Performance Management : Prepare timely, accurate, and reliable financial and management information to support business decisions. Develop and explain material for business performance leadership team discussions, including key messages, analysis, and insights. Provide performance insights to business collaborators focused on improving profitability.
Business Partnering and Performance Insights : Build and maintain a proactive business relationship with relevant Business/Function Leadership teams. Support the Performance Management agenda, ensuring robust and timely forecasts and delivery of MI analysis and commentary. Monitor and support cost reduction initiatives and ensure effective tracking and accurate analysis of profitability.
Actuals Analysis : Analyze monthly/quarterly actuals, including trend analysis and explaining actuals vs. forecasts. Highlight areas where performance is behind or ahead of plan and suggest potential interventions.
Business Planning : Play a key role in developing the long-term plan and quarterly plan update process. Coordinate the plan for a part of the business, analyze plan data in SAP-based systems, and output in PowerBI/Tableau reports. Prepare presentation material, including commentary, and answer follow-up questions from leadership or central finance teams.
Joint Venture Management : Support the local finance team in developing plans and Authorization for Expenditure (AFEs) for joint venture partners approval.
Economic Evaluation : Perform economic analysis to evaluate the financial viability of various projects or scenarios. Develop insights into economic drivers and sources of value for the business.
Strategy & Planning : Support the annual planning process, ensuring plans are appropriately challenged and assured. Produce detailed cost forecasts, highlight areas where performance targets are not being met, and ensure data quality in submissions. Support ad-hoc and strategic business decisions, understanding the implications and balancing risk and reward.
Continuous Improvement : Identify and deliver continuous improvement opportunities in performance management products. Promote the use of standard systems and reports, and work towards standardizing and simplifying performance management processes.
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 other qualification in a finance field e.g. MBA, CA, ICWA/Cost Accountants
Minimum years of relevant experience : 12 years of relevant post degree experience in financial reporting, budgeting and forecasting
Preferred experience : Experience within global, sophisticated and matrix organizations, preferably within an Oil & Gas business or experience in industries such as Retail, Asset-based business, Manufacturing, or Logistics.
Must have experiences/skills :
Expert knowledge and application of Plan to Perform processes, including digital literacy and analysis.
Excellent analytical and insight capabilities, with a focus on continuous improvement in performance management and MI.
Phenomenal teammate with strong communication skills, capable of translating sophisticated requirements into simple outcomes
Ability to gain trust from finance and business senior collaborator
Efficiently deliver operational improvements, share standard methodologies, and drive performance
Outstanding experience in working with financial systems such as SAP, Microsoft products and visualization tools such as Power BI, Tableau
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 create 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 senior leadership.
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.