Senior Finance Advisor, Refining, Cherry Point
About The Position
The Senior Finance Advisor, Refining acts as deputy to the Refinery Senior Finance Manager and partners with key business collaborators to shape strategy, drive performance, and unlock sustainable value. The role integrates financial insight, operational performance, and digital capability to support better, faster decision-making, with exposure across strategy, operations, and performance. The advisor supports the business in improving margin, cost, and capital efficiency; leads a structured Vulnerabilities and Opportunities process to frame choices for the leadership team; and helps ensure decisions optimize end-to-end value rather than siloed metrics. The role owns relationships with key refinery stakeholders, connects the business with FP&A, represents Finance at decision-making forums, and enables insight-driven discussions that support integrated value for bp.
Requirements
- Experience in planning, analyzing, or managing performance, including long-term planning, budgeting, forecasting, or tracking outcomes to support business goals.
- Strong commercial and economic understanding, with experience developing business cases, evaluating investments, or supporting project delivery.
- Experience managing senior partners and delivering value in complex matrix environments.
- Broad understanding of how processes and functions connect to deliver business outcomes and enable effective decision-making.
- Capabilities in commercial acumen, business partnering and influencing, strategic and performance thinking, and digital and transformation orientation.
Nice To Haves
- Experience in a capital-intensive or operational business; refinery experience is preferred but not essential.
Responsibilities
- Support improvements in margin, cost, and capital efficiency 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 rather than siloed metrics.
- Own relationships with the performance superintendent, business development superintendent, and material refinery budget holders.
- Serve as the integration point between the business and the FP&A team.
- Act as deputy to the Refinery Senior Finance Manager.
- Represent Finance at key decision-making forums, including Cost, Capex, and GM steercos.
- Enable aligned, insight-driven discussions that support integrated value for bp.
Benefits
- Flexible working options
- Paid parental leave
- Retirement benefits, including a 401(k) matching program and potentially a pension for eligible employees
- Paid vacation of 120–240 hours per year for full-time employees, depending on relevant industry experience
- Nine paid holidays per year and two personal choice holidays
- Discretionary annual bonus program
- Long-term incentive program
- Health insurance
- Vision insurance
- Dental insurance
- Life insurance
- Short-term disability coverage
- Long-term disability coverage
- Reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
