Senior Finance Advisor, Refining, Cherry Point

Entity

Finance

Finance Group

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.

• 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

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

• 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.

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 ( ) 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…