Entity:

Finance

Job Family Group:

Finance Group

Job Description:

bp purpose is to deliver energy to the world, today and tomorrow.

The post holder will be responsible for all planning & performance insight, forecasting and reporting activities for Automotive and Industrial businesses in Mexico and will ensure timely and accurate provision of Management Information & Decision Support activities. Ensure financial implications are integrated into strategic plans. This includes development of the Plan, Group Financial Outlook (GFO) and integration of LBM to ensure a robust rolling forecast. Analyze actual performance compared to previous forecasts and plan, identify and propose operational performance interventions and support their implementation and delivery. Build and maintain a proactive business partnering relationship between Finance and the Mexico Caribbean and Central America (MCCA) Sales Director, the Americas Performance and GSC team. Directly collaborate with the leadership team, and, through insightful analysis, provide commercial support and market intelligence to that team.

Job Summary

Strategy and Planning
• Accountable for leading and delivering the Mexico annual Plan process, implementing the process with support from Sales, Marketing, GSC and the Functions to ensure complete alignment.
• Responsible for the validity, accuracy and performance insights (multiple lenses, i.e. brands, channels, geography, strategic accounts, etc.) and providing assurance to the MCCA Finance Manager and the Americas Performance & GSC Finance Manager.
• Drives strategy refresh activity through translation of financials. Provide focus on strategy kpi’s and provide options for intervention when needed
• Accountable for the Rolling Forecasts (RFs) based on, and integrated with, the LBM forecast to support the Mexico GFO submission, covering volume, revenue, cost, margin, RCOP and Cash.
• Support all cash and working capital initiatives.
• The role will draw on specific performance insights and associated analysis (Vulnerabilities & Opportunities) ensuring that the forecast have integrity and have been subject to sufficient level of challenge and subsequently fully reflect business objectives and risks

Business Partnering and Performance Insights
• Facilitates conversations between relevant stakeholders to ensure underlying performance is well understood and to proactively challenge and propose performance improvements and interventions.
• Tracks and explains changes in cash flow, and related elements of the balance sheet to highlight performance issues, proposing and supporting interventions.
• Supports MCCA Finance Manager to improve cash drivers and deliver cash targets and sustainable WC release.
• Supports regular forward-looking analysis and insight gathering and participates in ad-hoc projects to deliver interventions with the Country Sales and or Regional team.
• Lead role in LBM to ensure PMR or equivalent experience, Demand and Supply actions are integrated through the country to deliver a robust financial outlook and resulting V&O’s to handle in year performance and longer-term planning against any gaps to strategy delivery.

Performance Reporting
• Translates financial and operational performance to the business and the MCCA Finance. Manager and evaluates and articulates the underlying delivery of actuals vs. latest forecasts on a monthly basis to incorporate into the plan and current outlook for the year.
• Supports actions to handle performance e.g. trend analysis and seeks continuous improvement in performance management and MI to promote standardization and simplification through a systematic approach.
• Measures and uses business insight to provide commentary on forecast variances to facilitate decision making and ensure forecasts remain accurate and robust.
• Implement MI performance activity in country and to the Region ensuring actuals have been reported in an accurate and timely manner, have been fully analyzed and understood and insights are shared with the Finance Manager and Regional Finance team.

Leadership
• Coach colleagues, ensuring effective execution of the team’s accountabilities with focus on continuous improvement.
• Supports the Performance teams helping to build Planning & Performance capability in the country team and developing talent and competencies.
• Drives and contributes to the Performance Management agenda in Mexico to share takeaways and solutions across the Region.

Qualifications
Degree in Business Administration, Finance or Economics (required)
Master degree is a plus

5+ years of prior experience in a relevant role
English – Fluent (required)

To be successful in the position, you must:
• Have a working knowledge of the lubricants' business.
• Have sound performance management, financial planning and management reporting knowledge. Knowledge of BP reporting requirements and financial policy is critical.
• Have some experience with investment appraisals and use of GIAAP.
• Have sound understanding of strategic and business fundamentals and drivers.
• Be self-sufficient and pro-active, able to work with no supervision on long-term tasks.
• Can handle conflicting priorities.
• Have high energy levels and be have the capacity to overcome peak workloads in short-timescale projects.
• Be proficient on Excel and PowerPoint. Additionally experience with JDE software is desirable, but not a pre-requisite.
• Have excellent analytical and organizational skills.
• Be a creative problem solver.
• Have well developed facilitation and influencing skills, and ability to make a high personal impact.
• Have the ability to communicate/network effectively (oral, written and presentation), and to build relationships at all levels within the organization.
• Be a strong teammate with potential leadership skills.
• Strong project management skills.

Key challenges faced on the role
• Ensuring adherence to the financial standardization agenda within Mexico.
• Support the MCCA Finance Manager in managing the right balance for the business between
commercial growth objectives and a strong control, compliance & risk management environment
• Manage the balance between near- and long-term objectives.
• Managing information from multiple systems.
• Balancing demands from Country and Region and diverse partners.

Work location & Shift pattern

Santa Fe offices - 8:00am to 5:00pm

Hybrid, 2 days remote and 3 days in the office (Tu/We/Th)

Why join us

At bp, we support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and ambitious environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity. We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment in which everyone is respected and treated fairly.

There are many aspects of our employees’ lives that are meaningful, so we offer benefits ( https://exploreyourbenefits.com/landing.html) to enable your work to fit with your life. These benefits can include flexible working options, a generous paid parental leave policy, and excellent retirement benefits, among others!

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Travel Requirement

No travel is expected with this role

Relocation Assistance:

This role is not eligible for relocation

Remote Type:

This position is a hybrid of office/remote working

Skills:

Accounting policy, Accounting policy, Accounting Processes and Financial Systems, Agility core practices, Agility tools, Analytical Thinking, Business Acumen, Business process control, Business process improvement, Collaboration, Commercial Acumen, Communication, Creativity and Innovation, Credit Management, Customer centric thinking, Data Analysis, Data visualization and interpretation, Decision Making, Digital Fluency, Financial Reporting, Influencing, Internal control and compliance, Management Reporting, Managing change, Presenting {+ 4 more}

Legal Disclaimer:

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