Senior Analyst Commodity Risk

bp•Chicago, IL

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Commodity Risk Analyst is a strategic support position within the Commodity Risk function and bp’s Trading and Shipping Finance. You will work with cross functional teams to develop solutions that drive continuous improvement and innovation across our commodity risk management teams. Areas of focus include interfaces with trading and supply benches, exposure and P&L reporting, and analytics to support business insights, including working capital and cash. This role will be based out of our Chicago, IL office.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree with finance, risk or other proven technical experience.
Good understanding of commodity risk management principles and practices.
Proficient in digital tools/languages such as PowerBI, Microsoft Office, VBA, Python, SQL, Power Automate, SharePoint, Trading & Risk Systems.

Responsibilities

Development of high quality, insightful, value added and automated management information.
Work closely with managers and analysts to understand and clarify requirements.
Identify/evaluate/recommend and implement digital applications/tools/solutions that can be leveraged by our commodity risk teams.
Identification, development, and/or implementation of tools, templates, and accelerators for ensuring timely validation of deal blotters and business summaries from the front office, price curves, deal level MTM, exposure and P&L.
Be a superuser for bp’s trading and risk management systems.
Support regional and global process standardization initiatives.
Work collaboratively with Global Finance and Risk team to follow standards and best practices for CI development.
Work with cross functional teams (i.e., front, middle, back office, information technology, operational excellence & transformation) to deliver continuous improvement and innovation initiatives.