Entity:

Finance

Job Family Group:

Business Support Group

Job Description:

We are a global energy business involved in every aspect of the energy system. We are working towards delivering light, heat and mobility to millions of people, every day. Our people want to play their part in solving the big, sophisticated challenges facing our world today and, guided by our bp values, are working to help meet the world’s need for more energy while lowering carbon emissions. In our offices at Pune, we work in customer service, finance, accounting, procurement, HR services and other enabling functions – providing solutions as an integrated part of bp.

Would you like to discover how our diverse, hardworking people are owning the way in making energy cleaner and better – and how you can play your part in our outstanding team?

Join our team, and develop your career in an encouraging, forward-thinking environment!

FBT 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 (bp's system for group reporting), SAP Ariba and Salesforce.

As Solution Manager (for General Ledger) you will use your business and procurement knowledge to design and govern the solution design of bp's template solutions for procurement as well as advising on the systems requirements relating to procurement templates. In addition, you'll work closely with project deployment teams to ensure the successful implementation of bp's Global Financial template solution for general ledger across the globe.

As design leads for the templates, you will ensure that solutions proposed by yourself and your team are aligned to our template principles and that this drive standardization of processes and designs across
the bp group.

The Solution Manager reports to the Solution & Portfolio Senior Manager

What you will deliver

• Be the authority on template solutions within the functional area and participate in design authorities.
• For approved demand, understand business requirements and complex business processes and scenarios and translate / break these down into a simplified set of requirements for which solutions can be investigated.
• Design global standard solutions to meet business needs.
• Explain concepts and solutions to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Prepare, review and/or approve functional specifications for solution design.
• Lead the preparation, structure, and delivery of presentation materials for template familiarization, template fit-gap, solution design, user training and team knowledge sharing.
• Lead template fit gap and user training sessions.
• Provide expertise and constructive feedback to peer’s design work.
  Identify, analyze, 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 embrace 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.
• Work with individuals to set performance goals in focus@bp and regularly check-in on goal progress.
• Schedule regular 1:1 catch-ups with team members and provide support and coaching when needed.
• Discuss career aspirations with team members and ensure everyone has a development plan with focus areas identified, including training needs and stretch assignments.

Experience and qualifications

Essential Education & Experience

• Suitably qualified professional with degree or similar education background.

• Accountancy qualification or working towards one (e.g. CIMA, CPA, ACA, ACCA)

• Strong presentation and communication skills, including the ability to articulate complex processes and influence a wide range of stakeholders.

• Passion and experience in capturing business requirements and improving processes and systems.

• General understanding of systems deployment activities.

• Ability to work and collaborate within a virtual global team environment.

• Ability to prioritize effectively 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 solve problems.

• Ability to build strong relationships with business stakeholders, technical teams and delivery teams.

Desirable Criteria

• Process Design.

• Experience working in a multi-national organization.

• Experience of Agile ways of working

Product Experience & Expertise
• Deep knowledge and significant experience of SAP FI processes and functionality including revaluation, reclassification and managing currencies

• Significant experience with SAP and BW including a general working knowledge of transactional processes in an SAP environment.

• Knowledge of integration with SAP MDG

• Significant experience of system and process design and system deployment for General Ledger.

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:

Agility core practices, Analytical Thinking, Commercial Acumen, Communication, Creativity and Innovation, Data Analysis, Decision Making, Digital Fluency, Integration, Managing strategic partnerships, Research and insights, Risk Management, Stakeholder Engagement, Stakeholder Management, Sustainability awareness and action

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.