Job Title: M&ABusiness Analyst
Job Location: Sunbury (Hybrid 3 days Onsite & 2 days Remote)
Contract Length: 30th April 2026
Industry: Oil and Energy
Working Hours: 8 per day / 40 per week
Role Purpose
The M&A Business Analyst provides analytical and operational support across multiple divestments, with a strong focus on stranded cost analysis, data consolidation, and building structured, automated reporting. The role supports deal teams by bringing clarity to complex data, enabling decision-making, and ensuring high-quality analysis throughout the M&A lifecycle.
Key Responsibilities
- Pull together data from multiple sources (finance, business operations, regional cost bases, TSA models, vendor files) to create a clear, consistent baseline for each deal.
- Analyse and structure cost data to identify stranded costs, cost drivers, risks, and potential mitigations.
- Develop automated dashboards and reporting packs, enabling leadership to track stranded costs, TSA cost recovery, deal impacts, and variances across the M&A pipeline.
- Collaborate with the M&A technology project team and functional SMEs to define scope, requirements, and data needs.
- Refine and document business and technical requirements, ensuring alignment across finance, technology, operations, and programme teams.
- Support completeness of pre-completion tasks, including data validation, cutover readiness, scenario analysis, and governance reporting.
- Conduct data testing and checks to ensure accuracy prior to completion and hypercare
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Data/Analytics, or related field.
- Prior bp or energy sector experience helpful but not essential.
- Experience with dashboarding (Power BI), advanced Excel, or automation tools preferred.
Skills
- Exceptional analytical and data consolidation skills, able to interpret complex financial and operational data and generate actionable insights.
- Strong data structuring and modelling capability, including building repeatable templates across deals.
- Ability to automate reporting and build dynamic dashboards for leadership.
- Requirements management – ability to capture, document, and manage evolving deal needs.
- Strong project coordination skills; familiarity with Agile/Scrum beneficial.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement.
- Ability to manage cross-border work with attention to regulatory and data-handling requirements.
- Strong discipline in tracking risks, issues, and progress, with clear reporting.
