bp Hiring for Finance Analyst (m/f/d) Job at London, England Full Time

At bp, we have only one thing on our minds: the energy of tomorrow. We want to reimagine energy so that we are climate neutral by 2050 at the latest. And so that the world can be as well. To achieve this, we are rethinking energy and relying on the expertise and passion of our 70,000 employees worldwide, 4,600 of them in Germany. Every day, with the products and services of our bp, Aral and Castrol brands, they ensure energy and mobility for millions of people – today and in the future.

The Finance Analyst supports the Finance Manager with the Planning, Performance insight and Reporting of the BioFuels Growth business to support the optimisation of business performance. The Finance Analyst applies a Finance lens and deep understanding of business issues and priorities to form a consolidated view of business performance. The Finance Analyst develops and maintains strong relationships with the wider SPU businesses, Finance and GBS teams whilst also bearing specific responsibilities for particular business areas in some cases. He/she supports the Finance Manager in extracting the key performance insights and prepares the entity level reporting of Business and Financial Performance to the Biofuels Growth team as well as the Segment. The role acts as the primary partner for all Biofuels Growth activities

Planning

• Supports and consolidates the annual planning process, ensuring plans are appropriately challenged and provides assurance to the Finance Manager and Functional Leads.
• Proactively provides insight to Leadership Team or Function equivalent that is integrated across SPU highlighting opportunities or risks to achieve the business strategy.

Performance Insights

• Partners with other business stakeholders to analyse financial performance and articulate the underlying delivery of actuals vs. latest forecasts on a monthly basis and provide recommendations and interventions to drive improved performance. This may be on a consolidated basis for several regions to provide one set of numbers or with a focus on supporting a specific business region or area
• Shares detailed analysis and insights, using KPIs and trends, with the business on appropriate business drivers to concentrate on to achieve business objectives, including timely input to support the business understand interventions required to support future prioritisation and planning.

Performance Reporting

• Engages with key stakeholders and assist in the preparation of financial reports, including month-end and quarter-end close for the business activities, forecasts, analysis and budgets to provide insights for the business providing relevant challenge and verification.
• Bridges the gap between financial reporting and business understanding by measuring and providing commentary on forecast variances to facilitate decision-making and ensure forecasts remain accurate and robust.

Business partnering

• Develops relationships with the wider Finance team and Business Leads to identify and enable simplification opportunities within the extended business.
• Maintains strong relationships within the Finance teams, e.g. Planning & Performance and Accounting & Reporting, and the wider business e.g. Commercial, Marketing etc.

Our requirements:

• University degree or equivalent in finance or business-related discipline
• Knowledge of financial accounting according to IFRS
• Understanding of performance management processes, tools and metrics as well as of financial controls and processes
• Excellent SAP Technical & MI Reporting Skills
• Excellent understanding of system controls, financial controls and risk assessment including
• Understanding of how Finance processes and systems operate, including key internal interfaces and with third party providers
• Understanding of system controls, financial controls and risk assessment including an understanding of how Finance processes and systems operate and key internal interfaces
• Fluent in English and German (verbal and written)

What we offer:

• bp stands for agile working in a digitalised, team-oriented and international working environment
• Flexible and mobile working as well as 30 days of annual leave
• Attractive compensation package (company pension scheme, bonus and share programme, Aral fuel card, group accident insurance, various special benefits)
• International career and development opportunities as well as extensive internal and external training opportunities
• Structured onboarding programme and buddy support
• Subsidised canteen as well as hot drinks and water for free
• Commitment to society: bp doubles the donations made privately by employees to charitable organisations and rewards voluntary time commitment
• Employees can offset their personal carbon footprint; bp doubles this amount
• Programmes to improve the work-life balance

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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.‎