Early Careers at bp

Looking to turn your career dreams into global impact? Explore graduate opportunities with bp. Here you get to work on challenging projects, learn from experts and mentors, and be part of a high-performing team from the get-go. You get the freedom to think boldly, the license to innovate and the chance to grow in multiple directions. And you get supported, recognized and rewarded along the way.

Our Internships

Our summer internships are 10 weeks. You’ll be based in one team throughout your internship, working on real projects that you’ll be able to manage through to completion. Throughout you’ll have the support of a dedicated line manager and a buddy from one of our early careers programs. Alongside your day-to-day responsibilities, you’ll have the opportunity to attend events and socials with other interns, take part in training sessions to help develop your interpersonal skills and network with leaders from across bp. The program is designed to help build your skills and technical knowledge whilst also allowing you to learn more about life at bp.

Role and Responsibilities

Finance Summer Intern working in this group will work on activities involving Integrated Planning process; Budgeting and Forecasting, illuminating capital and cash cost performance relative to Plan and providing financial insight to the Technical Functions with focus on protecting, creating and maximizing value from existing commercial agreements. Depending on team assigned, the intern will participate in some of the activities of the Planning & Commercial Operations teams like assistance in development of the annual plans/latest estimate update; analysis of budgets and accruals calculation; familiarization with Production Sharing Agreement and support to partner reporting; get acquainted with commercial models and understanding the principles of economic evaluation and other general financial / commercial support. There will be opportunity to participate in internal budget review meetings with AGT VPs as well as attend partners’ budget workshops. Interns will make end of period presentations which will be evaluated by Supervisors/Team Leaders.

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