• Full Time
  • London

bp

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Certifications

  • PMI Certification
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Skills

  • Negotiation
  • Leadership
  • Data analysis skills
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Education

  • Bachelor’s degree
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Location

London

Benefits

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  • Relocation assistance

Full job description

Job summary

Entity:

Finance
Job Family Group:

Audit Group
Job Description:

Finance

 

Join us in a crucial time of transition. We are bringing all of our finance and procurement activities for the group into one place, enabling better work.

 

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 three lines of ‎defence.‎
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 (centralising, digitising, optimising) across all elements of the finance entity to ‎achieve sector-leading cost-performance.‎

 

Role Synopsis

 

Internal Audit (IA) is looking to recruit a hard-working individual with a background in management of Trading & Shipping risks.

 

IA’s vision is to ‘enable bp’s integrated energy company transition through its objective insights and advice’. We do this through a programme of approximately 120 audits per year that consider the management of bp’s significant risks. We work with bp’s entities and management to develop ways to better handle risk and report our results, insights and agreed actions to senior leadership.

 

We are a global and diverse team of ~130 people, based principally in Sunbury and Houston. We provide a centre of excellence for auditing bp’s principal risks across the globe and offer outstanding opportunities to improve your career, business knowledge, networks and leadership skills. If you want to influence senior management and make a difference to how bp manages its principal risks, the senior auditor role is for you.

 

The role involves leading or being a senior team member for a range of audits covering trading risks as well as other audits involving finance, commercial and business regulations activities. We are looking for trading risk management expertise in areas such as:

product control/middle office/market risk
understanding of commodities, including monitoring of front office activities with a control lens

 

In-house training and coaching will be provided to help you develop and practice audit and leadership skills. You may also contribute to the evolution of internal audit practices through continuous improvement projects.

 

Key Accountabilities

 

As a senior auditor, you will work as an audit lead or senior team member on audits across the year. You may take additional leadership roles within the function or when acting as a team member, for example acting as deputy lead.

 

Audit accountabilities:

Lead audit teams to deliver impactful insights, deliver high quality audit reports, work papers and business communications
Apply subject matter expertise to understand relevant business risks and controls, develop audit scopes, testing, material findings and verify action closure
Effectively engage with the business and maintain relationships with internal partners, the audit team and senior business leaders
Provide coaching, support, mentoring and development to other IA staff

 

Other accountabilities:

support IA’s evolution through continuous improvement of audit approaches and change programmes
help develop the annual audit programme and executive management reporting
exemplify conformance with bp requirements and processes
role model ethics and compliance as well as bp’s values & behaviours including a strong focus on HSSE management, diversity, inclusion and equity

 

Essential Education:

Formal qualifications constituting university degrees, examination certificates that confirm a level of educational attainment or licenses.
Membership of a technical or professional body that has confirmed an individual has reached a level of capability within a technical or professional field (usually but not necessarily obtained through examinations) or Formal certification that they can undertake specialist work or processes e.g. PMI.
Suitably qualified professional with Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Finance, Accounting, Engineering or other Quantitative field and relevant industry experience

 

Essential Experience and Job Requirements:

experience gained in bp or relevant industry covering the monitoring and oversight of trading risks and controls for a physical and financial trading environment of commodities
understanding of current and emerging business risk trends, threats, vulnerabilities and mitigations
ability to handle senior partner relationships and lead global teams in a range of business environments
data analysis and problem-solving skills with a track record of innovative approaches, simplification and efficiency
strong verbal and written communication skills including delivery of challenging messages to partners

 

Desirable criteria

Previous commodity or product control/middle office/market risk experience
Knowledge of governance, risks, and controls processes in a trading environment
Confident and curious with strong listening skills, able to consider different perspectives and challenge the status quo
Organised, open-minded and able to adapt to changing priorities, risks and business environments
Early adopter of new digital tools, data, technology and ways of working
Self-starting, inclusive teammate with capacity to support colleagues and provide honest feedback
Data-driven problem-solving skills with a passion for continuous improvement, simplification and efficiency
Able to navigate the organisation with tact and handle relationships at different levels

 

Why join us

 

At bp, we provide a phenomenal environment and benefits such as an open and inclusive culture, a great work-life balance, tremendous learning and development opportunities to craft your career path, life and health insurance, medical care package and many others!

 

Diversity sits at the heart of our company and as an equal opportunity employer, we stay true to our mission by ensuring that our place can be anyone’s place. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender and gender identity, 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 and interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.

 

Additional Information

 

The typical travel requirement for the role is approximately 25% but may vary depending on individual circumstances.

Internal Audit operates on a principle of nine fieldwork rounds per year, enabling auditors to plan and prepare for audit travel months in advance.


Travel Requirement

Up to 50% travel should be 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:

Agility core practices, Analytical Thinking, Digital fluency, Influencing, Internal Auditing, Managing change, Managing volatility, Negotiating, Organizational knowledge, Organizational Savvy, Regional perspective, Risk Management, Stakeholder Engagement, Stakeholder Management
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 disabilities may request a reasonable 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 accommodation related to the recruitment process, please contact us to request accommodations.

 

If you are selected for a position and depending upon your role, your employment may be contingent upon adherence to local policy. This may include pre-placement drug screening, medical review of physical fitness for the role, and background checks.

 

 

 

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