Wells Business Auditor

bp; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

bp is seeking a talented individual for the Wells Business Auditor role in Internal Audit, focusing on delivering risk-based audits to enhance internal controls. This position offers developmental opportunities with in-house training to build leadership and audit skills and requires an engineering background and willingness to travel.

Benefits

Life and health insurance

Medical care package

Learning opportunities

Social communities and networks

Qualifications

• Suitably qualified professional with relevant engineering degree and industry experience.
• Broad experience gained from engineering, maintaining, supporting the operation of wells either onshore or offshore.

Responsibilities

• Understand relevant bp risks and controls with insights from audit testing.
• Conduct audits, providing impactful insights to senior management.
• Travel to bp's global operations as necessary.

Skills

Analytical Thinking

Risk Management

Stakeholder Engagement

Digital fluency

Internal Auditing

Education

Relevant engineering degree

Job description

Entity:
Finance

Job Family Group:
Audit 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!

Wells Business Auditor

Role Synopsis

Internal Audit delivers a program of risk-based audits to provide impactful insights on bp's system of internal controls for senior leadership and the bp Board.

We are a global and diverse team of ~120 people offering exceptional opportunities to make a difference to how bp manages its principal risks, broaden experience and business knowledge and to practice leadership skills, including influencing senior management.

Internal Audit (IA) is looking to recruit a talented individual for a secondment into the Business Auditor scheme for a period of two to three years. The individual must have a background in wells engineering or operations.

The secondment is a development opportunity, which must be agreed with your 'home' business and entered on the basis that the selected individual rotates back to their home business at an agreed point in the third year of the scheme. The scheme requires the selected individual's 'home' business to track their progress during the assignment. On completion of the assignment, the 'home' business must facilitate the next career move for the individual.

The role involves being a team member, and potentially an audit lead, for audits covering wells risks and may support the broader program covering safety and operational, subsurface, projects, security and crisis-management, and non-operated joint ventures risks. The business auditor role works with teams of auditors to plan and deliver audits with the aim of providing impactful risk-based insights. The role requires business travel to bp's global operations, including bp offices, and offshore facilities, as appropriate. IA operates on a principle of eight fieldwork blocks per year which may include periods of up to three weeks away from home. To plan and prepare for travel, auditors are aware of their audit assignment's months in advance.

No prior audit experience needed. IA will provide in-house training and coaching to help develop and practice audit and leadership skills. The role will also contribute to the evolution of IA practices through transformation activities.

Key Accountabilities

Audit accountabilities:

• Understand relevant bp risks and controls and bp's evolving business.
• Effectively engage with the businesses, internal stakeholders, the audit team and bp leaders.
• Apply subject matter expertise to deliver impactful insights through delivery of high-quality audit testing, analysis, written and business communications.
• Travel as needed (likely around 25% of the time) including offshore, as appropriate.
• Apply, develop and grow your technical, digital and leadership skills.
• Provide support and objective feedback to other IA staff.

Other accountabilities:

• Embracing the use of data and digital auditing techniques.
• Support IA's evolution through participating in continuous improvement and change programmes, audit programme planning and capability development.
• Role model bp's code of conduct, 'who we are' beliefs and bp's safety leadership principles. Raise potential conflicts of interest associated with any work requests.
• Maintain linkage to the home business - meeting with sponsor and other key business personnel, as appropriate.
• Meet at least annually with sponsor to review progress and return to home business.

Essential Education

Suitably qualified professional with relevant engineering degree and industry experience.

Essential Experience and Job Requirements

• Broad experience gained from engineering, operating, maintaining, supporting the operation of wells either onshore or offshore.
• English language skills.
• Written and verbal communication skills, able to resolve and deliver clear messages.
• Experience working with, and positively influencing, teams and relationships in a range of settings.
• Demonstrate curiosity, business acumen and analytical thinking.
• Ability and willingness to secure offshore travel certification and travel offshore via helicopter or boat.

Desirable Criteria

• 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.
• Self-starting, inclusive teammate with capacity to support colleagues and provide honest constructive feedback.
• Data-driven critical thinking skills with a passion for continuous improvement, simplification and efficiency.

Location

This role can be located on a 60/40 basis in any of the following bp office locations:

• Sunbury, UK
• Aberdeen, UK
• Baku, AZ
• Houston, USA

Additional Information

At bp, we provide the following environment and benefits to you:

• A company culture where we respect our diverse and unified teams, where we are proud of our achievements and where fun and the attitude of giving back to our environment are highly valued

• Possibility to join our social communities and networks

• Learning opportunities and other development opportunities to craft your career path

• Life and health insurance, medical care package

• And many other benefits.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, 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 or interview process, perform crucial job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Don't hesitate to get in touch with us to request any accommodations.

Travel Requirement
Up to 25% 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, Audit Processing, Common process for wells activities, Digital fluency, Influencing, Internal Auditing, Managing change, Managing volatility, Negotiating, Organizational knowledge, Organizational Savvy, Process support for wells, 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 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.