Senior Finance Advisor, Refining, Cherry Point

BP PLC; Blaine (WA); Hybrid; USD 145,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401k matching

Discretionary annual bonus

Long-term incentive program

Retirement benefits

Paid vacation 120–240 hours/year

9 paid holidays

2 personal choice holidays

Parental leave

Job summary

BP PLC is seeking a Senior Finance Advisor for Refining in Blaine, WA, hybrid office/remote. The role partners with business leaders to shape strategy, drive performance, and unlock sustainable value across the refinery.

You will lead end-to-end financial insight, capital allocation, and digital-enabled decision support. Responsibilities include managing a Vulnerabilities and Opportunities process, partnering with FP&A, and serving as deputy to the Refinery Senior Finance Manager in

Qualifications

• Experience in planning, analyzing, or managing performance including long-term planning, budgeting, forecasting.
• Strong commercial understanding with investment/business case experience.
• Ability to influence senior partners in a matrix environment.

Responsibilities

• Support margin, cost, and capital efficiency improvements through structured interventions.
• Drive a vulnerabilities and opportunities process for leadership decision-making.
• Represent Finance in key decision forums and act as deputy to the Refinery Senior Finance Manager.

Skills

Commercial acumen

Business partnering

Strategic thinking

Digital fluency

Data analysis

Financial reporting

Management reporting

Internal control

Tools

Accounting policy

Accounting processes and Financial Systems

Agility core practices

Agility tools

Data visualization

Job description

## Senior Finance Advisor, Refining, Cherry PointApply: This position is a hybrid of office/remote working: United States of America - Washington - Blaine: Full time: Posted 3 Days Ago: End Date: September 15, 2026 (4 days left to apply): RQ115136**Entity:**Finance**Job Family Group:**Finance Group**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 [e-mail] offer a reward package to enable your work to fit with your life. These offerings include a discretionary annual bonus program, long-term incentive program, and generous retirement benefits that include a 401k matching program. These benefits may include a pension for eligible employees. You may learn more about our generous benefits at [e-mail] 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.**About bp:****Finance**Join us in a crucial time of transition. We are bringing all of our finance and procurement activities for the group into one place, enabling better work.For you this means working with us on:**Compliance** – efficiently delivering external reporting requirements to ensure we continue to meet our regulatory obligations in all jurisdictions, supported by a robust control environment across all three lines of defence.**Stewardship** – laying out a robust finance framework and providing ongoing management of the balance sheet and portfolio execution, supported by effective advocacy to the market.**Performance** – facilitating the effective allocation of capital, development of business plans and coordination of business performance interventions to ensure a consistent delivery between strategic aspirations, operational forecasts and delivered outcomes. Furthermore, you will be responsible for value creation through mergers and acquisition-led deals, commercial negotiations and integration of business opportunities.**Transformation** – driving digital transformation (centralising, digitising, optimising) across all elements of the finance entity to achieve sector-leading cost performance.