What you will deliver Business Partnering and Performance Insights :
- Build and maintain a proactive business partnering relationship with the relevant Business / Function Leadership team. Ensure underlying performance is well understood. Proactively challenge and propose performance improvements. Supervise and investigate anomalies and trends.
- Support the Performance Management agenda for the entities in scope : Ensure robust and timely forecasts. Deliver MI analysis and commentary for the leadership team.
- Supervise and support cost reduction initiatives : Ensure effective tracking and accurate analysis of profitability. Analyze and interpret actuals. Support reporting and cost allocation processes.
Business Planning :
Work with collaborators to produce detailed cost forecasts by activity for the business planning process. Develop insights and highlight areas where performance targets are not being met.
Submit plan / forecast data into relevant cost management systems : Ensure data quality in the submissions.
Support ad-hoc and strategic business decisions : model the impact of various business scenarios. Present results and insights to leadership.
Performance Reporting : Responsible for the cost performance reporting activities of the respective business.
Provide timely, accurate, and reliable financial and management information.
Explain the underlying delivery of actuals vs. forecasts on a monthly / quarterly basis : Update in-year outlook.
Provide input for the cost allocation / recharge process for the entities. Explain cost allocations to collaborators as needed.
Support the drive for continuous improvement in MI : Ensure integrity and accuracy to meet business requirements.
Continuous Improvement : Continuously improve cost related systems and processes to increase automation and move towards growing the self-service model.
What you will need to be successful : Must have educational qualifications : Finance or Engineering Field Degree level or equivalent Preferred education / certifications : Master s Degree or other qualification in a finance field e.g. MBA, CA, ICWA / Cost Accountants Minimum years of relevant experience : 10 years of relevant post degree experience in financial reporting, budgeting and forecasting Preferred experience : Experience within global, sophisticated and matrix organizations in financial reporting, budgeting and forecasting, preferably in oil & gas or retail related based businesses.Must have experiences / skills (To be hired with) : Knowledge and application of Plan to Perform processes, including digital literacy and analysis.improvement in performance management and MI to promote standardization and simplification.Expert in working with financial systems such as SAP, Microsoft products and visualization tools such as Power BI.Ability to gain trust from finance and business senior collaborators.You will work with You will be working with a team of finance professionals as part of the Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) organization. The FP&A organization is an exciting new team being established by bp to build a centre of expertise in the areas of business planning, budgeting and forecasting, financial analysis and economic evaluation.The role will regularly interact and be the main contact point for Business / Functions leadership team.In addition to the FP&A team, you will also be partnering with the local finance team and various technical and leadership teams in onsite locations.Skills Required
Business Partnering, Forecasting, Performance Management, Sap, Power Bi