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Distillates Commercial Analyst
Trading & Markets
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Supply, Trading & Shipping
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Job Description:
The Distillates Commercial Analyst plays a critical role within BP’s Trading & Shipping (T&S) organization, supporting our mission to transform and connect the global energy market. Sitting directly on the trading bench, you will work closely with RPTE traders to ensure accurate, timely exposure reporting, high‑quality deal capture, and strong commercial insight that supports value creation across the portfolio.
This role requires precision, curiosity, and the ability to understand complex trading structures. You will collaborate with traders, commercial teams across London, Chicago, Houston, and Singapore, as well as internal support functions and external counterparties. The position reports to either the Commodity Commercial Manager or Commercial Advisor, depending on the commodity line.
Key Accountabilities
In this role, we support the bench by ensuring the book is accurate, timely, and aligned with trading activity. This includes managing daily exposure, maintaining pricing and valuations, capturing deals correctly, and working closely with traders so positions and strategies are reflected properly throughout the day. We also assist with commercial development by analysing grade values, pricing benchmarks, and supporting the lifecycle of deals as they progress operationally.
Primary responsibilities
Managing daily exposure for all trading books, including morning position updates, reconciliations, intraday moves, and end‑of‑day position explanations
Conducting timely and accurate deal entry and responding to support‑function queries
Managing daily and forward pricing, refreshing curves, and publishing daily prices
Post‑deal management including FX hedges, futures expiry, EFPs, and trigger‑price processes
Managing pricing options, evaluating structure options, executing rolls, and nominating pricing to third parties
Ensuring lifecycle valuation accuracy across operational amendments, blending/regrades, exposure‑modelled deals, and dummy deals
Supporting daily P&L accuracy and T0 valuation validation
Supporting on‑bench business development and origination, including grade value analysis, pricing benchmarks, and complexity assessments
Developing capability to manage daily third‑party relationships with smaller producers
Additional responsibilities
Managing the cost‑reconciliation process (freight, demurrage, etc.)
Supporting working‑capital funding structures and RAN targets
Understanding inter‑regional cargo optimisation
Monitoring and clearing failed valuations and ensuring MTM policy alignment
Supporting T&S strategic programmes to streamline and simplify processes.
Essential Experience & Requirements
Strong analytical and numeracy skills with experience in a commercial environment.
Technical understanding of derivatives and physical trading.
Ability to prioritise and organise workload autonomously.
Open, confident communication style with willingness to challenge and seek clarity.
Ability to explain key issues succinctly.
Highly effective team player, eager to learn and share knowledge.
Self‑starter with a track record of solving business problems.
Innovative mindset with interest in technology and analytics.
Spanish and/or French language skills are desirable but not essential, given the global nature of stakeholder and counterparty interactions.
Why Join Us?
At BP, we support our people to grow in a diverse and exciting environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity.
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, a generous paid parental leave policy, excellent retirement benefits, among others.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
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