About Bp
At bp, our people are our most valuable asset. The People, Culture & Communications (PC&C) function fosters a diverse, inclusive culture where everybody can thrive. As part of an integrated energy company, PC&C is embarking on a major transformation to be more competitive, responsive, and customer-focused.
We're investing in key locations such as India, Hungary, Malaysia, and Brazil, offering an exciting but challenging opportunity to shape a fast-moving PC&C function, building teams and structures and driving continuous improvement.
We're looking for driven, ambitious enthusiasts who thrive in fast-paced environments and are passionate about people. If you're ready to build something transformative, this is the place for you.
GBS Enabling Solutions owns, designs, governs, deploys and supports global template products critical to bp's success, such as SAP global financial template, Finance Business Warehouse, SAP Ariba and Salesforce.
As Solution Specialist (for Group Reporting) you will use your business and accounting knowledge to govern the solution design and financial valuations of bp's legacy Finance Business Warehouse (FBW) system as well as coordinating the specification of the core configuration settings for establishing new entities in SAP and bp's Finance Business Warehouse System. In addition you'll work closely with project deployment teams to ensure the successful validation of financial data in FBW for entities migrated to our core ERP systems and work with technical teams to ensure the successful load and transformation of financial data coming from other ERP systemYou'll also chip in your knowledge and experience of group reporting and consolidation towards new solution build for group reporting using S/4 HANA - Central Finance as part of bp's ERP Transformation Project.Key Accountabilities
- Be the authority on template solutions within the functional area and participate in develop authorities.
- For approved demand, understand business requirements and sophisticated business processes and scenarios and translate / break these down into a simplified set of requirements for which solutions can be investigated.
- Build global standard solutions to meet business needs.
- Explain concepts and solutions to technical and non-technical partners.
- Prepare, review and/or approve functional specifications for solution design.
- Own the preparation, structure, and delivery of presentation materials for template familiarisation, template fit-gap, solution design, user training and team knowledge sharing.
- Lead template fit gap and user training sessions.
- Guide and constructive feedback to peer's design work.
- Identify, analyse, and delineate problems.
- Investigate and resolve solution incidents and conduct root cause analysis.
- Provide expertise for designs that cross functional areas in order to achieve end to end solutions that meet our customers needs.
- Advise others on integration considerations for interfaces coming from external systems.
- Review and signoff cross-system cutover plans and integration testing scenarios.
- For new designs or changes to design, provide testing scenarios to ensure the solution is robust.
- Understand, adopt, and accept agile principles and agile ways of working.
- Where agreed, act as Solution Integration Lead for specific projects, providing support to the project teams and their interaction and solution needs with the rest of the solutions team.
Education & Skills
- Suitably qualified professional with degree or similar education background.
- Accountancy qualification (e.g. CIMA, CPA, ACA, ACCA)
- Strong presentation and interpersonal skills, including the ability to articulate sophisticated processes and influence a wide range of collaborators.
- Passion and experience in assembling business requirements and improving processes and systems.
- General understanding of systems deployment activities.
- Ability to work and collaborate within a virtual distributed team environment.
- Ability to prioritize optimally for yourself and the team.
- 2+ years of experience of system design
- Ability to learn and be the authority on template solutions.
- Ability to formulate and tackle problems.
- Ability to build positive relationships with business partners, technical teams and delivery teams
Essential Experience And Job Requirements
- Deep knowledge and significant experience with Group reporting processes and functionality
- Deep knowledge of IFRS Accounting Standards
- Knowledge of financial data migration and financial reconciliations
- Knowledge of Consolidation data upload, input, reporting and controls
- Proficiency in excel tool to build data schemas & validations.
- Knowledge of data integration tools, such as Informatica, GRDC.
- Significant experience with SAP, cFIN, BW, Hyperian etc including a general solid understanding of transactional processes in an SAP environment.
- 9+ years of relevant work experience with systems and process design.
- Experience working in a multi-national organisation.
- Experience of Agile ways of working
Why bp
At bp, we support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and challenging environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity. We are committed to crafting an inclusive environment in which everyone is respected and treated fairly. Diversity Statement: At bp, we provide an excellent 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, colour, 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.
