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Role Synopsis
This role combines business development and commercial operations support, through commercial analysis, economic modelling, strategy and value optimization, governance, business planning, and supports important external relationships.

• bp’s Mauritania and Senegal business is one of the newest and most exciting of bp’s gas growth businesses - opening up new frontiers on the Africa Deepwater margin. This includes the innovative cross-border Greater Tortue Ahmeyim (GTA) project (the fastest Deepwater discovery to sanction LNG project in the world) and other potential ground-breaking projects
• The regional business is highly multifaceted and fast paced, with a number of projects. This role will focus primarily on business development and commercial operations activities, working closely with the Gas Growth business development teams and Senior Finance Managers. Key aspects of the role will be negotiation support, commercial analysis and economic modelling
• This role would suit someone looking to develop their commercial skills and insight to support a challenging business.

Key accountabilities

• In this role you will provide critical commercial support, working closely with the business development, concept development project and Finance teams
• Analytical support for gas growth activities and other commercial workstreams for Mauritania & Senegal business.
• Use economic models to perform accurate analysis and assessment of value, and comply with bp economic modelling standards assured by tax and treasury
• This role also includes support of wider Planning & Performance Management team deliverables, including joint venture support and business planning.

Essential Education

• Degree level education

Essential Experience & Job requirement

• Demonstrated ability to generate commercial insight, with strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Understanding and experience of investment governance and economic modelling
• Excellent interpersonal skills and comfortable in working reliably with people at all levels throughout the various functional areas of the organization
• Innovative attitude which embraces the opportunity to add value by devising innovative ways or solutions to overcome business hurdles
• Able to engage effectively as part of a team, absorbing new areas quickly and comfortable working autonomously, sometimes under high-paced work environment

Desirable Criteria

• Upstream oil and gas experience and/or experience of M&A/Financing evaluations
• MBA or other formally recognized accounting qualification (CFA, ACA, CIMA, ACMA) or studying towards this qualification.
• French speaker

Finance

Finance Group

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United Kingdom

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 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.‎

Intermediate

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, socioeconomic background, neurodiversity/neurocognitive functioning, 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, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodations.