What you will deliver
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- Business Partnering and Performance Insights : Prepare insightful financial management information to support business decisions, recommend and implement interventions where necessary. Prepare and present material for business performance discussions to include key messages, analysis and insights. Provide performance insights to business collaborators passionate about improving the profitability of the business.
- Economic Evaluation : Perform economic analysis to evaluate the financial viability of various projects or scenarios for the business. Provide insights to the business on economic drivers and sources of value.
- Continuous Improvement : Promote the use of new and / or standardized systems and continuously improve supply related MI systems and processes to increase automation and move towards increasing the self-service model.
- Cross-team integration : as a senior leader within FP&A, work with peers in remote locations across geographies in bp to earn trust, share context and establish ways of working. Work to develop a positive working culture that motivates staff to succeed and develop careers at bp.
- Standardization and Process Optimization : Drive continuous improvement to promote standardization and simplification. Implement strategies that drive the automation of financial products, to improve the efficiency of financial analysis and reporting.
- Leadership : Coach more junior team members, ensuring effective execution of the team s accountabilities. Embed new ways of working, driving cross-team collaboration.
- What you will need to be successful :
- Must have educational qualifications : Business / Finance or Engineering Subject area Degree level or equivalent
Preferred education / certifications :
Master s Degree or post-graduate qualification in a finance subject area e.g. MBA, CA, ICWA / Cost Accountants.Minimum years of relevant experience :15 years of relevant post degree experience in financial reporting, budgeting and forecasting in an Oil and Gas business or experience in industries such as Retail, Asset-based business, Manufacturing, or Logistics.Must have experiences / skills :
Extensive Performance Reporting experience gained in large scale organizations.Extensive experience of developing and communicating financial management information to business collaborators.Proven experience with delivery of business planning processesExperience in working with financial systems such as SAP, Microsoft products and visualization tools such as Power BI, Tableau.Ability to hold relationships with regulatory authorities.Ability to manage relationships with different collaborators at various levels in the organization.Mentoring team members to work towards a common goal.You will work with :
Describe the team, key collaborators, and any outstanding selling points of team cultureYou 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 create a center 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 senior leadership.In addition to the FP&A team, you will also be collaborating with the local finance team and various technical and leadership teams in onsite locations.Skills Required
Business Partnering, Process Improvement, Sap, Leadership