Senior Finance Manager, M&C Americas - Convenience Merchandising, Food & Beverage

bp • Chicago, IL

17d • $180,000 - $225,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

This Senior Finance Manager – Convenience Merchandising, Food & Beverage role is central to bp’s U.S. convenience retail business. It involves partnering with Merchandising leadership to enhance food and beverage financial performance, a key growth area for the business. This high-impact, high-visibility position offers regular interaction with senior M&C Americas leadership and directly influences critical decisions regarding pricing, assortment, supplier economics, and investments that boost store-level profitability and customer offer economics across bp’s company-operated sites. As a key member of the M&CA Embedded Finance Extended Leadership team, this role serves as the primary finance partner to Convenience Merchandising leadership, holding accountability for food and beverage financial performance across the U.S. network. It provides senior-level financial leadership and commercial decision support for the convenience retail merchandising portfolio, balancing commercial enablement with robust financial rigor in a dynamic retail setting. Collaboration with Merchandising, Operations, Supply Chain, and Strategy teams is essential to drive profitable growth, improve unit economics, and ensure disciplined capital and commercial decision-making for both ongoing activities and central initiatives. This includes supporting the ampm franchise expansion in the East of the Rockies.

Requirements

• Significant experience in commercial finance roles, with demonstrated ownership of planning, performance management, and delivery of complex cross-functional initiatives, within retail, supply, or consumer-facing environments.
• Strong commercial and financial competence within retail, convenience, food & beverage, or merchandising-led businesses, including understanding of key business drivers and the external landscape.
• Deep experience across governance and commercial decision support within large, complex operating models and multi-stakeholder environments.
• Ability to see the big picture, anticipate financial implications, and shape solutions in complex operating environments.
• Experience supporting cross-functional initiatives and transformation programmes.
• Considerable experience in a commercial business, covering financial management and leading performance outcomes.
• Acts as a trusted commercial partner rather than a pure control function.
• Demonstrates ownership, sound judgement, and constructive challenge.
• Builds strong cross-functional relationships and promotes a continuous improvement and simplification perspective.
• Strong problem-solving skills, including resolution of issues around key judgements, commercial options, and partner disputes.
• Ability to prioritise and manage competing demands across business, external partners, and central finance.
• Confident in speaking up, listening, and holding others to account in line with values, culture, and compliance expectations.
• Ability to lead through change and operate effectively in ambiguity.
• Clear and concise communicator, able to engage both finance and non-finance senior colleagues.
• Degree in Business, Economics and/or Finance, or equivalent experience.

Nice To Haves

• Skills: Accounting policy, Accounting policy, Accounting Processes and Financial Systems, Agility core practices, Agility tools, Analytical Thinking, Business Acumen, Business process control, Business process improvement, Collaboration, Commercial Acumen, Communication, Creativity and Innovation, Credit Management, Customer centric thinking, Data Analysis, Data visualization and interpretation, Decision Making, Digital Fluency, Financial Reporting, Influencing, Internal control and compliance, Management Reporting, Managing change, Presenting + 4 more

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end financial performance for food, beverage, and merchandise categories, including margin delivery, cost drivers, waste, and execution economics.
• Shape pricing, promotions, assortment, and supplier economics in partnership with Merchandising leadership to improve profitability and return on invested capital.
• Evaluate financial implications of pilots, rollouts, and optimization initiatives, ensuring value-accretive decisions before scale.
• Support and track the incremental economics of the bp Private Brand offering epic goods, including enhanced margin delivered by epic goods compared to National Brands and incremental value to bp and franchisees.
• Support the ampm franchise expansion across the East of the Rockies through rigorous financial analysis, unit economics, and investment decision support.
• Serve as the trusted finance thought-partner to Food & Beverage and broader Merchandising leadership.
• Develop financial models, scenario analysis, and risk assessments to support merchandising strategy and key trade-offs.
• Provide constructive challenge to assumptions and hold initiatives to account for value delivery.
• Lead forecasting, budgeting, and performance reviews for food and beverage categories, translating operational drivers into clear financial insight.
• Produce concise, executive-ready financial narratives for senior leadership and governance forums.
• Support long-range planning and scenario analysis aligned to merchandising and convenience retail strategy.
• Enhance forecasting, scenario analysis, and performance insight through the application of advanced analytics, automation, and AI-enabled tools, improving predictive capability and speed of decision-making.
• Ensure strong financial governance and control across merchandising initiatives, including safeguards against management override.
• Provide finance oversight for cross-functional projects, including benefits tracking and post-investment reviews.
• Maintain compliance with bp financial policies, controls, and internal governance requirements.
• Oversee rebate process ensuring complete and accurate financial representation of funds received from suppliers and payouts to franchisees and to company owned sites P&L.
• Lead, develop, and inspire finance resources supporting merchandising and food & beverage activities.
• Influence senior collaborators across Merchandising, Operations, Strategy, and Technology without direct authority.
• Represent Finance in steering committees, governance forums, and executive reviews.
• Act as a change leader supporting the transformation of Finance and the broader business, embedding standardized, insight-led ways of working that improve decision quality, pace, and accountability.

Benefits

• Competitive pay
• Bonuses
• Share options
• Flexible benefits
• Healthcare
• Retirement plans
• Paid time off
• Agile working
• Paid vacation (120 – 240 hours per year for full-time employees, 60 - 240 hours per year for part-time employees)
• 9 paid holidays per year
• 2 personal choice holidays
• Up to 8 weeks’ paid parental leave for birth or adoption of a child
• Discretionary annual bonus program
• Long-term incentive program
• Generous retirement benefits
• 401k matching program
• Pension for eligible employees
• Health insurance
• Vision insurance
• Dental insurance
• Life insurance
• Short-Term Disability
• Long-Term Disability

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior