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The Core Finance team delivers scalable products and services supporting Commercial Finance business partners and specialist functions, including management information, valuation support, data and reporting, new activity delivery and continuous improvement. The role reports to the Senior Manager, Core Finance and leads work across business and technology centre locations and cross-functional teams.\nJob Synopsis:\nThe Core Finance Lead owns the accurate, timely and controlled delivery of an assigned portfolio of Core Finance activities. The role brings together management information and performance analysis, independent validation of valuations used in financial reporting, new activity support, project delivery and continuous improvement into a scalable, clearly governed service model. The role operates across Finance, commercial and service-delivery interfaces while maintaining clear accountability boundaries. The role is accountable for understanding external management accounting data requirements and ensuring valuations used for external management accounting are appropriate, supported and clearly explained.\nKey Roles & Responsibilities:\n1. Lead the production, validation and explanation of high-quality management information and performance analysis, ensuring material movements, data issues and valuation differences are understood and called out.\n2. Oversee independent valuation review for the assigned portfolio, including input data, curves, models, methodologies and adjustments, and ensure valuations used for external management accounting are appropriate, supported and aligned with defined data requirements.\n3. Lead Core Finance support for new commercial activity from assessment through implementation, coordinating Finance input, delivery plans, functional assurance, readiness activities and handover into sustainable business-as-usual processes.\n4. Manage cross-functional improvement and transformation initiatives, applying structured project delivery, process redesign and change management to simplify, standardise, automate or stop work.\n5. Set priorities across teams and locations, review complex outputs, coach colleagues and establish clear accountabilities, service expectations, documentation and blocking issue routes for assigned processes.\n6. Partner with Finance, commercial, technology and service-delivery partners to resolve complex data, valuation and process issues, ensuring the right expertise is engaged and accountabilities are clearly aligned across the end-to-end process.\nJob Functional Knowledge:\nDeep practical knowledge of financial analysis, management information, valuation processes, data controls, new activity delivery and business transformation in a complex trading or supply environment. Strong understanding of valuation inputs, curves, models, methodologies, data lineage and control evidence, together with the external management accounting data requirements affected by valuation outputs. Working knowledge of project delivery, process design, change management, automation and continuous improvement. The role applies this knowledge to connect Finance, commercial, risk, control and service-delivery interfaces and support high-quality outcomes across the assigned portfolio.\nBusiness Expertise:\nStrong understanding of ST&S or a comparable commodity trading and supply business, including how transactions, market data, valuation methods, systems and operational events affect management information and external management accounting. Brings clarity across Finance, commercial, risk, control, technology and service-delivery accountabilities, engaging the appropriate expertise to support effective decisions and sustainable delivery.\nLeadership:\nProvides day-to-day leadership for a Core Finance team or portfolio of work. Sets clear outcomes, allocates priorities, assures complex outputs and develops capability through coaching, cross-training and knowledge sharing. Leads project and agile delivery teams across organisational and geographic boundaries and creates clarity through operating-model, process and technology change.\nProblem Solving:\nUses sound judgement to resolve complex valuation, data, reporting, process and delivery issues, often under tight deadlines and with incomplete information. Distinguishes root causes from symptoms, evaluates commercial and reporting impacts, challenges assumptions and develops practical solutions. Engages the appropriate Finance, risk, control or functional interested parties to ensure timely decisions, clear ownership and well-supported outcomes.\nNature and Area of Impact:\nAccountable for the quality, timeliness and control of assigned Core Finance products, services and change delivery. The role affects the reliability of management information, the appropriateness of valuations used for external management accounting, the readiness of new commercial activity and the effectiveness of operational improvements. It also influences efficiency, standardisation, scalability and capability across ST&S Finance & Risk.\nInterpersonal skills:\nBuilds trusted relationships across Finance, commercial, technology and service-delivery teams. Communicates complex valuation, data and process matters in clear business language, provides constructive challenge and secures alignment across competing priorities. Confidently leads workshops, raises material issues and maintains a collaborative, practical and delivery-focused approach.\nMinimum Education:\n- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in finance, economics, business, engineering, data or a related field.\n- Advanced degree or relevant professional qualification in finance, accounting, project delivery, data or change management.\n- Significant experience in commodity trading finance, valuation control, management information, commercial or new activity delivery, transformation, project management or a comparable analytical environment.\n- Experience leading complex work across functions or locations.\n- Experience with physical or financial commodity valuations, trading and reporting data, functional assurance, business implementation, process redesign, automation, agile delivery and global service models.\n- Relevant finance, accounting, project management, data or change qualifications are beneficial and support success in the role.\nWhy join us\nAt bp, we support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and ambitious environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity. We are committed to encouraging an inclusive environment in which everyone is respected and treated fairly.\nThere are many aspects of our employees’ lives that are meaningful, so we o8er benefits (https://exploreyourbenefits.com/landing.html) to enable your work to fit with your life. These benefits can include flexible working options, a generous paid parental leave policy, and excellent retirement benefits, among others!\nWe 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.\nBEWARE - RECRUITMENT FRAUD\nIt has come to our attention that there are a number of fraudulent emails from people pretending to work for bp. Please be advised that we do not require any forms of payment or course by applicants to be considered for open positions.\nTravel Requirement\nNo travel is expected with this roleRelocation Assistance:\nThis role is not eligible for relocationRemote Type:\nThis position is a hybrid of office/remote workingSkills:\nAnalytical Thinking, Business Acumen, Collaboration, Commodity Risk Management, Creativity and Innovation, Curiosity, Data visualization and interpretation, Decision Making, Exposure Management, Internal control and compliance, Market Knowledge, Market Risk Management, Operational Risk, Portfolio analytics, Problem Solving, Resilience, Sentiment and Trends, Thought Leadership, Trade discipline and compliance, Trade execution and management, Trading and shipping data knowledge, Trading Fundamentals, Trading knowledge, Trading risk controls.\n\n Legal Disclaimer:\nWe are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of protected characteristics like race, religion, color, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, veteran status or disability status. Individualswith an accessibility need may request an adjustment/accommodationrelated to bp’s recruiting process (e.g., accessing the job application, completing required assessments, participating in telephone screenings or interviews, etc.). If you would like to request an adjustment/accommodationrelated to the recruitment process, please contact us.\nIf you are selected for a position and depending upon your role, your employment may be contingent upon adherence to local policy. 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