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140861BR
Job title:
Finance Analyst
Req ID:
140861BR
Relocation available:
No
Travel required:
Negligible travel
About BP:
FINANCE
Join us in a crucial time of transition. We are bringing all of our finance and procurement activities for the group into one place, enabling better work.
For you this means working with us on:
Compliance – efficiently delivering external reporting requirements to ensure we continue to meet our regulatory ?obligations in all jurisdictions, supported by robust control environment across all three lines of ?defence.?
Stewardship – laying out a robust finance framework and providing ongoing management of the balance sheet and ?portfolio execution, supported by effective advocacy to the market.?
Performance – facilitating the effective allocation of capital, development of business plans and coordination of ?business performance interventions to ensure a consistent delivery between strategic aspirations, ?operational forecasts and delivered outcomes. Furthermore, you will be responsible for value creation through mergers and acquisition-led ?deals, commercial negotiations and integration of business opportunities.?
Transformation – driving digital transformation (centralising, digitising, optimising) across all elements of the finance entity to ?achieve sector-leading cost-performance.?
Job Family Group:
Finance Group
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Job Profile Summary:
Entity information
Join us in a crucial time of transition. We are bringing all of our finance and procurement activities for the group into one place, enabling better work.
For you this means working with us on:
Compliance – efficiently delivering external reporting requirements to ensure we continue to meet our regulatory ?obligations in all jurisdictions, supported by robust control environment across all three lines of ?defence.?
Stewardship – laying out a robust finance framework and providing ongoing management of the balance sheet and ?portfolio execution, supported by effective advocacy to the market.?
Performance – facilitating the effective allocation of capital, development of business plans and coordination of ?business performance interventions to ensure a consistent delivery between strategic aspirations, ?operational forecasts and delivered outcomes. Furthermore, you will be responsible for value creation through mergers and acquisition-led ?deals, commercial negotiations and integration of business opportunities.?
Transformation – driving digital transformation (centralising, digitising, optimising) across all elements of the finance entity to ?achieve sector-leading cost-performance.
Role synopsis
We have a fantastic opportunity for a Finance Analyst to drive performance as well as challenge the status-quo to transform and expand our integrated Fuels Supply & Midstream (FS&M) business!
Fuel supply and midstream serves our ground fuels and specialty product customers while optimizing the value chain and ensuring quality from crude to customer delivery. We drive performance by maximizing the integrated fuel value chain P&L, and acting as its custodian, through supply optimization, channel of trade management and fuels pricing, enabled through data and an agile org structure.
We drive the commercial optimization of bp’s seven operated refineries, while simultaneously serving an extensive portfolio of B2B customers and supply counterparties. FSM enables supply and demand optimization through close collaboration with Trading & Shipping (T&S). In addition, we own and deliver carbon intensity reduction efforts within Midstream in line with bp’s ambitions.
The Finance Analyst is a member of the FS&M PPM Team, responsible for the reporting, forecasting, and overall financial delivery of the East Gulf Coast region’s B2B and Supply business. This position will work closely with the finance team and the business to ensure that projects are progressing as expected, financialize businesses opportunities, and support decision making in conjunction with the business teams.
Time Type:
Full time
Country:
United States of America
Location:
United States – Illinois – Chicago
Job Advert:
Key accountabilities
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Be the lead finance contact for Integrated Gross Margin within the East Gulf Coast footprint for Finance PPM.
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Enable the integration of margin and cost reporting into a single process that supports timely commercial decision making
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Understand, assure, and report the monthly performance of the EGC Midstream footprint including deal impacts, cash costs, and exchange performance contributing to the total margin reported
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Support the CBM lead with the Finance PPM components of FS&M Road map / Strategy / LTP activity and it ensure accurately represents actual delivery and realistic expectations of future performance
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Define key financial metrics for delivery of FS&M components of BP’s 2030 targets and enable their automated collection and tracking.
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Identify where systems (lack of, heritage etc.) are blockers to good financial data to support commercial decision making and project manage interventions and solutions.
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Support BPR process from a Finance perspective including building the finance perspective, integration with the business on the overall messages and story.
Essential education
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A Bachelor’s degree or higher is required – preferably in Finance or Accounting
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CPA, MBA or Chartered Accountant, preferred
Essential experience and job requirements
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8+ years of relevant finance and accounting experience
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Experience in midstream / B2B business, preferred.
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Extensive experience with financial reporting and analysis.
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Experience managing and balancing multiple customer groups
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Excellent Excel, Powerpoint
Desireable criteria
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Strong communication and organizational skills
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Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
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Ability to create insights from data analysis and challenge the status quo
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Continuous Improvement Mentality
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Knowledge of PowerBI, SAP
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.
Experience Level:
Intermediate
Entity:
Finance