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Job Description
Our purpose is to deliver energy to the world, today and tomorrow. For over 100 years, bp has focused on discovering, developing, and producing oil and gas in the nations where we operate. We are one of the few companies globally that can provide governments and customers with an integrated energy offering. Delivering our strategy sustainably is fundamental to achieving our ambition to be a net zero company by 2050 or sooner.
About the Role
We are seeking a highly motivated and diligent Finance Lead to join Project BOND on a fixed term contract. Project BOND replaces our core Back Office (BOS) and Point of Sale (POS) systems as well as introducing a new Retail Abstraction Layer. This role is pivotal in supporting the Finance workstream by collecting current-state processes, defining future-state solutions, and ensuring successful delivery of functionality that meets business needs, controls and standards. The role will act as a key interface between the Finance function (including FBT / BTC where the post holder will have responsibility for handling their workload and input to the project on a day to day basis) and multi-functional teams including Supply Chain, Trading/Convenience, Operations, Technology, and Tax to ensure a seamless transformation. The role holder will lead the design and embedding of the finance control environment. Ensure all processes meet internal control standards and are auditable. Lead engagement with internal audit and ensure evidence of design and operating effectiveness. Drive financial governance including budget control, approvals, change management and benefits tracking. Ensure RACI and decision frameworks are clearly defined and followed.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end finance process design (Order to Cash, Procure to Pay, Record to Report, Inventory, Cash) considering implications across functions finance, tax, legal
- Own 'as-is' and 'to-be' process definition and standardisation
- Embed financial controls and ensure audit readiness
- Establish programme financial governance, including budget, forecasting and change control
- Support and report on programme financials and benefits tracking
- Act as Finance SPA and align partners across business and technology
- Lead finance requirements and ensure integration into delivery lifecycle
- Identify and mitigate financial and control risks
Process Mapping & Analysis
- Support the documentation of and validation of “as-is” and “to-be” processes related to all finance related activities or areas that will have an impact on finance.
- Identify problems and opportunities for improvement and streamlining of workflows.
Requirements Gathering & Documentation
- Build comprehensive business requirements for finance, thinking end to end at all times and it’s impact on other elements in the wider bp group e.g. tax, legal entities, reporting etc.
- Collaborate with partners to ensure functional and non-functional requirements are fully reflected in design documents.
Partner Engagement & Sign-off
- Engage with key participants across Trading, Supply Chain, Finance, Operations, Technology and wider group bp entities to validate requirements and secure sign-off via regular 1-2-1s and additionally at PDA reviews.
- Facilitate workshops and walkthroughs to align on business needs and solution capabilities with respective PDA LT member and support other business SMEs in conversations with their PDA LT member as and when required to support story telling from a finance standpoint.
User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
- Define and maintain detailed user acceptance criteria and test scripts.
- Coordinate and support UAT activities across finance teams (including BTC, FBT and in country teams), ensuring timely defect resolution and traceability to business needs.
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Pilot Execution & Readiness
- Play a key role in pilot planning, criteria definition, and phased execution.
- Monitor pilot performance, collect feedback, and recommend changes for wider rollout.
- Ensure key manual processes/activities and tasks are brought together for Day 1 and there are responsible individuals who can complete these tasks.
Training & Change Communications
- Work alongside internal teams (FBT, BTC and market teams) to co-create engaging training content and support materials.
- Supply to the change communication plan to ensure smooth adoption by finance users.
Skills & Experience
- Senior finance leader with at least 5+ years of retail and convenience business experience, transformation or ERP experience, with strong partner management and influencing skills
- Good understanding of the finance processes and internal controls include AP, AR, Reporting and it’s wider impacts e.g. Tax, Legal entities, group reporting etc
- Experience of bp systems, processes, controls and SOPs and knowledge of the e2e impacts
- Able to effectively lead a ‘dotted line’ team in FBT/BTC and manage workload and focuses accordingly.
- Comfortable engaging multi-functional interested parties and aligning diverse business needs into a single solution design.
- Familiar with current systems and processes used within a convenience retail training environment.
- Able to balance diligent tasks with critical thinking and process optimisation
- Open-minded, proactive, and adaptable to new ways of working and system-led transformation.
Desirable Attributes
- Good communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity and working in a fast-paced, change-oriented environment.
- Structured, resilient and delivery-focused
- Deep understanding of retail and convenience business processes
Key Success Criteria
- Audit-ready controls with no significant deficiencies
- Fully documented and approved finance processes
- Delivery within approved financial envelope
- Clear benefits tracking and value realisation
- Effective risk management
- Strong partner confidence
Job Summary
We are seeking a highly motivated Data Analyst to join BP Supply, Trading & Shipping. This role will be crucial in demonstrating data to drive informed commercial decisions, ensuring data quality, and contributing to our data strategy and governance initiatives.
Job Responsibilities
- Perform comprehensive data analysis to identify trends, patterns, and insights that support commercial objectives.
- Execute data cleansing and transformation processes to ensure data accuracy and consistency.
- Integrate data from various sources, applying robust Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) methodologies.
- Develop and maintain data management practices to ensure data integrity and accessibility.
- Manipulate large datasets to extract relevant information and support analytical requirements.
- Proactively identify and source new data opportunities to enhance analytical capabilities.
- Contribute to the development and implementation of BP's data strategy and governance frameworks.
- Create compelling data visualizations and interpret complex data findings for diverse audiences.
- Collaborate effectively in group problem-solving sessions to address data-related challenges.
- Adhere to digital security protocols and guidelines in all data handling activities.
Job Qualifications
- Demonstrable experience in data analysis, with a good understanding of various analytical techniques.
- Demonstrated commercial competence and the ability to translate data insights into business value.
- Superb communication skills, both written and verbal, for presenting complex data clearly.
- Proficiency in data cleansing and transformation tools and methodologies.
- Strong data domain knowledge relevant to the energy sector (preferred).
- Experience with data integration and ETL processes.
- Solid understanding of data management principles and procedures.
- Advanced skills in data manipulation using relevant software (e.g., SQL, Python, R).
- Ability to effectively source and evaluate new data opportunities.
- Familiarity with data strategy and governance concepts.
- Expertise in data visualization tools and interpreting complex data outputs.
- Awareness of digital security principles and data privacy regulations.
- Strong collaborative and group problem-solving abilities.
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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 meaningful, 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 essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
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Travel Requirement
Negligible travel should be expected with this role
Relocation Assistance
This role is not eligible for relocation
Remote Type
This position is a hybrid of office/remote working
Skills
- Agility core practices
- Agility core practices
- Agreements and negotiations
- Analytical Thinking
- Business process improvement
- Commercial Acumen
- Communication
- Conflict Management
- Continuous Improvement
- Continuous Learning
- Creativity and Innovation
- Customer centric thinking
- Customer data knowledge
- Data Analysis
- Data visualization and interpretation
- Decision Making
- Digital Collaboration
- Digital Fluency
- Industry knowledge and advocacy
- Integrated pricing
- Leading transformation
- Negotiation planning and preparation
- Offer and product knowledge
- Offer execution and growth
- Operational Excellence
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We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, socioeconomic status, neurodiversity/neurocognitive functioning, veteran status or disability status.
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