Senior Finance Operations Professional

Job Description

The role will be part of the finance organization at bp, which is modernizing and digitizing finance activities. The Financial Planning and Analysis (FPA) team plays a critical role in driving end-to-end process control and compliance. The FPA team delivers best-in-class financial insights and analysis to support business decisions.

• Customer products
• Gas low carbon energy
• Production operations
• Innovation engineering
• Regions, cities solutions
• Strategy sustainability
• Trading Shipping
• Communications advocacy
• Finance
• Legal
• People culture

About the Role

The FPA Senior Cost Engineer focuses on partnering with the Oil Gas Management team to deliver cost capex management services for the businesses. The role involves supporting Budget Responsible Officers (BROs) in preparing monthly Value of Work Done (VOWD) and variance commentary, monitoring POs, and providing Super-User support for the Cost Management Tool (CMT).

Key Responsibilities

1. Business Partnering
2. Monthly VOWD Preparation: Support BROs in preparing monthly VOWD for project and cost centre scopes, continuously improving the process and supporting its application within the CMT.
3. AFE Management: Lead the creation, documentation, validation, and approval of AFEs as required by asset-specific joint operating agreements and communicate cost objects to the organization following AFE approval.
4. Operational Purchase Order Monitoring: Monitor POs associated with project scopes and provide support to BROs.
5. Invoice Resolution: Support BROs with invoice resolution through collaboration with SAP specialists.
6. SES Management: Provide guidance on SES release, assist with vendor payment requests, and manage SES reversals.
7. Technical lead Super-User Support: Provide Super-User support for CMT, maintaining master data and cost data mapping.
8. Performance Management and Reporting: Collaborate with BROs to develop plans, budgets, and forecasts, ensuring the inclusion of third-party costs, labour, overhead, and allocation data into relevant planning and cost management systems to eliminate data gaps and ensure data quality.
9. Cost Performance Analysis: Apply technology to develop monthly cost performance analyses (e.g., monthly quarterly run-rates, cost-reducing initiative delivery, actuals/accrual variance to plan, year-on-year costs) and generate action plans to improve performance.
10. Variance Commentary: Prepare monthly variance commentary of actuals against QPF, ensuring accurate financial reporting.
11. Cost Performance Leadership: Lead cost performance processes with regionally deployed BROs, promoting the use of new and standardized systems, and coaching BROs on using available tools to drive self-service, efficiency, and value generation.
12. Collaboration and Analysis: Support and collaborate with the OG FPA Business Performance Team, central Enabler Performance teams, and the FPA Performance Management Benchmarking Metrics team in analyzing metrics and key performance indicators to ensure high-quality, streamlined delivery of performance data.
13. Continuous Improvement:
14. Continuously improve cost-related systems and processes to increase automation and move towards increasing the self-service model.

Requirements

Must have educational qualifications:

• Engineering Field Degree level or equivalent

Preferred education/certifications:

• Master's Degree or other qualification in a finance field e.g. MBA, CA, ICWA/Cost Accountants

Minimum years of relevant experience:

• 5 years of relevant post-degree experience in cost engineer role.

Preferred experience:

• Experience within global, complex, and matrix organizations in financial reporting, budgeting, and forecasting, preferably in oil gas or retail or logistics or manufacturing or asset-based businesses.

Must have experiences/skills (To be hired with):

• Advanced-level use of PowerBI, Excel, and data analytics.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Prior experience in finance processes, especially in estimating value of work done, budgeting forecasting, and cost monitoring analysis.
• Continuous improvement in performance management and MI to promote standardization and simplification.
• Ability to gain trust from finance and business senior collaborators.

Benefits

As a member of the FPA team, you will be part of a group that brings additional value to bp through innovative financial strategies and solutions. You will regularly interact and be the main contact point for Business/Functions leadership team.

Others

You will also be partnering with the local finance team and various technical and leadership teams in onsite locations.