Entity:

Finance

Job Family Group:

Finance Group

Job Description:

About bp

As a leading global energy company with a presence in over 61 countries, bp is dedicated to delivering energy to the world, today and tomorrow. Across the bp landscape, we’re home to a range of brands across many areas of our industry.

For over 100 years, we’ve focused on discovering, developing and producing oil and gas in the nations where we operate. Delivering our strategy sustainably is fundamental to achieving our ambition to be a net zero company by 2050 or sooner.

It's an exciting time to join bp. From wellbeing programs to mentorship and career growth opportunities, we aim to ensure you can thrive – in work and in life.

About the One Finance Program

One Finance

One Finance is our early careers program designed to create a pipeline of finance professionals who have potential to progress, have broad discipline experience, a transferable skills-set, and are ready to deliver the finance vision. Early careers will build their experience through challenging development assignments, grow a toolkit of transferable skills for the future, and have a dedicated network of support to help them succeed. Early careers joining One Finance program will follow one of these tracks: Core Finance, Procurement and Finance & Risk

This is a three-year program comprised of three 12-month rotations.

About the role

In Supply, Trading & Shipping at bp, our purpose is to bring together people, energy and markets to power and navigate a changing world. In a time of constant change and possibility we need new talent to pursue commercial opportunities, fueled by world-class insight and expertise. We’re always striving for more innovative digital solutions, sustainable outcomes and closer collaboration across our company and beyond, and you could be part of that too. Together we continue to grow as the world’s leading energy trader.

As a Finance and Risk Analyst, you will have immediate access to the various trading support roles, from Finance, Risk and Compliance. You will work side by side with some of the best energy trading support professionals in the energy industry. You’ll receive first-hand exposure to how our functional businesses support our supply and trading activities and will contribute to building your long-term career in the organization.

In this role, you will be a part of bp's One Finance program. As a part of this program, you'll be able to build your experience through challenging development assignments, grow a toolkit of transferable skills for the future, and have a dedicated network of support to help you succeed.

You can expect to undertake role rotations within the following business areas:

Commodity Risk: Commodity Risk is a key control function, accountable for ensuring that trading activities are conducted within a robust control framework. All first-year rotations take place in Commodity Risk across 1 of our 4 commodity benches.

Commercial Development: The CD Team manages the successful business implementation of pan-functional change initiatives across all relevant activities within the geography.

Credit Risk: Credit Risk addresses the possibility that BP could experience a financial loss if a trading counterparty files bankruptcy or otherwise fails to perform on its contractual obligations to BP.

Market Risk: Market Risk is the potential for financial loss due to changing market prices. For BP, the primary market risk is unmitigated change in the price of commodities that BP buys and sells.

Transformation/Operational Excellence: Transformation and Operational excellence work across the trading floor to improve processes and push continuous improvement.

ST&S Accounting, Reporting & Control (ARC): The ARC team is responsible for ensuring the accuracy and integrity of ST&S financial results.

There may also be an opportunity to spend time learning about our Gas and Power businesses in Houston

Benefits

• One-time sign on bonus
• Annual cash bonus
• Retirement benefits (401K and Pension)
• Relocation and moving assistance
• Health and welfare benefits
• Competitive base salary
• This role pays $75,000.00, based on the minimum requirement of a Bachelor’s degree
• Please note the pay range listed for this position is a good faith and reasonable estimate of the base pay for this position at the time of posting. You may learn more about our generous benefits here Explore Our Benefits.

Minimum Requirements

• Working toward Bachelor’s degree
• Graduating between December 2025 and May 2026
• Current Cumulative GPA Minimum 3.0
• Eligible to work in the U.S. with no restrictions (bp will not support U.S. Immigration sponsorship for full-time or long-term employment)
• Must be available to start on agreed upon global program start dates (January 20, 2026 or June 22, 2026).
• Geographically mobile and willing to relocate to Chicago, IL

Preferred Requirements

• Demonstrated interest in the commodities markets.
• Working knowledge of excel, Power BI, PowerPoint
• Strong communication skills
• High degree of curiosity
• Basic understanding of financial controls and risk management

Legal Disclaimer

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of protected characteristics like race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status or disability status. Individuals with an accessibility need may request an adjustment/accommodation related to bp’s recruiting process (e.g., accessing the job application, completing required assessments, participating in telephone screenings or interviews, etc.). If you would like to request an adjustment/accommodation related to the recruitment process, please contact us. If you are selected for a position and depending upon your role, your employment may be contingent upon adherence to local policy. This may include pre-placement drug screening, medical review of physical fitness for the role, and background checks.

Travel Requirement

No travel is expected with this role

Relocation Assistance:

This role is eligible for relocation within country

Remote Type:

This position is a hybrid of office/remote working

Skills:

Accounting policy, Accounting policy, Agility core practices, Agility tools, 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 {+ 2 more}

Legal Disclaimer:

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, socioeconomic status, neurodiversity/neurocognitive functioning, veteran status or disability status. Individuals with an accessibility need may request an adjustment/accommodation related to bp’s recruiting process (e.g., accessing the job application, completing required assessments, participating in telephone screenings or interviews, etc.). If you would like to request an adjustment/accommodation related to the recruitment process, please contact us.

If you are selected for a position and depending upon your role, your employment may be contingent upon adherence to local policy. This may include pre-placement drug screening, medical review of physical fitness for the role, and background checks.