Our purpose is to deliver energy to the world, today and tomorrow. For over 100 years, bp has focused on discovering, developing, and producing oil and gas in the nations where we operate. We are one of the few companies globally that can provide governments and customers with an integrated energy offering. Delivering our strategy sustainably is fundamental to achieving our ambition to be a net zero company by 2050 or sooner!

Join us in a crucial time of transition. We are bringing all 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 ‎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.‎

Currently an exciting new job opportunity has arisen for a Finance Change Advisor to join our team in Pune.
In this role you will work with the Quantum-Finance Change Manager and will support efforts to ensure the Quantum Finance Program is efficiently implemented across the globe and that the benefits are realized.
The role is part of the Finance, Business, and Technology (FBT) Finance ERP Transformation Team, a team whose objectives underpin the overall Finance vision of creating and protecting value through innovation, insight and stewardship. The role will mainly lead the S/4 implementation Change activities.
The team’s objective is to lead the efforts to establish a single global ERP Business template that will incorporate standardized global processes, a common data taxonomy and simplify our ERP landscape. This includes partnering with Technology, Process, global and business colleagues to also handle interdependent processes and tools for an agile, consistent and collaborative execution of change.
Key Accountabilities:
•    Support the Change and transformation workstream activities for S/4 implementation in accordance with functional and system requirements and translate these into detailed plans.
•    Lead and conduct detailed Change Impact Assessment (CIA) to identify, analyse, and validate them for S/4 implementation including Entity Confirmation and localization. Secure approval of the CIAs by Troika (Governance).
•    Collaborate with key partners to understand the scope and depth of key changes and their potential impacts on the organization.
•    Support the Training Need Analysis (TNA) and Curriculum design that effectively addresses the needs of different user groups for S/4 implementation.
•    Support the scope definition of the UAT for S/4 implementation.
•    Establish and maintain a robust change network across bp to ensure widespread engagement and support for the S4 implementation.
•    Clearly communicate the most impactful changes to the organization, ensuring that all employees understand the significance of the change and how it will affect their day-to-day activities.
•    Ensure all key customers (internal and external) are committed to, and actively encouraging of the deployment.
•    Ensure strong business and FBT engagement via finance and business change champions (BCCs) and team leads.
•    Collaborate with all key partners (internal and external) to gain commitment to, and active support of the deployment.
•    Integration with other teams and groups across the Quantum Programme to optimize Change delivery
•    Actively participate and help develop a network of Finance & Business Change Champions (BCCs), Super Users and Team Leads.
•    Support execution of Change & Transformation activities required to embed new behaviours, practices and business processes including areas of key system and/or process dependency (i.e. workday, data lake, business warehouse, etc.)
•    Support Business Readiness activities including tracking of the BCC Plans and tracking and management of the Business Readiness project plans.
•    Collaborate across workstreams/squads to connect on related change impacts for input into program/ project work.
•    Support the development and completion of the role mapping for end users.
•    Support communication and engagement initiatives and delivery
•    Support the coordination and delivery of training including onboarding of training team, development of any required localization of training materials, training need analysis, scheduling of training and delivery of training.
•    Build and supervise business stability metrics before and after launch to measure post release stabilization.
•    Understand adopt and embrace agile principles and agile ways of working.
Essential Education & Experience:
•    Suitably qualified professional with degree or similar education background in Accounting, Finance, or Business.
•    2+ years of experience in Finance deployments and/or SAP system implementation, including planning and execution of project work.
•    Exposure to agile ways-of-working and Scrum methodology.
•    Good communicator – Ability to communicate effectively through various channels using a range of styles and approaches to gain commitment and support from diverse partners to help achieve business outcomes, create acceptance for decisions, build consensus or resolve conflict.
•    Attentive listener – Demonstrated ability to work with a broad range of business, functional, and technical groups.
•    Critical thinker – Ability to establish information requirements, seek out information from various sources to systematically decipher key messages to varied partner groups.
•    Collaborative style - provide demonstrable evidence of thriving in a team environment & of building positive, productive relationships that foster teamwork and cooperation among individuals and various functional groups.
•    Ability to work with ambiguity and to identify and adopt optimum ways of working.
Desirable Criteria:
Relevant knowledge and process experience in the following areas:
•    Change Management and transformation.
•    SAP Financial system deployment.
•    Significant exposure to global operations is a plus.
•    Project management experience and knowledge of process re-engineering tools is a plus.
•    Proficiency in MS office applications.
•    Experience in business transformation projects.
•    Ability of solving problems on their own, working on complex issues and subjects across multiple teams.
•    Strong stakeholder management and engagement skills.
•    Ability to work within a virtual global team environment.

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
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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.
 

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.

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.