M&A Business Analyst

Job Title: M&A Business Analyst

Job Location: Sunbury on Thames - Hybrid

Contract Length: up to April 2026

Industry: Oil and Energy, Legal

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.