Graduate - Finance & Risk - UK
Bp
Accounting & Finance
London, UK
GBP 48k-48k / year + Equity
Posted on Oct 16, 2025
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Finance
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Graduate – Finance & Risk - UK
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 licence to innovate and the chance to grow in multiple directions. And you get supported, recognised and rewarded along the way.
Our Finance & Risk Graduate Programme
One Finance is our early careers programme designed to create a pipeline of diverse 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 programme will follow one of these tracks: Core Finance, Procurement and Finance & Risk.
Role and Responsibilities
The Finance & Risk programme supports our Trading & shipping business. You’ll follow a 3 year rotational programme that provides hands-on experience working in real roles, to deliver tangible benefits and measurable results.
Role rotations could include:
Operational Excellence
As part of the Operational Excellence team, you will help with managing, setting and promoting new and continuing improvement initiatives, compliant with Operational Risk processes across Trading & shipping.
Commodity Risk
Working in Commodity risk means you must understand, control and constructively challenge trading activity and positions on a near real-time basis within Trading & shipping to ensure it is compliant and aligned to intended trading strategy. Commodity Risk teams are present on each of our trading floors to analyse consistency of risks, results and positions. They provide independent and unbiased daily market exposure.
Credit Risk
bp Trading & shipping must have robust processes in place to monitor, understand and manage its credit risk. Credit risk includes counterparty performance risk, and delivered unpaid credit risk. Credit risk is the potential for financial loss due to the bankruptcy or insolvency of a third party, or due to any other circumstances which result in such third party refusing or otherwise failing to perform its contractual payment or performance obligations to bp.
Development opportunities
The rotational programme will provide you with an invaluable breadth of experience and first-hand exposure to how our functions support our trading activities.
Whilst on the programme, you can expect to develop a range of competencies and skills through on-the-job and formal training.
Requirements
Graduate: To apply for this role, you will need to be in your final year of study and be on track for a 2:1, or have completed your degree with a 2:1.
You are also expected to have strong spoken and written English language skills, including business and technical English. Language skills will be assessed throughout the recruitment process.
Please note: We value individuals who take initiative, are committed to excellence, and can adapt positively to change and challenges in a supportive environment.
Location(s)
This role will be based in Canary Wharf, London.
Please note: Location will depend on business needs and can change for each rotation on your Early Careers development program, as you move between roles. If you are required to relocate during the program, depending on distance, you may be offered relocation assistance.
Start Date
7th September 2026
Other Information
Please note the following when applying:
You can only apply to one bp early careers opportunity globally per academic year – within this time, we will only process the first application you make. You will be withdrawn from any subsequent applications.
Assessment Centres are a key part of the assessment process and will be in person – bp will cover reasonable travel and accommodation costs, in line with the travel policy which will be shared with you. Please ensure you will be available to attend in person.
Unless you apply to a role with a location explicitly stated, role locations are not guaranteed – where not stated, you will be placed in a location based on business need.
Accommodation – once confirmed, where you need or decide to move closer to your location, you are responsible for organising and funding this accommodation.
Hybrid working – please note, bp operates on a 60:40 hybrid working work policy (3 days in the office) for most office-based roles. This may vary for non-office-based roles.
Adjustments
We are keen to make our recruitment process accessible to all. If you require any adjustments/accommodations, to any stage of the recruitment process, please mention this in the allocated section on your initial application form. Someone will then be in touch to discuss or confirm the adjustments/accommodations as appropriate for you. Alternatively, if you would like to discuss adjustments before applying, please get in touch:
T: +44 1635 584149
Reward
Starting Salary: £48,000 per annum + discretionary, performance related, annual bonus.
Sign on Bonus: £5000 (one off payment subject to tax and national insurance)
Holiday Allowance: 28 days + flexible bank holidays (to take at a time that suits you) + two wellbeing / duvet days.
Wellbeing Allowance: Claim up to £1,500 each calendar year (subject to tax and national insurance) for products and services that contribute to physical, mental, financial and social wellbeing
Flexible Benefits: In addition to your base salary, you’ll receive a flexible allowance (currently 20% of your base salary) that you can take as cash or use to buy a range of extra benefits, such as a pension, critical illness, dental care, personal accident and travel insurance, and our cycle to work scheme.
Private Medical Insurance: We’ll pay for private healthcare, and you only pay an income tax charge.
BP Share Plans: You can choose to take part in our share plan and buy bp shares every month.
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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.
