Investment Governance Analyst

Entity:
Strategy, Sustainability & Ventures

Job Family Group:
Strategic Planning & Business Development Group

Job Description:

Opportunity to work in the central investment governance team providing analytical insights and shaping investment policy.

Our main priorities are:

Investment policy: maintaining and developing bp's investment governance policy, the Group Investment Assurance and Approvals Process (GIAAP) and the Economic Evaluation Methodology (EEM) to ensure alignment with bp's strategy and sustainability agenda.
Investment governance: providing guidance and support to the businesses on the application of EEM and GIAAP (particularly for novel and complex aspects of economic evaluation).
Investment assurance: assuring all investment decisions >$100m, including acquisitions and divestments.
Training: Providing SME support for a range of training programmes to enhance economic and wider evaluation methodology skills across bp.

The Investment governance analyst role is responsible for supporting the development, implementation and analysis of bp's investment appraisal and governance policies and will be working closely with investment governance professionals across the businesses.

Key Accountabilities:

1. Support the development and maintenance of bp's policies for investment governance (GIAAP) and investment appraisal (EEM) aligned with group strategy.
2. Advise the businesses in their interpretation and implementation of EEM (economic evaluation methodology).
3. Manage processes related to the Resource Commitment Meeting (RCM).
4. Provide assurance of investment cases.
5. Provide portfolio insights on the EVP/RCM investment cases to support EVP/RCM decision making.
6. Support the RCM practitioner's group.

Essential Experience and Job Requirements:

1. Deep commercial and economic evaluation skills or corporate planning.
2. Experience of the investment governance process.
3. Experience of developing business cases and valuation.
4. Strong analytical and data skills - able to translate data into meaningful insights for senior management.
5. Excellent written and verbal communication.
6. Strong interpersonal skills to be able to work across businesses, levels and geographies.
7. Strong attention to detail.
8. Ability to listen carefully and consider different perspectives.
9. Advanced Excel skills.
10. Experience of structured finance desirable.

Desirable:

1. Experience with Anansi, powerBi, coding, data flows preferable, but not essential.

Disclaimer: please note that this role will be based in St James Square (SJS) until early 2025, at which point it will move to another South East UK location.

Why join us?

At bp, we provide an excellent working environment and employee 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.

We support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and exciting 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.

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:
Acquisitions and divestments, Agreements and negotiations, Analytics, Commercial Acumen, Communication, Contractual risk management, Data visualization and interpretation, Deal structuring, Decision Making, Developing and implementing strategy, Economic evaluation methodology, Economic modelling, Financial Analysis, Financial Modelling, Influencing, Investment appraisal, Joint Venture Structuring, Long Term Planning, Managing change, Market Analysis, Project and programme management, Risk Management, Sector, market, customer and competitor understanding.

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.