You will be taken to BP’s own careers page to apply. Job ID RQ116676.
Job description
Entity: Finance Job Family Group: Finance Group Job Description: Background and purpose of role: BP is driving a central transformation project with an objective to upgrade and standardised the policies, process, control and technology around balance sheet assurance/ reconciliation and journal entry, to implement an integrated solution via Blackline SaaS solution. The project aims to bring digitization and enhance BP’s balance sheet reconciliations and manual journals operating and assurance capabilities.
This role is going to play a pivotal role as a part of project team. Primary objective of this role is to support be proficient in BlackLine maintenance and reporting functionalities. The role requires Blackline admin expertise coupled with finance process and accounting knowledge.
The role entails ample opportunities and requires working with senior stakeholders across BP’s GBS teams, liasie with BP-wide finance and control teams while assisting transformation project team.
Key Results / Accountabilities: Key roles and responsibilities will include:
Lead and manage the BlackLine System Administrator team, providing guidance, support, and mentoring to team members.
Allocate tasks, monitor performance, and ensure timely completion of assignments.
Oversee the maintenance and configuration of the BlackLine platform to ensure optimal performance and alignment with business requirements.
Configure system settings, user permissions, and access controls according to organizational policies and requirements.
Manage user assignments within the BlackLine platform, including adding new users, updating user profiles, and deactivating accounts as needed.
Provide user support and troubleshooting assistance to address any issues related to user access or functionality within BlackLine.
Maintain precise master data in BlackLine, including charts of accounts and mapping tables, ensuring platform-wide consistency and integrity through regular audits and validation checks.
Monitor compliance with internal policies, industry regulations, and security standards within the BlackLine environment.
Develop and customize reports in BlackLine to track key performance indicators (KPIs) related to reconciliation activities and process efficiency.
Generate monthly reports summarizing reconciliation completion status, outstanding actions, and other relevant metrics for management review.
Facilitate training sessions for new users to familiarize them with BlackLine functionalities, processes, and best practices and provide ongoing support and assistance to users, answering inquiries, troubleshooting issues, and addressing training needs as they arise.
Configure and manage workflows within BlackLine to streamline reconciliation processes and approval workflows.
Key Challenges
Demonstrate clear understanding of the business context of the company in order to deliver high quality service.
Quick to react and adapt to constantly changing business requirements to support rapidly changing business requirements.
Ability to interact with and influence people at all levels, geographies and time zones within the organisation, building strong relationships quickly.
Complete understanding of system landscape and infrastructure
End to end understanding of GBS control monitoring and governance processes.
Ensuring that BP's control environment remains effective through compliance with internal/ external requirements via the application of controls and systems across all activities in scope of operations.
Looks for ways to do things better, faster, more efficiently.
Qualification and Experience.
Education and Experience
Bachelor’s degree in finance, Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field.
10+ years of relevant experience in finance, Blackline / SAP ECC / S4 HANA / MS Office Suite.
Clear, fluent, and confident written and verbal communication skills
Strong continuous improvement mentality and drive for excellence
Agile outlook to adapt to changing circumstances and priorities
Knowledge and Skills Required
Good levels of proactivity & drive, analytical thinking, strong communications & engagement, tenacity and preferably have pre-BP background experience in Blackline
BlackLine and SAP FI-CO is preferred.
Project role for 12-18 months which transitions back to an operational team lead / senior analyst role after the project finishes
Understanding of the end-to-end financial process lifecycle like O2C, P2P and R2R
Strong planning and problem-solving skills
Ability to communicate effectively
Strong stakeholder management skills
Ability to work independently, manage multiple tasks concurrently
Desirable
Experience with power, Oil and gas industry, big4 or GBS/ SSC experience
Leadership Competencies
Value Expertise Develop capability through continual learning: Proactively develops the expertise of themselves and others and encourages and supports a climate of continual learning. Energise People Foster effective teamwork and collaboration: Facilitates effective teamwork and builds collaborative relationships internally and externally. Act Decisively Demonstrate relentless drive and determination: Continually demonstrates a real hunger and drive to achieve, high levels of energy and a solid resilience, and understands and manages the impact of this on others. Deliver Results Manage risk and drive safe, reliable and efficient operations: Proactively manages risks and insists on sustained operational excellence.
Mindsets Own your success
Demonstrates leadership and is accountable for driving team performance
Inspires teams to evaluate and enhance delivery of business outcomes
Models safe and ethical work practices and a culture of transparency
Think big
Actively seeks opportunities to transform and enhance processes and systems
Constantly seeks ways to transform, improve and innovate
Builds the skills and knowledge of self and the team and promotes a collaborative team environment
Be curious
Encourages a culture of curiosity across teams
Ensures the delivery and improvement of digital solutions to benefit customers
Supports the team to try new technologies, fail and learn fast and implement solutions at pace
Effortless customer experience
Drives team to understand customer needs and deliver digital seamless self-service customer experiences
Fosters cross-functional collaboration in support of One Finance
Digital first
Keeps up-to-date with digital innovation and seeks digital solutions for problems
Encourages the team to deliver creative digital solutions
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Travel Requirement No travel is expected with this role Relocation Assistance: This role is eligible for relocation within country Remote Type: This position is a hybrid of office/remote working Skills: Accounting policy, Accounting Processes and Financial Systems, Analytical Thinking, Analytics, Business process control, Business process improvement, Commercial Acumen, Customer centric thinking, Data Analysis, Digital Fluency, Financial Reporting, Internal control and compliance.
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