GBS

GBS defines, owns, sources and operates efficient and standardized business services for the BP Group.

We are business process professionals, working as a unified organization across finance, customer service, procurement, HR services, tax and other functional areas to fully support BP in its global operations and aims. Our license to operate is dependent on us being able to deliver silent running in the most efficient manner.

As the GBS organization continues to grow and accommodates more, it has the opportunity to deliver additional value in five core areas:

Risk and control: Enhancing BP's business and system controls through improved governance and implementation of global process designs, systems templates and control frameworks.

Process effectiveness: Increasing cash and working capital delivery; improved process effectiveness and reliability through delivering an accurate outcome first time.

Process efficiency: Driving commonality of global processes and building these into standard templates to be incorporated into our ERP systems implementations and our continuous improvement activities across operational processes.

Quality service: Delivering enhanced customer services to the businesses we serve and BPs customers, through our well-trained, professional people.

Capability: Developing future leaders for the organisation through talent management BP and career mapping and developing deep expertise in the domain of process.

Role Synopsis

Treasury Operations Senior Analyst is a direct contributor to Treasury Operation objectives, supporting main goals and KPIs of immediate team and wider organization by providing key analytics, reconciliations, and issue resolution on behalf of both Treasury Operation Team and bp Business Partners across the world.

This role will include cooperation with Group and local Treasury/Cash&Banking/Finance teams and is built on leading, supervising, and in some cases performing root cause analytics related to improvement areas within the Treasury Operation activities. What is more, this role plays a meaningful role in Treasury and cash & banking control activities across the world, building excellence for Group operation in bp liquidity and cash management. This role also contributes to collaborator and partner engagement as it pertains to bank operations and its associated scope, covering bank relations, cash forecasting and bank control activity in its wider form.

Treasury Operations Senior Analyst will be expected to deal with more sophisticated issues/queries and tackle a supervisory role as aligned and delegated by the line manager.

Key Accountabilities

• Bank account management:

  • Support the opening, closing & amending of bank accounts.

  • Support and advance any information in signature updates.

  • Process the POA (power of attorney) setups with the bank.

  • Support the Treasury Advisor with Bank guarantee administration when it’s needed.

  • Keep update accounts in BAM (bank account management) system.

• Security officer activities:

  • Support the management of the accesses on bank account of the business and operation users timely.

  • Keep updated and aligned with the senior for the user’s access controls on quarterly basis.

• Payment query resolution:

  • Be responsible for researching and resolving problems, share resolution within the Senior and the team.

  • Liaised with the bank to find the reasons of the rejections of payment queries.

  • Collaborate closely with the Senior and support the bank and treasury on any fund rejection.

• Perform CIT bank reconciliations and ensure all unreconciled items are addressed to responsible team and follow up until the problem is resolved.

• Prepared cash forecast, statement booking, GL clearing.

• Support preparation of documents and adjustments for monthly, quarterly, and year-end close.

• Knowledge of IT systems connections.

• Support the team of analysts in opening, closing & amending of bank accounts.

• Support and serve as customer concern point in bank signature updates.

• Support bank guarantee administration process completion across various functions.

• Be responsible for researching and resolving problems, sharing resolution within the team.

• Issue identification ownership and resolution drive with relevant cross-functional owners.

Essential Education:

• Relevant Finance or Economics Degree

Essential Experience and Job Requirements:

• Min. 3 years experience in the relevant field: Finance, Cash and Banking, Treasury, Financial accounting or another transferrable field.

• Strong business English and another language depended on the supported Region.

• Good analytical skills

• Good interpersonal, influential and decision-making skills in order to manage and maintain good relationships with key collaborators.

• Stakeholders-oriented thinking with proven case record.

• Ability to work with deadlines, under pressure with a track record of delivery.

• Able to deal with sophisticated situations while maintaining the right balance of customer and business focus.

• Able to consistently review and adapt approach to meet changing requirements.

• MS Office experience

Desirable criteria

• SAP knowledge is an advantage

• Ability to adapt to fast paced environment

• Multinational corporate experience is an advantage.