Senior Finance Advisor, Refining, Cherry Point

bp • Blaine, WA

7d • $145,000 - $180,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

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.

Requirements

• 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.

Nice To Haves

• refinery experience

Responsibilities

• 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

Benefits

• flexible working options
• generous paid parental leave policy
• excellent retirement benefits
• paid vacation
• paid holidays
• personal choice holidays
• discretionary annual bonus program
• long-term incentive program
• generous retirement benefits
• 401k matching program
• pension for eligible employees
• health, vision, and dental insurance
• life and Short-Term Disability and Long-Term Disability

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed