About bp
Our purpose is to deliver energy to the world, today and tomorrow. For over 100 years, bp has focused on discovering, developing, and producing oil and gas in the nations where we operate. We are one of the few companies globally that can provide governments and customers with an integrated energy offering. Delivering our strategy sustainably is fundamental to achieving our ambition to be a net zero company by 2050 or sooner!
Job Summary
The GA/ARC Senior Analyst will play a critical role in supporting retail accounting operations for bp’s Americas business, reporting to the Team Lead. The role requires strong subject matter expertise in retail accounting, reconciliations, month-end close, controls, and issue resolution, with the ability to manage complex accounting scenarios independently and provide guidance to analysts within the team. The incumbent will partner with cross-functional collaborators to ensure accurate financial reporting, strong governance, timely close delivery, and continuous process improvement in a dynamic shared services environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Act as a subject matter expert for M&C Americas Retail accounting processes, supporting accurate and timely accounting of retail transactions, reconciliations, and period-end close activities.
- Review and analyze high-volume, high-complexity retail accounting entries, ensuring completeness, accuracy, and compliance with internal policies and accounting standards.
- Perform detailed balance sheet reconciliations, investigate aged or unreconciled items, and drive timely resolution of exceptions with clear ownership and action tracking.
- Support month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close activities, ensuring adherence to close calendars, SLA timelines, and control requirements.
- Review work performed by analysts, provide technical guidance, and act as the first level of escalation for complex accounting and process-related queries.
- Develop strong understanding of retail business flows, store operations, inventory, cash, sales, and related financial impacts to effectively support business and partner teams.
- Strengthen and implement internal controls, including four-eye review, variance analysis, exception monitoring, and compliance checks to ensure a robust governance environment.
- Identify root causes of process breaks, control gaps, and recurring reconciling items; drive corrective actions and sustainable process improvements.
- Partner with internal stakeholders including business teams, controllership, operations, technology, and offshore/onshore teams to resolve issues and improve service delivery.
- Leverage ERP and digital tools, including PDI and reporting/analytics platforms, to improve process efficiency, data transparency, and decision support.
- Support audits, provide documentation for control evidence, and ensure readiness for internal and external review requirements.
- Contribute to automation, standardization, and continuous improvement initiatives by finding opportunities to simplify manual tasks and enhance process resilience.
- Demonstrate strong ownership, vitality, and accountability while handling challenging priorities in a fast-paced environment.
Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Commerce, or a related field; professional accounting qualification or progress toward one will be an advantage.
- Relevant experience in retail accounting, financial control, record-to-report, or shared services finance operations, preferably supporting Americas or multi-geography businesses.
- Strong understanding of general ledger accounting, reconciliations, journal entries, accruals, period-end close, and financial reporting processes.
- Hands-on experience in identifying, investigating, and resolving accounting exceptions, reconciling items, and process issues independently.
- Prior experience working in a subject matter expert capacity or in a role involving review, guidance, or mentoring of junior team members.
- Solid understanding of retail accounting systems and ERP platforms; experience with PDI ERP will be strongly preferred.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to interpret large data sets, identify trends, and translate findings into actionable insights.
- Advanced proficiency in Excel and comfort working with reporting, visualization, and automation tools to improve process outcomes.
- Strong understanding of internal controls, compliance, audit readiness, and risk mitigation within finance operations.
- Effective communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to interact confidently across teams and geographies.
- Proven ability to work independently, handle deadlines, and maintain high accuracy in a high-volume, deadline-driven environment.
- Continuous improvement perspective with demonstrated ability to support transformation, standardization, and digital adoption initiatives.
Shift Timings
3:00 PM to 12:00 AM IST (may extend during month-end close from WD1 to WD5 based on business requirements).
Why join bp:
At bp, we support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and challenging 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.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform crucial job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of
employment.
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We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, socioeconomic status, neurodiversity/neurocognitive functioning, veteran status or disability status. Individuals with an accessibility need may request an adjustment/accommodation related to bp’s recruiting process (e.g., accessing the job application, completing required assessments, participating in telephone screenings or interviews, etc.). If you would like to request an adjustment/accommodation related to the recruitment process, please contact us.
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