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Castrol - Finance Business Partner - Castrol Digital

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Job Description
Our purpose is to bring together people, energy and markets to power and navigate a changing world. In a time of constant change and possibility we need new talent to pursue commercial opportunities, fuelled by world-class insight and expertise. We’re always striving for more innovative digital solutions, sustainable outcomes and closer collaboration across our company and beyond, and you could be part of that too.
This role for someone with strong commercial savvy, problem-solving skills, and the ability to co-create solutions to category challenges while cultivating partner relationships and developing insights into supply markets, including emerging technologies and progressives.
About the Role
We are looking for a Finance Business Partner – Digital to join the Castrol Finance team and play a key role in shaping how digital investments bring value for the business. This is a senior individual-contributor role, offering high visibility and the opportunity to work closely with senior Digital and Finance leaders during an important period of change and transformation.
As a trusted advisor, you will partner with Digital leadership to support strategic decision-making, strengthen financial rigor, and ensure digital spend is aligned to Castrol’s business priorities. You will translate complex financial information into clear, practical insight that supports both operational and long-term outcomes. This is a role within the Castrol organisation and the successful candidate will become part of the Castrol ring-fence. If you are part of the ring-fence, it is expected that your employment will move with Castrol to new ownership. Please note that roles based out of SJS or Sunbury will move to Timber Square, Southwark, from Q4 2027.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Act as a strategic finance partner to the Digital leadership team, including the CIO.
- Provide insight on digital financial performance, highlighting risks, opportunities, and recommendations.
- Lead budgeting, forecasting, and multi-year planning for the Digital function.
- Develop and review robust financial models, investment cases, and scenario analysis.
- Monitor and govern digital Opex, Capex and Revex, including cloud, software, infrastructure and major programmes.
- Support cost transparency, optimisation initiatives, and value-for-money discussions.
- Deliver clear management reporting, dashboards, and KPIs to support data-driven decisions.
- Provide financial support to digital projects and portfolios, including ROI analysis and post-investment reviews.
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Essential experience and skills
- A Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or Business Management (desirable), alongside a professional accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent).
- Strong FP&A capability, including budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, scenario analysis, and advanced financial modelling.
- Proven experience analysing complex datasets and translating them into clear, actionable insights for both finance and non-finance audiences.
- Experience working with digital and technology cost drivers, including cloud, SaaS, infrastructure, vendor contracts, and digital portfolios.
- Advanced Excel expertise and strong capability with data and visualisation tools such as Power BI.
- Demonstrated ability to build robust investment and arguments with clear assumptions, risks, and benefits.
- Solid understanding of financial controls, risk management, accounting standards, and internal reporting requirements, with sound professional judgement balancing governance and commercial enablement.
- Strong communication and influencing skills, with the confidence to challenge constructively and present effectively to senior digital and business leaders.
- A collaborative, inclusive approach with proven ability to build trusted relationships across finance, digital, procurement, and external partners.
- Self-starter comfortable operating independently, leading cross-functional initiatives without formal authority, and performing effectively in fast-paced, global, and evolving environments.
- Experience of digital-led transformation or IT operating models is advantageous but not essential.
Why join us?
At bp, we provide an excellent working environment and employee benefits such as an open and inclusive culture, a great work-life balance, tremendous learning and development opportunities to craft your career path, life and health insurance, medical care package and many others. We support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and exciting environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity. We are committed to crafting an inclusive environment in which everyone is respected and treated fairly. 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, collaboration spaces in a modern office environment, and others benefits.


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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
Accounting policy, Accounting policy, Accounting Processes and Financial Systems, Agility core practices, Agility tools, Analytical Thinking, Business Acumen, Business process control, Business process improvement, Collaboration, Commercial Acumen, Communication, Creativity and Innovation, Credit Management, Customer centric thinking, Data Analysis, Data visualization and interpretation, Decision Making, Digital Fluency, Financial Reporting, Influencing, Internal control and compliance, Management Reporting, Managing change, Presenting {+ 4 more}
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We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of protected characteristics like race, religion, color, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, veteran status or disability status. Individuals with an accessibility need may request an adjustment/accommodation related to bp’s recruiting process (e.g., accessing the job application, completing required assessments, participating in telephone screenings or interviews, etc.). If you would like to request an adjustment/accommodation related to the recruitment process, please contact us. If you are selected for a position and depending upon your role, your employment may be contingent upon adherence to local policy. This may include pre-placement drug screening, medical review of physical fitness for the role, and background checks.
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