The Business Performance Advisor is responsible for delivering business planning and performance management products to various bp businesses.
Key responsibilities include partnering with onsite technical and finance leadership in different geographies to gain a deep understanding of the business context, developing insightful financial products to support decision-making, and managing planning and performance management work. The role also involves coaching less expert analysts and effectively managing stakeholder expectations.
What you will deliver
- Business Partnering and Performance Insights: Prepare informative financial management information to support business decisions, recommend and implement interventions where necessary. Prepare and present material for business performance discussions to include key messages, analysis and insights. Provide performance insights to business collaborators focused on improving the profitability of the business.
- Economic Evaluation: Perform economic analysis to evaluate the financial viability of various projects or scenarios for the business. Provide insights to the business on economic drivers and sources of value.
- Continuous Improvement: Promote the use of new and/or standardized systems and continuously improve supply related MI systems and processes to increase automation and move towards increasing the self-service model.
- Cross-team integration: as a senior leader within FP&A, work with peers in remote locations across geographies in bp to earn trust, share context and establish ways of working. Work to develop a positive working culture that motivates staff to succeed and develop careers at bp.
- Standardization and Process Optimization: Drive continuous improvement to promote standardization and simplification. Implement strategies that drive the automation of financial products, to improve the efficiency of financial analysis and reporting.
- Leadership: Coach more junior team members, ensuring effective execution of the team's accountabilities. Embed new ways of working, driving cross-team collaboration.
Must have educational qualifications:
- CA or other accounting designation (CIMA, ACCA)
- 12+ years of relevant post degree experience in financial reporting, budgeting and forecasting, ideally in a downstream business or customer facing businesses in industries such as Retail, Manufacturing, or Logistics.
Must have experience/skills (To be hired with):
- Extensive Performance Reporting experience gained in large scale organizations.
- Extensive experience of developing and communicating financial management information to business stakeholders.
- Experience with delivery of business planning processes
- Experience in working with financial systems such as SAP, Microsoft products and visualization tools such as Power BI, Tableau.
- Ability to manage relationships with different stakeholders at various levels in the organization.
- Coaching team members to work towards a common goal.
