Investment Advisor

Job Description

Job Profile Summary Role Synopsisbp is reimagining energy for people and our planet with an ambition to be a net zero company by 2050 or sooner. Resource allocation and deploying ~$15 billion of capital annually across new low carbon businesses along with traditional businesses is key to deliveringbps strategy. As an investment advisor within the Investment Governance team in Finance Planning & Performance Management you will play a critical role in evaluating the companys most material and strategic investments. You will see the company through itsinvestments and strategy while sharing and also building commercial, digital, and leadership skills. You will work closely with project teams, policy makers, executives and practitioners to ensure investments are balanced, fair and transparent, and compliantwith bps investment policies. You will also play a pivotal role supporting bps businesses in the silent run of the group investment process while initiating and delivering improvements to simplify and transform the investment governance process.Key accountabilities

• Manage material investment cases (>$50m and up) across the Group through executive reviews including assuring cases are compliant with investment policies and writing briefs on key points for EVPs.
• Support, guide and build the capability of the investment community and practitioners to develop compliant investment cases maintaining an extensive network of contacts in regions and central teams
• Review and assure underlying economic models to test compliance with economic evaluation methodology.
• Identify, prioritize, lead and deliver opportunities to simplify, digitize, harmonize and transform investment processes working with agile methods (Azure DevOps - ADO digital tooling and daily team huddles).
• Support various investment governance team activities including maintaining our investment lookahead for executives, key investment price set updates, and a variety of investment guidance and best practice documents.

Job Advert Essential Education

• Bachelors degree in business, engineering, or similar technical degree

Essential Experience & Job requirement

• Commercial acumen - Understanding of the key factors that generate and sustain value, most likely gained through working in a business facing or central finance, commercial and planning role (8+ yrs).
• Financial competency - Understand economic evaluation (discounted cash flow, balance sheet and profit and loss statements, accounting and financial principles). Experience developing investment documents and/or building economic evaluations preferred.
• Digital competency - Confident user of Microsoft products; Power Platform experience and exposure to Python based financial or economic models preferred.
• Influence - Able to work at all levels of the organization sharing requirements, solving problems, tackling opportuntities and managing conflict in a global business environment. This includes having the confidence to challenge peers and senior staff standingup for what is right.
• Communication - Able to succinctly communicate issues and ideas (verbally or in writing) with the ability to make complex subject matter relatable/understandable.
• Self Starter - Action oriented with the abililty to manage conflicting priorities, work independently and drive multiple initiatives to conclusion.

The Investment Governance team works closely with a wide variety of practitioners and stakeholders across all bp businesses:

• Business leaders, project managers and team members
• Executives (EVPs, SVPs of businesses and SVPs in Finance)
• Investment Policy, Mergers & Acquisitions and Business Development teams
• Finance and planning and performance managers and teams
• Group technical experts and enablers (treasury, tax, risk, sustainability, real estate etc.)

The Investment Governance team operates as a small agile team that is geographically dispersed. Each person brings unique skills and perspectives and we benefit from each others experiences to tackle challenging issues and questions. Our agile approach allowsus to share novel investment cases and continuous improvement opportunities while providing support so individuals can share or build commercial acumen, technical evaluation skills, digital capability and leadership and influencing skills. Our working agreementallows us to live bps values and we care for each other respecting each persons need for work life harmony whilst playing to win and being purposeful in creating a great working environment.Entity FinanceJob Family Group Finance GroupRelocation available NoTravel required NoTime Type Full timeCountry United KingdomAbout BP FINANCEJoin 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:Complianceefficiently 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.Stewardshiplaying out a robust finance framework and providing ongoing management of the balance sheet and portfolio execution, supported by effective advocacy to the market.Performancefacilitating 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 deliveredoutcomes. Furthermore, you will be responsible for value creation through mergers and acquisition-led deals, commercial negotiations and integration of business opportunities.Transformationdriving digital transformation (centralising, digitising, optimising) across all elements of the finance entity to achieve sector-leading cost-performance.Legal disclaimer 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/neurocognitivefunctioning, 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 benefitsand privilege