Senior Finance Analyst, M&C UK, Convenience

Senior Finance Analyst, M&C UK, Convenience

• Location: United Kingdom - Milton Keynes
• Travel required: Negligible travel should be expected with this role
• Job category: Finance Group
• Relocation available: This role is not eligible for relocation

Our purpose is to deliver energy to the world, today and tomorrow. For over 100 years, bp has focused on discovering, developing, and producing oil and gas in the nations where we operate. We are one of the few companies globally that can provide governments and customers with an integrated energy offering. Delivering our strategy sustainably is fundamental to achieving our ambition to be a net zero company by 2050 or sooner!

Job Synopsis

The Senior Finance Analyst is part of a team of finance specialists. The role will support delivery of key finance priorities within the Mobility & Convenience (M&C) UK business to enable it to meet its strategic and commercial objectives.

The holder supports the delivery of the business strategy and financial roadmap, including the assessment of risk. They hold the business to account for the impact that strategic and operational activities will have on financial outcomes and is accountable for intervening when delivery risk emerges.

The role provides finance expertise into business decision-making to build and protect sustainable value for bp through delivering a strong financial and control framework, whilst driving financial performance. Specifically, this means collaborating across businesses and supporting functions to develop, grow and protect the convenience value chain. To this aim the role is expected to:

• Maintain the relationships and information requirements with key partners in the trading and food teams and the Finance Business & Technology (FBT) to ensure accuracy, consistency and insight rich outputs are provided. This includes working with external relationships with partners such as M&S and other key counterparties to ensure bp’s contractual rights and obligations are met.
• Undertake pro-active reviews of opportunities and risks as identified through routine or specific reporting.
• Support projects throughout their delivery to ensure accurate financial information and assumptions used and that the project delivers against financial targets.

Key Roles & Responsibilities:

1. Commercial: Trusted advisor for the UK Trading Director in support of business delivery (commercial, accounting, investment), providing finance expertise into business decision-making across strategic and operational imperatives.
2. Performance: Supports the drive of business performance in both economic and strategic terms.
3. Control and Risk Management: Working with the Accounting Reporting & Control (ARC), trading team and FBT teams to ensure the maintenance of a robust control environment.
4. Simplification: Support process transformation of our business by eliminating interfaces and repetitions where possible.
5. People Development: Working with the FBT and other key collaborators to ensure the correct level of skills and capability are in place.

Job Functional Knowledge:

• A positive role model for business integrity, values, and behaviors.
• Strong business /commercial competence and understanding of retail businesses.
• Ability to work efficiently and influence across a wide range of partners.
• Strong financial skills and process expertise.
• Influence and drive process change across the business.
• Strong analytical skills with experience in developing and running sophisticated SAP queries.
• Ability to build insights from data analysis.

Business Expertise:

Knowledgeable expertise within the food retail / convenience industry as a commercial retail finance analyst to enable understanding of requirements and support trading meetings.

Leadership:

• Support the drive of strategic direction for finance in the M&C UK business.
• Strong evidence of a one-team culture.
• Ability to cut through key issues and challenges.
• Clear and concise communicator.
• Promotes a continuous improvement culture.

Problem Solving:

• Developing level of problem-solving skills required.
• Resolution of issues around key judgements / evaluations.

Interpersonal skills:

• Ability to speak up, listen up and act where required.
• Ability to accept change and deal with ambiguity.

Communication (verbal and written) - Good command of written and spoken English.

Minimum/Preferred Job Requirements and Qualifications

Minimum Education: Degree or equivalent experience in Business and/or Finance

Minimum Experience: Minimum 4 years of experience in a commercial finance role.

Preferred Education: Degree or equivalent experience in Business and/or Finance

Preferred Experience: Six years of experience in a commercial finance role.

Additional Information

At bp, we provide the following environment and benefits to you:

• A company culture where we respect our diverse and unified teams.
• Possibility to join our social communities and networks.
• Learning opportunities and other development opportunities.
• Life and health insurance, medical care package.
• And many other benefits.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company.