Sr Finance Control Advisor, Americas - Refining, Biofuels & Hydrogen

BP•Chicago, IL

5d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Finance Portfolio Control Advisor supports the portfolio’s control agenda, acting as the central integrator across the Refining and Biofuels businesses based in Chicago. The role provides expert guidance, oversight, and challenge to on-site finance and control teams, ensuring a consistent, robust, and future-fit control environment. It drives alignment in accounting, strengthens balance sheet integrity, and enables high-quality decision-making through disciplined governance. The role ensures that controls are standardized, scalable, and embedded, while supporting business evolution and transformation.

Requirements

Extensive experience in financial controls, accounting, and compliance frameworks within complex, multi-entity or international environments
Strong technical expertise in operational and manufacturing accounting, including inventory valuation, impairment, balance sheet assurance, and close processes
Experience operating in a portfolio, regional, or central oversight role, influencing and guiding multiple sites or business units
Proven track record of influencing and challenging senior stakeholders and site-based finance teams in a matrix organization
Experience driving standardization, control improvement, and assurance programs across multiple entities
Strong understanding of end-to-end finance processes and control frameworks (e.g. ICFR) and how they operate in practice
Experience supporting or leading ERP implementations, finance transformation, or large-scale process change initiatives
Background in capital-intensive industries (refining, energy, manufacturing or similar)
Control leadership and standard setting. Ability to define and embed control frameworks and accounting standards across a portfolio, ensuring consistency, compliance, and scalability across multiple sites.
Technical excellence and judgement. Applies deep technical accounting and controls expertise to complex issues, providing clear direction and robust, risk-based judgement.
Influence in a matrix environment. Leads through expertise rather than authority, effectively influencing site controllers, finance leaders, and cross-functional stakeholders to drive alignment and outcomes.
Independent challenge and assurance. Provides objective oversight, ensuring strong governance while enabling effective and timely decision-making.
Digital and data orientation. Leverages data, analytics, and digital tools to enhance control monitoring, insight, and efficiency.

Responsibilities

Act as the central control advisor for the refining portfolio, providing insights, guidance, oversight, and challenge to site controllers and finance teams
Drive consistent accounting treatment across sites, defining standards, resolving differences, and ensuring adoption
Provide portfolio-level oversight of the control environment, identifying systemic risks, trends, and control gaps, then driving remediation & standardization
Act as escalation point and technical expert for complex areas (e.g. Inventory Valuation, COSA, NRV, impairment assessments, JV structures, strategic arrangements
Coordinate and guide portfolio wide quarter close processes, ensuring consistency and alignment to ICFR standards
Support leadership on investment decisions, new business scenarios, and complex financial initiatives, ensuring appropriate control design and governance
Support system implementations and transformation programs, ensuring strong controls through change
Provide relevant support for projects and broader business needs as requested