Senior Finance Manager – Biofuels and Projects

This role is a member of the Biofuels Growth Leadership team and the Refining & Biofuels Finance Leadership Team. The bp Bioenergy Finance team also reports into this role.

Accountable for delivery of finance priorities within the bp Bioenergy and Biofuels Growth businesses, the role holder will enable them to meet objectives, both internally & externally.

You will play a key role in creating and delivering the business strategy and financial roadmap, including the assessment of risk. The role supports the business in understanding the impact that strategic and operational activities will have on financial outcomes and is accountable for intervening when delivery risk emerges.

The role provides finance expertise into business decision-making to create and protect sustainable value for bp. You will be required to collaborate across businesses, supporting functions to optimize and protect integrated value chains. This is an exciting opportunity to play a role in new and exciting business models - overseeing the full value chain – for example from sugar cane fields to production of ethanol and sugar itself!

Offering great exposure, you will regularly interact with senior C&P business leaders, senior C&P Finance leaders, as well as ST&S and the FP&A teams in the FBT.

• Support bp Bioenergy and the biofuels growth agenda with business insights while supporting the finance integration across multiple biofuels interfaces (particularly with ST&S and bp Bioenergy).
• Lead a small direct (largely London based) team as well as the finance team in bp Bioenergy.
• Provide indirect leadership across the business and functional finance teams for various global strategic activities while monitoring overall strategic momentum and financial delivery.
• Be responsible for the Biofuels Growth and bp Bioenergy Finance contributions to bp Processes - specifically GFOs, LTPs, BPRs and GPRs. Ensure timely business process compliance with good quality data to enable robust performance management and reporting.
• Work as finance partner for the SVP Biofuels Growth and SVP BP Bioenergy helping to maintain a robust financial framework that supports delivery & investment assurance while providing independent commercial insight.
• Accountable for overall coordination & development of new finance business activities for Biofuels Growth and BP Bioenergy, coordinating across the finance functions including teams such as business investment, ARC, Technology, Accounting etc.
• Accountable for leading complex finance projects with a view to simplification, efficiency and effectiveness.

• You will have a degree in Accounting/Finance or similar subject OR an alternative subject but with experience to support the Accounting/Finance technical capability requirement.

• Significant expertise across control, planning and performance, and broader commercial processes.
• Commercial competence, with an intuition for business - including understanding of integrated value chains and key regional dynamics.
• Experience in commercial finance, including planning, performance management, delivering business results, and supporting new business model implementation.
• Strong leadership, grounded in emotional intelligence, with an empowering and collaborative style.
• Proven ability to work effectively across large, global, culturally diverse teams.
• A visible role model for integrity, values, and positive behaviours.
• Strategic problem solver with the ability to see the big picture, anticipate risks (including financial impacts), and develop solutions aligned to business and financial objectives.
• Ability to navigate and drive strategic change at pace and handle ambiguity.
• Ability to set and drive the strategic direction for Finance, securing agreement from key partners.
• Proven ability to build capability, coach diverse teams, and drive high performance.
• Proven success in building a one‑team culture, fostering collaboration across Finance and the wider business.
• Strong judgement and ability to rapidly resolve key issues with the right level of alignment and support.
• Clear, concise communicator, able to build awareness and…