Trading Settlements Senior Analyst

Job Description:

Our supply and trading business, Trading & Shipping (T&S), connects BP to the world’s traded markets for oil, gas, power, refinery feedstocks, and currencies. We market BP’s equity crude oil and natural gas, import feedstocks for our refinery system, and buy products to meet marketing demand. We offer a combination of unique expertise in physical supply and trading, innovative financial structures, and world-class analytics to deliver long-term value, from wellhead to end customer.

Key Responsibilities

• Accountable for the accurate and timely completion of Marine Bunker Oil Settlements activities within the area of responsibility
• Support the integration of new business activity into area of responsibility, ensuring that activity is embedded in a controlled and efficient manner
• Accountable for ensuring that the operational activity within the area of responsibility is conducted within a strong control framework
• Highlight any gaps or issues, develop, document, and implement mitigations as appropriate
• Understand the business performance expectations, measurement, and reporting of KPIs for area of responsibility
• Provide commentary and actions as appropriate and address root causes of issues
• Deal with settlement disputes in a timely manner
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with T&S Commercial Teams
• Ensure full compliance with the BP T&S Settlements Policy
• Provide good quality customer service in all external interactions
• Work with relevant teams addressing root causes of outstanding items and issues raised
• Manage aged debt and daily cash funding, supporting Group cash and working capital management objectives
• Deal with a wide variety of ad-hoc queries
• Pro-actively seek opportunities to standardize, simplify, and automate processes to improve performance and efficiency
• Identify and deliver continuous improvement ideas
• Support change activities to ensure successful implementation in area of responsibility
• Actively participate in and support projects as appropriate

Essential Education, Experience and Job Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting/Finance or equivalent
• 9 – 10 years of experience
• General understanding of Accounts Payable/Receivable settlement and Tax principles
• Understanding of Commodity Trading and/or Oil Physical Life cycle (deal entry to settlement) would be advantageous
• Able to work ANZ hours for a few days during month-end closing
• Basic change management or process improvement skills
• Good problem-solving, communication, and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work as part of a team in a fast-paced environment
• Good stakeholder management/customer service capabilities
• Good MS skills and ability to manage data from multiple sources and systems
• Strong team working capabilities with ability to support and appropriately challenge team members

Why Join Us?

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 fostering an inclusive environment in which everyone is respected and treated fairly. There are many aspects of our employees’ lives that are meaningful, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life! These benefits can include flexible working options, paid parental leave policy among others!

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Skills:

Analytical Thinking, Business process improvement, Communication, Creativity and Innovation, Curiosity, Customer experience, Decision Making, Group Problem Solving, Internal control and compliance, Resilience, Thought Leadership, Trading knowledge.

For further information, and to apply, please visit our website via the “Apply” button below.

Candidates must be resident in Malaysia, or have the right to work in Malaysia.