Senior Business Process Analyst (Finance Master Data)

• Senior Business Process Analyst (Finance Master Data)

Senior Business Process Analyst (Finance Master Data)

• Travel required: No travel is expected with this role
• Job category: Finance Group
• Relocation available: This role is not eligible for relocation

The Senior Business Process Analyst is to govern Finance Master Data, including the Harmonised Data Set (HDS), Financial Data Structure (FDS) & Chart of Accounts (COA). The role requires serving as an expert to manage complex or critical data process areas to ensure integrity checks & approvals are applied before data maintenance. These controls over the exchange rate, HDS, FDS and COA master data are fundamental to ensure the financial data are accurately reported & adhere to BP Group Accounts, Complex Local Statutory Reporters, Group Tax & the Segment MI teams.

Key Accountabilities

• Operationalise finance master data requests in accordance with SLAs and conduct validations to compliance with the Global Financial Template (GFT), Americas Financial Template (AFT), Finance Business Warehouse (FBW) data standards practices and policies and procedures.
• Manage finance data critical or complex processes inclusive but not limited to:
• Focal point for exchange rate process including troubleshooting and resolving exchange rate issues ensuring Finance business continuity.
• Perform, analyse, and validate forecasting and planning rates, and the addition of new exchange rate types as well as the monitoring of the distribution of the exchange rates to the transactional systems.
• Work closely with FDS COA team to ensure the Quarterly Group Reporting Manual (GRM) changes are accurate, complete and timely for Group Reporting Purposes.
• Focal point for validation and release hold back table entries process.
• Support for Finance Security process including analyse, validate, and approve Finance business roles as well as ensuring proper Segregation of Duties (SOD).
• Support the Financial Reporting Structure, Cons Unit and Company Code process.
• Operationalise for validation and release hold back table entries and renaming of Global and Operational Accounts for short text and/or long text.
• Review and approval of updates to Financial Data Structures (FDS) and associated mapping tables.
• Support Project Deployments on Finance Master Data, FBW loads mappings, resolving issues when required.
• Identify, review, and propose continuous improvement within the system, internal control, and end to end process.
• Good knowledge in FBW, Financial Templates, and associated mapping tables and as a Global Centre of Expertise for finance master data.
• Provision of business support at key periods (e.g., month end) to enable timely reporting.
• Attend internal and external audit queries on Finance Master Data process when required.
• Review and update policy and procedures when required.
• Educate business users and super users to ensure they fully understand the finance master data request process, procedures, and principles.
• Maintain good working relationships with key stakeholders such as Super Users and Technical support teams.
• Inspire teams to learn new skills, adopt new practices and seek growth opportunities.
• Ensure successful change management process when there are new/change in processes or system introduced.

Essential Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in finance or recognized professional accounting qualification or related fields.
• Minimum 6 - 7 years of experience in general accounting or Group & MI reporting or data administration.
• Proficient in SAP FI & CO. Preferably exposure in SAP MDG and maintenance finance data structures/mapping.
• Able to work shifts during quarter close and stand by (if needed).

Desirable Criteria

• Excellent communication skills, ability to handle conflict & ability to work through sophisticated issues and take care of complex setup requirements that must be coordinated with key stakeholders.
• Ability to prioritize technology, work under stress & meet tight deadlines.

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!

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:

Accounting policy, Accounting processes and financial systems, Analytical Thinking, Analytics, Business process control, Business process improvement, Commercial Acumen, Communication, Customer centric thinking, Data Harmonization, Data Structures, Data visualization and interpretation, Digital Automation, Digital fluency, Financial Reporting, Influencing, Internal control and compliance, Risk Management, SAP Financial System, SAP Master Data Governance (MDG), Stakeholder Engagement.

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