Business Analyst at BP Southern Africa (BPSA)

Job Profile Summary

• Transformation is a strategic productivity and operations enabler, and there is a significant demand for end-to-end transformation delivery in support of the functions. This is an important role within the Transformation team, with a primary objective of delivering business initiatives & projects.
• This role will require Business Analyst competencies to work on the transformation projects capturing business requirements, testing, change management and process support. The incumbent will also be a key player in driving of small scale automations using RPA, Citizen Developer, O365 and other BP digital tools.

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Key Accountabilities
The incumbent will have strong collaborative capabilities, working together with the other Project members, Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Operations SME. Key activities would be:

• Leading project delivery & automation on small scale initiatives & projects
• Consolidation & driving completing of Service Catalogues
• Leading BPM in the Centre
• Participating in end-to-end process assessments & mapping for projects
• Participating in all parts of a project lifecycle (e.g. capturing & documenting business requirements)
• Participating in the creation of the Business Case and input into prioritisation
• Benefits realisation tracking and reporting Project Management
• May provide coaching or professional guidance to peers or cross-function teams
• May handle escalations and contributes in root cause analysis
• Uses CI methodology in connection with workflows, projects, etc
• Supporting Global Programmes including One Procurement
• Uses BPs automation tools including RPA, Salesforce, MS Tools to deliver automation

Qualification & Experience and Competencies
Essential Education

• Bachelor’s degree in business or related field

Essential Experience

• Relevant experience in a multinational environment
• Good communicator in the BP Business language
• Strong stakeholder management skills
• Strong financial acumen
• Budget management, business case and financial workbook management
• Worked with cross functional and globally dispersed stakeholders to understand business outcome requirements
• Ability to manage multiple sources of information to provide insights
• Experience of working within a projectized environment
• Advanced automation skills in MS tools and other automation tools (including RDA, Salesforce Citizen developer, Microsoft PowerBI, Microsoft Power apps, etc)
• Process mapping in Visio, Aris or other similar process tools
• Experience in technology & automation tools like Office 365, etc
• Familiarity with a Project Delivery Methodology including Agile & Scrum

Desirable Criteria

• Experience in Procurement projects will be desirable to support global programmes
• Exposure to project implementations and experience of documenting requirements
• Demonstrate shared commitment to team success and ability to partner; anticipate the interests and concerns of individuals and group and build common ideas and viewpoints in conflict situations
• Ability to rapidly identify key issues in a complex situation use conceptual skills to anticipate, identify, and prioritise highly complex issues
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment where answers are not in a policy manual and innovative and creative thinking is encouraged
• Knowledge of Management of Change process and tracking