Fundamentals Modelling & Innovation Analyst

Job Description:

About us

Our purpose is to bring together people, energy and markets to power and navigate a changing world. In a time of constant change and possibility we need new talent to pursue commercial opportunities, fueled by world-class insight and expertise. We're always striving for more innovative digital solutions, sustainable outcomes and closer collaboration across our company and beyond, and you could be part of that too. Together we continue to grow as the world's leading energy company!

Let me tell you about the role

Fundamentals Modelling & Innovation (FM&I) analysts work as part of a global team in self-empowered, cross-discipline squads. We endeavour to continuously improve Trading Analytics & Insights' (TA&I) Analytics Edge, developing and automating fundamentals models to enable our partners across T&S to respond more accurately, efficiently, and holistically to market events, maximising commercial opportunities. You will play a key role working in diverse squads to develop innovative solutions to exciting business problems in a highly multifaceted commercial environment.

While working with traders and market strategists to provide focused analytical expertise to deliver high-quality, robust modelling and tooling to support commercial decision making, FM&I Analysts will use their experience of modelling protocols, and econometrics to drive forward analytical efficiency.

The teams are embedded within diverse, multidisciplinary squads that exhibit strong collaboration, a growth mindset and a passion to continually innovate and improve. Innovation is a core principle that we believe is critical to maintaining a competitive edge. We foster creative thinking and support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and challenging environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity. We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment in which everyone feels empowered, respected and treated fairly.

What you will deliver

Responsible for delivering analysis and modelling to provide commercial insights, leveraging relationships to stay up to date with internal developments in statistical techniques, whilst identifying

process improvements and applying insights from the external environment.

Key Accountabilities

• Knowledge and experience in global energy markets with the ability to identify and prioritise fundamental and quantitative analysis/modelling that provides commercial insights to the trading organisation.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to communicate analytics to necessary stakeholders and influence commercial decisions.
• Develop and implement fundamental balances, pricing models and other tools to surface commercial opportunities within the low-carbon, power, gas, and oil markets, harnessing guidelines and sophisticated modelling techniques.
• Engage with stakeholders (traders and analysts) to ensure that solutions/models are optimal, deliver deep commercial insight and are fully adopted.
• Identify repetitive processes that can be standardised into modules that can be reused across projects.
• Develop strong partnerships within TA&I and across trading to ensure critical information is captured and leveraged in our models.

What you will need to be successful

Essential Experience

• Undergraduate degree in STEM subject or quantitative field.
• Track record of connecting and collaborating across and within teams to create commercially actionable models.
• Experience with a range of modelling techniques including, regression, time series analysis, forecast modelling and machine learning.
• Excellent problem-solving skills.
• Experience using a coding language to develop models and analytical tools.
• Experience manipulating and analysing large, complex datasets.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Creative problem solver that can find alternative solutions to complex problems.
• Desire to continually improve with a passion to innovate and the ability to develop new analytical methodologies.
• Ability and desire to work in a fast-paced, dynamic trading environment.
• Fluent English knowledge and ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing

Desirable Experience & Skills

• Practical knowledge of data engineering practices (designing and building robust data pipelines)
• Knowledge of python and core libraries applicable to data science (e.g., pandas, numpy, statsmodels, scikit-learn, etc...)
• Experience using visualisation tools to surface analytics; Power BI and Plotly Dash preferred
• Experience working with a data science platform; Dataiku preferred
• Understanding of SQL
• Experience working within an Agile squad
• Experience as a market analyst
• Knowledge of USA or other regional energy markets (e.g., low-carbon, oil, gas, LNG, or power).
• Understanding of supply and demand drivers together with how physical and related financial instruments are traded

How much we pay (Base): $132,000 - $189,000 *Note that the pay range listed for this position is a genuinely expected and reasonable estimate of the range of possible base compensation at the time of posting.

This position is eligible for US Benefits - Core. This position offers paid vacation depending on your years of relevant industry experience and will range from 120 - 240 hours[LC1] of vacation per year for full time employees (60 - 240 hours of vacation per year for part time employees). You will also be eligible for 9 paid holidays per year and 2 personal choice holidays. You may learn more about how we calculate paid vacation and view our generous vacation and holiday schedules at Core U.S. Benefits. Bp has a parental leave policy as well, which offers up to 8 weeks' paid leave for the birth or adoption of a child. Learn more by visiting Core U.S. Benefits.

We offer a reward package to enable your work to fit with your life. These offerings include a discretionary annual bonus program, long-term incentive program, and generous retirement benefits that include a 401k matching program. These benefits include a pension for eligible employee[LC2] . You may learn more about our generous benefits at Core U.S. Benefits.

As part of bp's wellbeing package, bp offers access to health, vision, and dental insurance, as well as life and Short-Term Disability and Long-Term Disability. You may learn more about our generous benefits at Core U.S. Benefits.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform crucial job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Don't hesitate to get in touch with us to request any accommodations.

Why join bp:

At bp, we support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and challenging environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity. We are committed to encouraging an inclusive environment in which everyone is respected and treated fairly.

There are many aspects of our employees' lives that are meaningful, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life. These benefits can include flexible working options, a generous paid parental leave policy, and excellent retirement benefits, among others!

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 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.