FP&A Business Performance Advisor

The Business Performance Advisor role involves delivering business planning and performance management products for a large Oil and Gas business. This position requires partnering with onsite technical and finance teams across different geographies to gain a deep understanding of the business context. The key objective is to develop and deliver insightful financial products that enable effective business financial performance management and support decision-making.

The role demands good engagement skills and the ability to manage conflicting priorities while meeting stakeholder expectations. It also involves contributing to the cost performance management agenda, supporting core FP&A processes, and maintaining a proactive business partnering relationship between finance and business teams.

The incumbent would be potentially required to work under alternative shift arrangements to ensure appropriate overlap hours with Eastern Standard time or Asia Pacific time zones.

WHAT YOU WILL DELIVER

• Performance Management: Prepare timely, accurate, and reliable financial and management information to support business decisions. Develop and explain material for business performance leadership team discussions, including key messages, analysis, and insights. Provide performance insights to business stakeholders focused on improving profitability.
• Business Partnering and Performance Insights: Establish and maintain a proactive business partnering relationship with relevant Business/Function Leadership teams. Support the Performance Management agenda, ensuring robust and timely forecasts and delivery of MI analysis and commentary. Monitor and support cost reduction initiatives and ensure effective tracking and accurate analysis of profitability.
• Actuals Analysis: Analyze monthly/quarterly actuals, including trend analysis and explaining actuals vs. forecasts. Highlight areas where performance is behind or ahead of plan and suggest potential interventions.
• Business Planning: Play a key role in developing the long-term plan and quarterly plan update process. Coordinate the plan for a part of the business, analyze plan data in SAP-based systems, and output in PowerBI/Tableau reports. Prepare presentation material, including commentary, and answer follow-up questions from leadership or central finance teams.
• Joint Venture Management: Support the local finance team in developing plans and Authorization for Expenditure (AFEs) for joint venture partners' approval.
• Economic Evaluation: Perform economic analysis to evaluate the financial viability of various projects or scenarios. Develop insights into economic drivers and sources of value for the business.
• Strategy & Planning: Support the annual planning process, ensuring plans are appropriately challenged and assured. Produce detailed cost forecasts, highlight areas where performance targets are not being met, and ensure data quality in submissions. Support ad-hoc and strategic business decisions, understanding the implications and balancing risk and reward.
• Continuous Improvement: Identify and deliver continuous improvement opportunities in performance management products. Promote the use of standard systems and reports, and work towards standardizing and simplifying performance management processes.

WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO BE SUCCESSFUL

• Educational qualifications: Business/Finance or Engineering Discipline Degree level or equivalent
• Preferred education/certifications: Master’s Degree or other qualification in a finance discipline e.g. MBA, CA, ICWA/Cost Accountants
• Minimum years of relevant experience: 5 years of relevant post degree experience in financial reporting, budgeting and forecasting
• Preferred experience: Experience within global, complex and matrix organizations, preferably within an Oil & Gas business or experience in industries such as Retail, Asset-based business, Manufacturing, or Logistics.
• Must have experiences/skills (To be hired with):
  • Knowledge and application of Plan to Perform processes, including digital literacy and analysis.
  • Strong analytical and insight capabilities, with a focus on continuous improvement in performance management and MI.
  • Excellent team player with strong communication skills, capable of translating complex requirements into simple outcomes.
  • Ability to gain trust from finance and business senior stakeholders.
  • Deliver process improvements, share best practices, and drive performance.
  • Experience in working with financial systems such as SAP, Microsoft products and visualization tools such as Power BI, Tableau.

YOU WILL WORK WITH

• You will be working with a team of finance professionals as part of the Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) organization. The FP&A organization is an exciting new team being established by bp to create a centre of expertise in the areas of business planning, budgeting and forecasting, financial analysis and economic evaluation.
• The role will regularly interact and be the main contact point for Business/Functions senior leadership.
• In addition to the FP&A team, you will also be partnering with the local finance team and various technical and leadership teams in onsite locations.

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!

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