Senior Finance Analyst, M&C UK, Convenience
Entity:
Finance
Job Family Group:
Finance Group
Job Description:
Our purpose is to deliver energy to the world, today and tomorrow. For over 100 years, bp has focused on discovering, developing, and producing oil and gas in the nations where we operate. We are one of the few companies globally that can provide governments and customers with an integrated energy offering. Delivering our strategy sustainably is fundamental to achieving our ambition to be a net zero company by 2050 or sooner!
Job Synopsis
The Senior Finance Analyst is part of a team of finance specialists. The role will support delivery of key finance priorities within the Mobility & Convenience (M&C) UK business to enable it to meet its strategic and commercial objectives.
The holder supports the delivery of the business strategy and financial roadmap, including the assessment of risk. They hold the business to account for the impact that strategic and operational activities will have on financial outcomes and is accountable for intervening when delivery risk emerges.
The role provides finance expertise into business decision-making to build and protect sustainable value for bp through delivering a strong financial and control framework, whilst driving financial performance. Specifically, this means collaborating across businesses and supporting functions to develop, grow and protect the convenience value chain. To this aim the role is expected to:
* Maintain the relationships and information requirements with key partners in the trading and food teams and the Finance Business & Technology (FBT) to ensure accuracy, consistency and insight rich outputs are provided. This includes working with external relationships with partners such as M&S and other key counterparties to ensure bp's contractual rights and obligations are met.
* Undertake pro-active reviews of opportunities and risks as identified through routine or specific reporting.
* Support projects throughout their delivery to ensure accurate financial information and assumptions used and that the project delivers against financial targets.
Key Roles & Responsibilities:
1. Commercial - Trusted advisor for the UK Trading Director in support of business delivery (commercial, accounting, investment), providing finance expertise into business decision-making across strategic and operational imperatives.
2. Performance - supports the drive of business performance in both economic and strategic terms. This includes supporting interventions where needed to ensure strategic objectives and financial outcomes are met through insights and hypothesis derived from data analysis.
3. Control and Risk Management - working with the Accounting Reporting & Control (ARC), trading team and Global Business Services (GBS)/FBT teams to ensure the maintenance of a robust control environment and support the identification and resolution of gaps.
4. Simplification - Support process transformation of our business by eliminating interfaces and repetitions where possible, simplifying activities, embracing digital automation, and using new digital skills to enable faster, more focused decision making.
5. People Development - working with the FBT / GBS and other key collaborators to ensure the correct level of skills and capability are in place to ensure business needs can be met sustainably.
Job Functional Knowledge:
* A positive role model for business integrity, values, and behaviors.
* Strong business /commercial competence and understanding of retail businesses to anticipate issues and see the "big picture" including creation of solutions in support of financial objectives from leading practice experience.
* Ability to work efficiently and influence across a wide range of partners both within the UK business and across the global FBT / GBS teams.
* Strong financial skills and process expertise across control, planning & performance and commercial activities to provide oversight and ensure silent running of activities and reporting.
* Influence and drive process change across the business to support the continuous improvement environment ensuring consensus from key collaborators.
* Strong analytical skills with experience in developing and running sophisticated SAP queries, Power BI reports and Excel spreadsheets (including bridging / comparative analysis).
* Ability to build insights from data analysis and challenge the status quo.
* A strong self-starter who is able to handle complexity and ambiguity across multiple data sets.
Business Expertise:
Knowledgeable expertise within the food retail / convenience industry as a commercial retail finance analyst to enable understanding of requirements and support trading meetings / interventions. This includes an understanding of the key business drivers and emerging external landscape.
Minimum/Preferred Job Requirements and Qualifications
Minimum Education:
Degree or equivalent experience in Business and/or Finance
Minimum Experience:
Minimum 4 years of experience in a commercial finance role, with responsibilities which included planning and performance management within a retail business, leading financial delivery of a business and delivering change projects across the organization
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, Agility core practices, Analytical Thinking, Business process control, Business process improvement, Commercial Acumen, Communication, Creativity and Innovation, Credit Management, Customer centric thinking, Data Analysis, Data visualization and interpretation, Decision Making, Digital fluency, Financial Reporting, Group Problem Solving, Influencing, Internal control and compliance, Management Reporting, Managing change, Presenting, Risk Management, Stakeholder Management #J-18808-Ljbffr