Senior Finance Advisor, Refining, Cherry Point

BP Americas, Inc.; Blaine (WA); Hybrid; USD 145,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Vacation time

Public holidays

Parental leave

Health insurance

Retirement benefits

Job summary

BP Americas, Inc. seeks a Senior Finance Advisor, Refining to partner with key leaders, shape strategy, and drive performance across the refinery.

The role serves as deputy to the Refinery Senior Finance Manager, focusing on value-led, technology-enabled finance and integrated decision support. The role combines strategic finance, FP&A, and commercial insight in a high-impact, cross-functional setting with hybrid work options.

Qualifications

• Experience in planning, analyzing, or managing performance to support business goals.
• Strong commercial and economic understanding with investments/business cases.
• Experience managing senior partners in complex matrix environments.
• Capital-intensive or operational business experience; refinery experience preferred but not essential.

Responsibilities

• Drive margin, cost, and capital efficiency improvements through structured interventions.
• Lead Vulnerabilities and Opportunities process to support annual plan delivery.
• Ensure end-to-end value optimization across decisions.
• Own relationships with performance/superintendent and budget holders.
• Serve as integration point between business and FP&A.
• Act as deputy to Refinery Senior Finance Manager.
• Represent Finance at Cost / Capex / GM steercos.
• Enable insight-driven discussions for integrated value.

Skills

Commercial acumen

Business partnering

Strategic thinking

Digital fluency

Data analysis

Decision making

Communication

Tools

Accounting software

Financial systems

Data visualization

Job description

The Senior Finance Advisor, Refining acts as a deputy for the Refinery Senior Finance Manager, partnering with key business collaborators to shape strategy, drive performance, and unlock sustainable value. The role represents the future of finance—value-led, technology-enabled, and simplified—integrating financial insight, operational performance, and digital capability to support better, faster decision-making. This is a high-impact leadership role, with exposure across strategy, operations, and performance.

Key accountabilities

• Support the business to drive margin, cost, and capital efficiency improvements through structured interventions
• Drive a structured Vulnerabilities and Opportunities process, framing choices for the leadership team to support delivery of the annual plan
• Ensure decisions reflect end-to-end value optimization, not siloed metrics
• Trusted business partner, owning relationships with the performance superintendent, business development superintendent and material refinery budget holders
• Integration point between the business and FP&A team
• Deputy to the Refinery Senior Finance Manager
• Represent Finance at key decision-making forums, e.g. Cost / Capex / GM steercos
• Enable aligned, insight-driven discussions that support integrated value for bp

Essential experience

• Individuals should have experience in one or more of the following areas:
• Experience in planning, analyzing, or managing performance, including long-term planning, budgeting, forecasting, or tracking outcomes to support delivery of business goals.
• Strong commercial and economic understanding, with experience developing business cases, evaluating investments, or supporting project delivery.
• Experience in managing senior partners and delivering value in complex matrix environments
• Broad understanding of how different processes and functions connect to deliver business outcomes and enable effective decision-making
• Experience in capital-intensive or operational businesses, i.e. refinery experience preferred but not essential

Capabilities

• Commercial acumen: Understands the operational and market drivers of performance, translating these into actionable insights to optimize margins, costs, and capital allocation. Identifies value creation opportunities and trade-offs aligned to broader business objectives.
• Business partnering and influencing: Builds trusted relationships across leadership, FP&A, and broader stakeholders. Translates financial insight into clear, actionable recommendations, enabling aligned, value-focused decision-making in complex, matrix environments
• Strategic and performance mindset: Connects financial, operational, and strategic drivers to frame choices, simplify complexity, and drive delivery of business outcomes.
• Digital and transformation orientation: Leverages data, digital tools, and finance transformation approaches to enhance insight, improve efficiency, and support faster, more informed decision-making.

Why join us

At bp, we support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and ambitious environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity. We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment in which everyone is respected and treated fairly. There are many aspects of our employees’ lives that are meaningful, so we offer benefits ( https://exploreyourbenefits.com/landing.html) to enable your work to fit with your life. These benefits can include flexible working options, a generous paid parental leave policy, and 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.

How much do we pay (Base)?

The anticipated base salary for this position is approximately between $145,000 and $180,000 USD annually, *Note that the pay range listed for this position is a genuinely expected and reasonable estimate of the range of possible base compensation at the time of posting. This position offers paid vacation depending on your years of relevant industry experience and will range from 120 – 240 hours of vacation per year for full times employees (60 - 240 hours of vacation per year for part time employees). You will also be eligible for 9 paid holidays per year and 2 personal choice holidays. You may learn more about how we calculate paid vacation and view our generous vacation and holiday schedules at benefits@bp. Bp has a parental leave policy as well, which offers up to 8 weeks’ paid leave for the birth or adoption of a child. Learn more at benefits@bp. We offer a reward package to enable your work to fit with your life. These benefits may include a pension for eligible employees. You may learn more about our generous benefits at benefits@bp. As part of bp’s wellbeing package, bp offers access to health, vision, and dental insurance, as well as life and Short-Term Disability and Long-Term Disability. You may learn more about our generous benefits at benefits@bp.

Travel requirement

No travel is expected with this role

Relocation assistance

Relocation may be negotiable for this role

Remote type

This position is a hybrid of office/remote working

Skills

• Accounting policy
• Accounting policy
• Accounting Processes and Financial Systems
• Agility core practices
• Agility tools
• Analytical Thinking
• Business Acumen
• Business process control
• Business process improvement
• Collaboration
• Commercial Acumen
• Communication
• Creativity and Innovation
• Credit Management
• Customer centric thinking
• Data Analysis
• Data visualization and interpretation
• Decision Making
• Digital Fluency
• Financial Reporting
• Influencing
• Internal control and compliance
• Management Reporting
• Managing change
• Presenting {+ 4 more} .

Legal Disclaimer

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of protected characteristics like race, religion, color, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, 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. We’re an international energy company with global scale, ambitious plans and a team of brilliant people delivering energy to the world, today and tomorrow.