Business Analyst

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Job description

Job Profile SummaryInnovation & EngineeringJoin us in creating, growing, and delivering innovation at pace, enabling us to thrive while transitioning to a net zero world. All without compromising our operational risk management. Working with us, you can do this by:deploying our integrated capability and standards in service of our net zero and safety ambitionsdriving our digital transformation and pioneering new business modelscollaborating to deliver competitive customer-focused energy solutionsoriginating, scaling and commercialising innovative ideas, and creating ground-breaking new businesses from themprotecting us by assuring management of our greatest physical and digital risks.Because together we are:Originators, builders, guardians and disruptors.Engineers, technologists, scientists and entrepreneurs.Empathetic, curious, creative and inclusive.The Markets & Midstream Digital (MMD) team sits within bp's Innovation & Engineering (I&E) entity, and supports the digital enablement and acceleration of bp's Trading, Shipping and Midstream businesses.The Cross-portfolio team within MMD has a unique cross business focus, bringing shared digital products for use across business lines, and a focus on collaboration within MMD as we set out a digital strategy, roadmap, and collaborative forums to share ideas and best practice.Job AdvertThis role will focus on our Strategy and Operational Excellence activities, bringing teams together to set out a compelling vision for our digital activity and helping our teams engage with our shared agendaWe are looking for a driven, motivated, self-starter Business Analyst to join a small and passionate team who can demonstrate the followingComfort with ambiguity, proven ability to bring structure and planning to deliver our agreed goalsSkill in bringing disparate groups together, understanding shared challenges and pain points, and leading groups towards shared goals with influenceExperience in application of agile techniques to describe and prioritize work, bringing all stakeholders on the journey to deliver iterative business valueCommercial focus, and experience in using data to drive decisionsAdaptability to varied work demands, while not losing the drive of being outcome focusedHas excellent communication skills to engage and keep engagement of others throughout the organizationKEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:Works with Product Owners on planning and maintaining an up-to-date delivery roadmap with a clear focus on business value. Manages ongoing prioritization of product backlogs within the assigned portfolioSupport analysis of baselines, measures, and interdependencies of value streams to drive benefits realizationDefines and writes User Stories and Acceptance Criteria via design thinking and agile business analysis principles.Produces various business artefacts such as checklists, work item backlogs, stakeholder maps, terms of reference, data dictionaries to facilitate workstream/project deliveryWorks with the Scrum team on continuous story grooming and provide mentorship on future stories. Validates what has been delivered meets the stated user story acceptance criteria. Helps organize sprint reviews with Product Owners to provide visibility and collect feedback.Helps facilitate dependencies, risks and issues across teamProduces & shares insights from data following various steps such as data gathering, data transformation and dashboardingAs a comms manager, provides strategic rigor to the implementation considering the wider context of objectives and the organization, applying messaging frameworks and delivering comms tasks effectively.Relationship management with a wide range of senior business stakeholdersSupports teams in using relevant agile frameworks, such as Scrum and KanbanBrings together different disciplines to support alignment across the organization.A Customer centric mindset - guide our thinking and behaviour in delivering better experiences for our customersEDUCATION:Bachelor's or Master's degree with business & digital acumen (preferably in a STEM subject)Qualifications and/or formal training as a Business AnalystScrum qualification and/or experienceTraining/knowledge or experience of service management tools such as ServiceNow, Service Center or RemedyTraining and/or experience of using data visualization tools such as Power BI, Tableau or other modern data visualization toolsJOB REQUIREMENTS:Business analysis experience, preferable in an Agile environment.A good overall knowledge of project delivery, be delivery orientated.Can resolve conflicting ideas and demands to provide clarity.The ability to deliver a message effectively and concisely at all levels, on both a technical and a business level.Ability to work within a virtual global team environment.Self-motivated to work with some supervision.Ideally experience with Azure Dev Ops or similar tools such as Jira.Ability to plan, facilitate & conduct workshops with wide variety of stakeholders#bpDigitalStrategyProductLeadershipEntityInnovation & EngineeringJob Family GroupIT&S GroupRelocation availableNoTravel requiredNoCountryUnited KingdomAbout BPINNOVATION & ENGINEERINGJoin us in creating, growing, and delivering innovation at pace, enabling us to thrive while transitioning to a net zero ‎world. All without compromising our operational risk management.Working with us, you can do this by:deploying our integrated capability and standards in service of our net zero and ‎safety ambitionsdriving our digital transformation and pioneering new business modelscollaborating to deliver competitive customer-focused energy solutionsoriginating, scaling and commercialising innovative ideas, and creating ground-breaking new ‎businesses from themprotecting us by assuring management of our greatest physical and digital risksBecause together we are:Originators, builders, guardians and disruptorsEngineers, technologists, scientists and entrepreneurs‎Empathetic, curious, creative and inclusive