bp Hiring for Finance Strategy & Process Manager Job at Sunbury, England Full Time

Responsible for supporting the business with accounting issues, using advanced technical capabilities in controlling, performance reporting and integrated business planning, advising on policy and compliance, working with relevant teams across the business to effectively coordinate a range of finance activities and assisting in the delivery of the financial strategy to drive outstanding business results.

GBS Finance, Strategy & Process Excellence, Finance Process Architect

Global Business Services (GBS) is BP’s shared services organized and is organised in an operational model consisting of Finance, Customer, Procurement, Global Solutions and HR services with further scope to expand. The intent of this structure is to ensure a highly efficient operating model fully optimised with our partners, established ways of processes and decision making, as well as ensuring that transformation is delivered at pace, safely.

The GBS Finance, Strategy & Process Excellence, Finance Process Architect provides support to the entities Manager and Lead in exercising the accountabilities of the GPO replicating the GPO Policy and the process scope defined by BP’s Enterprise Activity Model.

The FPA will assist in the identification, planning and execution of business process management projects, collaborating with the embedded business units and service delivery teams, to ensure process consistency across all entities.

Key Accountabilities:

• Define process standards for owned R2R processes in line with the Global Process Design Standards framework
• Drive the adoption of standardisation of end-to-end R2R processes, working closely with delivery centres and embedded teams. In doing do so, govern any variation to process standards and ongoing compliance.
• Recommend process improvement and system changes to augment process standardisation, drive simplification, improve control and enable transparency of performance.
• Conduct impact assessment on legislative changes identified by operational entities which impact existing Global Process Design changes and develop plan to update all impacted standards ahead of the effective date of the change
• Establish the agenda for and facilitate R2R Process Advisory Groups and GBS R2R Service Delivery Network sessions with R2R Operational leads and Business Optimisation teams.
• Support the broader network of R2R process specialists and practitioners to ensure effective engagement and to aid in the efficiency of governance forums. Foster learning and sharing of standard methodologies, ensuring alignment with the end-to-end process objectives.
• Support the regular review of activities performed by delivery centres and embedded teams to ensure compliance to sourcing strategy
• Identify internal and independent process benchmarks and best-practices, including potential tactical automation solutions that could drive efficiencies.
• Identify requirements for global process performance dashboards that provide transparency to process performance and total cost to serve for agreed R2R processes and agree approach for development.

Critical Experience and Education:

• Proven know-how in process analysis, design and operation
• Practical experience of data gathering, compilation and analysis
• Participation in process transformation initiatives
• In-depth knowledge of R2R processes including key roles, controls and Key Performance Indicators
• Developing business requirements for complex processes
• Knowledge of project and organisational change methodologies
• Ability to engage varying levels within the organisation, internal and external
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Strong influencing skills
• Personal time management skills

Desirable:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in related area.
• Training and certification in project management
• Record to Report operational experience / qualified accountant.
• Proven experience with writing proposals, business cases and Finance Memorandum.
• Knowledge of SAP financial modules / functionality and reporting tools
• Oil sector experience

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

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Finance

Finance Group

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Yes – up to 25%

Full time

United Kingdom

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.‎

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