Finance ERP Transformation Deployment Manager

Job summary

Entity:

Finance

Job Family Group:

Business Support Group

Job Description:

Join us in a crucial time of transformation. We are bringing all our finance and procurement activities for the group into one place, enabling efficiency, standardization and an overall stronger work environment.

For you this means working with us on:

Compliance – efficiently delivering external reporting requirements to ensure we continue to meet our regulatory ‎obligations in all jurisdictions, supported by robust control environment across all lines of ‎defense.‎

Stewardship – laying out a robust finance framework and providing ongoing management of the balance sheet and ‎portfolio execution, supported by effective advocacy to the market.‎

Performance – facilitating the effective allocation of capital, development of business plans and coordination of ‎business performance interventions to ensure a consistent delivery between strategic aspirations, ‎operational forecasts and delivered outcomes. Furthermore, you will be responsible for value creation through mergers and acquisition-led ‎deals, commercial negotiations and integration of business opportunities.‎

Transformation – driving digital transformation (centralizing, digitizing, optimizing) across all elements of the finance entity to ‎achieve sector-leading cost-performance.‎

About the Role

This role is part of the Finance Business and Technology (FBT), ERP Transformation Team, a team whose objectives underpin the overall Finance vision of creating and protecting value through innovation, insight, and stewardship. The team’s objectives are to lead the efforts to establish a single global ERP Financial business template that will incorporate standardized global processes, a common data taxonomy and simplify our ERP landscape. This includes partnering with Technology and global and business stakeholders to also manage interdependent processes and tools for an agile, consistent, and collaborative execution of change.

As the Transformation Deployment Manager for C&P Finance, you will play a critical role in supporting the end-to-end deployment of the SAP global financial business template, ensuring alignment to fit-to-standard requirements and seamless interaction across various functions. Additionally, you will drive successful project outcomes and ensure project benefits realization by exhibiting strong leadership and deep technical and business expertise in C&P and partnership with ST&S.

Our purpose is to bring together people, energy and markets to power and navigate a changing world. In a time of constant change and possibility we need new talent to pursue commercial opportunities, motivated by best-in-class insight and expertise. We’re always striving for more innovative digital solutions, sustainable outcomes and closer collaboration across our company and beyond, and you could be part of that too. Together we continue to grow as the world’s leading energy company!

What You Will Deliver

Support the planning, execution, and management of the finance core deployment across global, regional and local operations.

Ensure alignment to the global financial template - calling out gaps through established finance/entity governance.

Proactively track and support the resolution of associated deployment risks and collaborate to safeguard business & financial controls.

Foster a culture of collaboration and integrated partnerships across not only our integrated finance teams, but also technology, C&P, and ST&S, thus promoting standard processes and eliminating duplication or customization where warranted.

Partner with the C&P senior deployment lead to coordinate activity across all program workstreams (entity, change, process, data, technology) to ensure adequate management of integration points, dependencies, and risks.

Collaborate to develop/maintain an agile and sustainable operating model, including a strong connection with the finance change team to implement effective change , ensuring business readiness, end-user adoption and adequate training programs.

Provide transparency and clear purpose for retrofits to global standard and to ensure identified deltas to the standard are reviewed and endorsed.

Enable an integrated data approach to maintain consistent data standards and align around conversion cycles and data cleansing efforts.

Collaborate with the FBT enabling solutions teams to ensure requirements from current ECC the future S/4 are understood and addressed within the fit to standard design.

Ensure alignment of finance’s roles and responsibilities as it pertains to entity early life support (ELS).

Develop KPIs to measure progress and entry and exit criteria for ELS.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting or related field.

Experience in SAP deployments with specific focus in financial processes and data

Knowledge of C&P and ST&S - specific knowledge of hydrocarbon finance, operational and regulatory complexities

Ability with implementing process & organizational change, including continuous improvement, in a large-scaled project environment

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Excellent communication, stakeholder management and influencing skills

Good understanding and experience in working with FBT or similar centralized Finance functions

Outstanding ability to prioritize and work in a fast paced and demanding project environment

Up to 10% travel should be expected with this role

Desirables

Knowledge of S/4 HANA finance processes

Good knowledge of bp SAP ECC environments, key integration points and historical context

Awareness of processes and financial data flows of the current bp SAP ECC templates (i.e. global financial template GFT and Americas financial template AFT) and business impacts

Solid understanding of the fuels value chain, financialization of Customer and Products processes, and the integration with Trading and Shipping

Why Join Us?

At bp, we provide the following environment and benefits to you:

A company where we respect our diverse and unified teams, where we are proud of our achievements and where fun and giving back to our environment are highly valued

Possibility to join our social communities and networks

Learning opportunities and other development opportunities to craft your career path

Life and health insurance, medical care package

And many other benefits.

How much do we pay (Base)? ($134,000.00 - 250,000.00) *Note that the pay range listed for this position is a genuinely expected and reasonable estimate of the range of possible base compensation at the time of posting.

This position is eligible for US Benefits – Core. This position offers paid vacation depending on your years of relevant industry experience and will range from 120 – 240 hours of vacation per year for full time employees (60 - 240 hours of vacation per year for part time employees). You will also be eligible for 9 paid holidays per year and 2 personal choice holidays. You may learn more about how we calculate paid vacation and view our generous vacation and holiday schedules at Core U.S. Benefits. Bp has a parental leave policy as well, which offers up to 8 weeks’ paid leave for the birth or adoption of a child. Learn more by visiting Core U.S. Benefits.

We offer a reward package to enable your work to fit with your life. These offerings include a discretionary annual bonus program, long-term incentive program, and generous retirement benefits that include a 401k matching program. These benefits include a pension for eligible employee. You may learn more about our generous benefits at Core U.S. Benefits.

As part of bp’s wellbeing package, bp offers access to health, vision, and dental insurance, as well as life and Short-Term Disability and Long-Term Disability. You may learn more about our generous benefits at Core U.S. Benefits.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform crucial job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment.

Travel Requirement

Up to 10% travel should be expected with this role

Relocation Assistance:

Relocation may be negotiable for this role

Remote Type:

This position is a hybrid of office/remote working

Skills:

Agility core practices, Analytical Thinking, Commercial Acumen, Communication, Creativity and Innovation, Data Analysis, Decision Making, Digital fluency, Integration, Managing strategic partnerships, Research and insights, Risk Management, Stakeholder Engagement, Stakeholder Management, Sustainability awareness and action

Legal Disclaimer:

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, socioeconomic status, neurodiversity/neurocognitive functioning, veteran status or disability status. Individuals with an accessibility need may request an adjustment/accommodation related 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/accommodation related to the recruitment process, please contact us.

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