M&A Business Analyst (contract)
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Occupation Type
Management consultants and business analysts
Occupation Code Skill LevelHigher Skilled
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£50,200
(£25.74 per hour)
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Description
Job Title: Business Analyst
Job Location: Sunbury-on-Thames (Hybrid) OR Remote (UK)
Contract Length: 6 Months
Industry: Oil and Energy
Working Hours: 8 per day/ 40 per week
Role Overview:
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.
What you will do:
Job Location: Sunbury-on-Thames (Hybrid) OR Remote (UK)
Contract Length: 6 Months
Industry: Oil and Energy
Working Hours: 8 per day/ 40 per week
Role Overview:
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.
What you will do:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.