Senior Finance Control Advisor, M&C South Africa

Job title : Senior Finance Control Advisor, M&C South Africa

Job Location : Gauteng, Johannesburg

Deadline : May 18, 2025

Job Description :

• The Advisor will support the Senior ARC Manager who will work closely with Vice Presidents (and Senior Vice Presidents) of Accounting Reporting and Control to drive the central finance strategy and policy and be a trusted advisor to the Finance and Business Leadership teams. The Advisor will work closely with the local finance and business team to craft and deploy our finance strategy and policies.
• Accounting, Reporting and Compliance impacts compliance and control environment across all bp functions and business areas, ensuring that bp maintains its license to operate by remaining compliant.

About bp

• 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.

Key Roles and Responsibilities

• Support the team in developing finance-wide strategies, guidelines, and policies to ensure compliance with our Internal Control over Financial Reporting framework.
• Work closely with relevant finance teams and lead delivery on control deliverables for the bpSA leadership team and Board.
• Provide context and mentorship to other finance teams, including supporting interpretation of policy requirements and ad hoc requests.
• Work closely with business and finance teams to understand risks and provide mentorship and direction for mitigating risks in accordance with Group Risk framework.
• Support the Senior ARC Manager in leading the transformation of ARC in alignment with the new operating model.
• Process experience across Accounting, Reporting and Control processes.
• Breadth of knowledge across key finance and business processes.
• Aware of key internal policies and external standards (existing and emerging) across the role scope.
• Deep technical accounting knowledge and the application thereof.
• Experience with business strategy execution finance functional support.
• Deep understanding of the principles of continuous improvement & process excellence.
• Experience within the relevant business model, understanding of the key business drivers and emerging external landscape. Able to support the strategic direction of the segment and influence key internal and external stakeholders within this context.
• Business / commercial acumen across core bp businesses and understanding of the coordinated value chains within, including understanding the key regional dynamics.
• Strong level of awareness of the local regulatory frameworks in which the business teams operate.
• Have the vital skills and ability to build capability, coach a diverse group of team members and drive performance without direct team accountability.
• A passion for working with cross culture teams, inspiring and motivating people to deliver results without direct team accountability. Support Senior Advisor in developing future talent pools both within embedded and FBT teams.
• Support a one-team culture across key Finance teams, building collaborative relationship with FBT teams.
• Working closely with each function understanding strategic context and support required. Setting the ARC focus areas based on the partnership with business.
• Clear and concise communicator – both verbal communication and also ability to prepare presentations to frame purposeful discussions.
• Promotes a continuous improvement culture – eliminating interfaces and duplications where possible, simplifying activities, embracing digital automation, and applying new digital skills to enable faster, more focused decision making.
• Allocation of resources, working with a longer-term view to achieve company strategic objectives, strong decision making abilities and able to balance competing priorities.

Job Requirements and Qualifications

• Minimum Education: Degree level or equivalent.
• 8+ years of relevant financial reporting, commercial performance or internal control experience.
• Strong technical accounting skills.
• Adaptable, ability to network and build effective relationships with proven integration skills across Finance and non-Finance teams.
• Required Licenses / Certifications: CPA / CA / CIMA or equivalent accounting qualification.