Senior Control & Assurance Advisor - Technology, Central ARC - Control & Assurance

BP Energy; Sunbury-on-Thames; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A global energy company in the UK seeks a professional for an IT SOX compliance role within the Control & Assurance team. The successful candidate will oversee IT-enabled controls, ensuring compliance and supporting strategic transformation in financial reporting processes. An ideal individual is expected to possess a degree relevant to IT or Business Administration, with strong experience in compliance frameworks and excellent interpersonal skills. This hybrid position offers various employee benefits, including flexible working options.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Generous parental leave policy

Excellent retirement benefits

Qualifications

• Proven experience in IT SOX compliance requirements and frameworks.
• Experience in ABC and SOD control design and day to day management.
• Ability to identify control risks within complex processes.

Responsibilities

• Design ownership and governance of changes to IT enabled controls.
• Lead ABC compliance related activities governed in Service Now IRM.
• Provide clear and practical ABC / SOD advice to partners.

Skills

Accounting policy

Business process control

Stakeholder Engagement

Internal control and compliance

Digital Fluency

Commercial Acumen

Financial Reporting

Collaboration

Risk Management

Business process improvement

Education

University degree in Information Technology or Business Administration

Accounting qualification (CA, ACA, CPA, CIMA, ACCA, etc.) or MBA

Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA)

Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC)

Job description

Entity

Finance

Job Family Group

Finance Group

Job Description

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.

About the role

This is an exciting time to join Control & Assurance (C&A) team - bp’s second line of defence. The team is ultimately accountable for ensuring compliance with external requirements and assurance over bp’s internal control over financial reporting (ICFR). This includes quarterly due diligence, development and deployment of internal control policy, governance and risk management, and the annual management assessment for Sarbanes Oxley purposes. The agenda of strategic modernisation and transformation overarches across all its scope. This role provides ample opportunities to drive bp’s ICFR strategic agenda (regarding IT and IT dependent controls such as ABCs and SODs), work across different bp businesses, and participate in end-to-end transformation projects across the company.

What you will deliver

• Overall design ownership and governance of changes to IT enabled controls such as SAP Automated Business Controls (ABCs) control Segregation of Duty (SOD) controls and other application controls.
• Policy design, guidance and compliance monitoring of ABC (including development of associated control analytics).
• Design, documentation, implementation and maintenance of ABCs.
• Review and approval of ABC additions / deletions / changes (for new and existing systems) in support of process or system changes / implementations.
• Lead ABC compliance related activities governed in Service Now IRM controls platform.

Scoping of ABCs for annual management assessment testing

• Facilitation of testing as the first point of contact for ABC and SOD controls with internal and external audit teams.
• Provide clear and practical ABC / SOD advice to partners in relation to business and technology changes e.g. new system/application implementations and process changes.
• Identify and assess SOD risks aligned with ongoing process and technology changes to support ruleset design and security role design performed by Technology teams.
• Lead SOD analysis and review of monitoring controls for exception management.
• Lead SOD issue management to address identified gaps and remediate audit findings.
• Advise and support automation opportunities on application landscape and monitoring solutions.
• Build and maintain a proactive partnership with business and technology teams including awareness of SOX related requirements.

What you will need to be successful

• University degree in Information Technology, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Proven experience in IT SOX compliance requirements and frameworks e.g., Committee of Sponsoring Organisations (COSO), Control Objectives for Information Technologies (COBIT), Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) within oil and gas businesses or industries such as retail, asset-based business, manufacturing, or logistics.
• Experience in ABC and SOD control design and day to day management including gap identification and remediation.
• Experience in use of technology solutions to enhance the control environment e.g. continuous control monitoring, automation, use of AI agents.
• Strong impact, interpersonal and communication skills, a history of maintaining constructive working relationships. Ability to communicate, influence and challenge at different levels including VP / SVP levels.
• Strong organisation, process, and governance mentality, and work towards excellence.
• Ability to identify control risks within complex processes and advise on actions to mitigate risk.
• Rapid identify key issues in complex situation and makes the complex simple.
• Self-starter with proven capability to manage multiple priorities and with a strong track record of delivery.

Preferred education / certifications

• Accounting qualification (CA, ACA, CPA, CIMA, ACCA, etc.) or MBA.
• Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA).
• Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC).

Why join us?

At bp, we support our people to grow in a diverse and exciting environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity.

There are many aspects of our employees’ lives that are meaningful, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life. These benefits can include flexible working options, a generous paid parental leave policy, excellent retirement benefits, among others!

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

Reinvent your career as you help our business meet the challenges of the future. Apply now!

Travel Requirement

No travel is 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

Accounting policy, Accounting Processes and Financial Systems, Business process control, Business process improvement, Collaboration, Commercial Acumen, Digital Fluency, Financial Reporting, Influencing, Internal control and compliance, Risk Management, Stakeholder Engagement.

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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