Job Description:

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.

The Market Data Business Analyst will report directly to the ST&S Global Manager for Market Data and play a key role in delivering comprehensive business analysis across all aspects of market data at bp. This role will focus on understanding business requirements, optimizing data processes, and supporting strategic initiatives to ensure accurate, timely, and cost-effective market data solutions.

Key Accountabilities

• Review of product/service requests from the business to ensure suitability, consistency and cost effectiveness.
• Data sourcing recommendations
• Analysis of Market Data Pricing & Reference data-feeds, processes and enterprise data management
• Understanding of data challenges: global differences, cross asset vendor identifiers, legal entity data, file formats, usage rights and compliance.
• Analysis and updates with respect to Rights Policies pertaining to Exchanges/Trading Venues.
• Create strong Business and vendor partnerships
• Onsite visits across the BP Group liaising with all business users
• Providing data cost optimization for users on demand to assist in cost management challenges
• Full understanding of realtime and non-realtime market data systems, services and data.
• Entitlements and permissioning systems knowledge
• Appreciation of technical delivery systems used for Market Data, both real time and non-real time.
• Product comparative/gap analysis
• Product and service knowledge of all the major Market Data vendors
• Experience of presenting MD financials/spend and reporting
• You will partner across all levels of seniority within the BP Group to deliver value and consistency
• Understanding of all execution platforms related to Commodities Trading

Essential Criteria & Qualifications

• Business Analysis experience within Market Data preferred
• Demonstrable commercial experience
• Ability to lead global business use of market data and define, implement and deliver global market data compliance strategy
• Display consistent track record of liaising with colleagues at all levels across IT and the Business.
• Possess excellent product and market knowledge.
• Strong written and verbal communications skills.
• Ability to articulate and negotiate priorities with business users and IT teams, as well as with vendors
• Strong analytical & problem solving skills.
• Self-motivated, enthusiastic and proven rapid learning capability
• Excellent teamwork skills
• Full understanding of the regulatory and compliance requirements for Market Data
• Strong focus on continuous strategic implementation and delivery, stakeholder and vendor management.
• Understand the use and constraints of AI relating to Market Data

Why join us?

At bp, we provide an excellent working environment and employee benefits such as an open and inclusive culture, a great work-life balance, tremendous learning and development opportunities to craft your career path, life and health insurance, medical care package and many others.

We support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and exciting environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity. We are committed to crafting an inclusive environment in which everyone is respected and treated fairly.

There are many aspects of our employees' lives that are significant, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life. These benefits can include flexible working options, collaboration spaces in a modern office environment, and others benefits.

Reinvent your career as you help our business meet the challenges of the future. Apply now!

Travel Requirement
Negligible travel should be expected with this role

Relocation Assistance:
This role is not eligible for relocation

Remote Type:
This position is a hybrid of office/remote working

Skills:
Agility core practices, Analytical Thinking, Computational Thinking, Continuous Learning, Data Analysis, Data cleansing and transformation, Data Management, Data Sourcing, Data visualization and interpretation, Dialogue enablement, Exposure Management, Machine Learning, Macroeconomics, Market analysis methods, Market Risk Management, Sentiment and Trends, Statistics, Trade execution and management, Trading Fundamentals, Trading knowledge

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.

If you are selected for a position and depending upon your role, your employment may be contingent upon adherence to local policy. This may include pre-placement drug screening, medical review of physical fitness for the role, and background checks.