate dependencies with other IT delivery work streams
• Provide quality assurance on analysis through peer review
• Deliver clear user communications
• Handle user expectations

Analysis and Design:

• Elicit requirements from business partners at all levels including leading requirements and design workshops. Ensure these requirements eliminate ambiguity, conflict, and redundancy!
• Configure key systems to support these requirements
• Produce high quality analysis, including collecting detailed and accurate user stories and acceptance criteria to be used by developers and test automation frameworks
• Understand system constraints and opportunities to inform design
• Work with design and architecture on design options and potential system and process solutions
• Use tools to handle requirements and traceability
• Manage cross-team consensus and acceptance of requirements, ensuring relevant signoffs

Relationship and Customer Management:

• Build strong business intimacy with commercial partners
• Work closely with the IT teams in London and India and with our global user community

Testing:

• Collaborate well with test automation team
• Ensure that the team produce test scenarios for both automated and manual testing
• Ensure unit and regression testing is at appropriate levels
• Conduct User Acceptance Testing

Essential Experience and Job Requirements:

• A good communicator able to deliver your message effectively and concisely at different levels including to senior management. Equally comfortable conversing about technical or business issues in either verbal or written form.
• A self-starter able to pick up new or unfamiliar concepts quickly with little supervision. Be confident and demonstrate good judgement. Be able to work in a demanding development environment.
• Build team capability and enhance our standards. Build knowledge transfer artefacts and perform knowledge transfer.
• Be an excellent teammate, with the ability to influence and grow others to achieve success

Proven Experience:

• Thorough understanding of a commodity trading business across Front, Middle and Back-office teams. This should be both broad in terms of commodity (LNG, Gas, Power, Emissions), instrument types (forwards, futures, options, swing, storage etc.) and functional (see below)
• Deep knowledge of how Endur maps to trading with a focus on back office and front office functional areas
• Detailed appreciation of key trading platforms, contract management and regulatory reporting concepts (EMIR, REMIT) and systems knowledge
• Knowledge and Experience of SmartDX to build and handle confirmation templates
• Document data requirements to analyze new requirements, undertake business process mapping activity, and highlight any overlaps with existing processes.
• Work within exacting timelines of Regulatory projects and constantly evolving requirements because of changing market structures or evolving legal interpretation

Travel Requirement
Up to 10% travel should be expected with this role

Relocation Assistance:
This role is not eligible for relocation

Remote Type:
This position is not available for 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, Data visualization and interpretation, Digital Security, Extract, transform and load, Group Problem Solving

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