Entity:

Finance

Job Family Group:

Supply & Trading Group

Job Description:

About bp

At bp, our people are our most valuable asset. The People, Culture & Communications (PC&C) function fosters a diverse, inclusive culture where everybody can thrive. As part of an integrated energy company, PC&C is embarking on a major transformation to be more competitive, responsive, and customer-focused.

We’re investing in key locations such as India, Hungary, Malaysia, and Brazil, offering an exciting but challenging opportunity to shape a fast-moving PC&C function, building teams and structures and driving continuous improvement.

We’re looking for driven, ambitious enthusiasts who thrive in fast-paced environments and are passionate about people. If you're ready to build something transformative, this is the place for you.

GBS Enabling Solutions owns, designs, governs, deploys and supports global template products critical to bp's success, such as SAP global financial template, Finance Business Warehouse, SAP Ariba and Salesforce.

As Solution Specialist (for Group Reporting) you will use your business and accounting knowledge to govern the solution design and financial valuations of bp's legacy Finance Business Warehouse (FBW) system as well as coordinating the specification of the core configuration settings for establishing new entities in SAP and bp's Finance Business Warehouse System. In addition you'll work closely with project deployment teams to ensure the successful validation of financial data in FBW for entities migrated to our core ERP systems and work with technical teams to ensure the successful load and transformation of financial data coming from other ERP system

You'll also chip in your knowledge and experience of group reporting and consolidation towards new solution build for group reporting using S/4 HANA - Central Finance as part of bp's ERP Transformation Project.

Key Accountabilities

• Be the authority on template solutions within the functional area and participate in develop authorities.
• For approved demand, understand business requirements and sophisticated business processes and scenarios and translate / break these down into a simplified set of requirements for which solutions can be investigated.
• Build global standard solutions to meet business needs.
• Explain concepts and solutions to technical and non-technical partners.
• Prepare, review and/or approve functional specifications for solution design.
• Own the preparation, structure, and delivery of presentation materials for template familiarisation, template fit-gap, solution design, user training and team knowledge sharing.
• Lead template fit gap and user training sessions.
• Guide and constructive feedback to peer’s design work.
• Identify, analyse, and delineate problems.
• Investigate and resolve solution incidents and conduct root cause analysis.
• Provide expertise for designs that cross functional areas in order to achieve end to end solutions that meet our customers' needs.
• Advise others on integration considerations for interfaces coming from external systems.
• Review and signoff cross-system cutover plans and integration testing scenarios.
• For new designs or changes to design, provide testing scenarios to ensure the solution is robust.
• Understand, adopt, and accept agile principles and agile ways of working.
• Where agreed, act as Solution Integration Lead for specific projects, providing support to the project teams and their interaction and solution needs with the rest of the solutions team.

Education & Skills:

• Suitably qualified professional with degree or similar education background.
• Accountancy qualification (e.g. CIMA, CPA, ACA, ACCA)
• Strong presentation and interpersonal skills, including the ability to articulate sophisticated processes and influence a wide range of collaborators.
• Passion and experience in assembling business requirements and improving processes and systems.
• General understanding of systems deployment activities.
• Ability to work and collaborate within a virtual distributed team environment.
• Ability to prioritize optimally for yourself and the team.
• 2+ years of experience of system design
• Ability to learn and be the authority on template solutions.
• Ability to formulate and tackle problems.
• Ability to build positive relationships with business partners, technical teams and delivery teams

Essential Experience and Job Requirements:

• Deep knowledge and significant experience with Group reporting processes and functionality
• Deep knowledge of IFRS Accounting Standards
• Knowledge of financial data migration and financial reconciliations
• Knowledge of Consolidation data upload, input, reporting and controls
• Proficiency in excel tool to build data schemas & validations.
• Knowledge of data integration tools, such as Informatica, GRDC.
• Significant experience with SAP, cFIN, BW, Hyperian etc including a general solid understanding of transactional processes in an SAP environment.

• 9+ years of relevant work experience with systems and process design.

• Experience working in a multi-national organisation.

• Experience of Agile ways of working

Why bp?

At bp, we support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and challenging environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity. We are committed to crafting an inclusive environment in which everyone is respected and treated fairly. Diversity Statement: At bp, we provide an excellent environment and benefits such as an open and inclusive culture, a great work-life balance, tremendous learning and development opportunities to craft your career path, life and health insurance, medical care package and many others!

Diversity sits at the heart of our company and as an equal opportunity employer, we stay true to our mission by ensuring that our place can be anyone's place. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender and gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application and interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.

Travel Requirement

Up to 10% travel should be 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:

Agreements and negotiations, Analytical Thinking, Commercial Acumen, Commercial Business Development, Consultative selling skills, Continued Learning, Customer promise execution, Customer service delivery excellence, Deal modelling and valuation, Developing and implementing strategy, Influencing, Internal alignment, Joint Venture Structuring, Listening, Loyalty Management, Marketing strategy and programmes, Negotiating value, Negotiation planning and preparation, Partner relationship management, Presenting, Thought Leadership, Trade discipline and compliance, Trading Fundamentals, Sentiment and Trends, Trading knowledge, Writing skills

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.