Solution Manager

Entity:

Finance

Job Family Group:

IT&S Group

Job Description:

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!

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Additional Information

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, veteran status, or disability status.

About Role:

As Solution Manager (for General Ledger) you will use your business and procurement knowledge to design and govern the solution design of bp's template solutions for procurement as well as advising on the systems requirements relating to procurement templates.  In addition, you'll work closely with project deployment teams to ensure the successful implementation of bp's Global Financial template solution for general ledger across the globe.    
As design lead for the templates, you will ensure that solutions proposed by yourself and your team are
aligned to our template principles and that these drive standardization of processes and designs across
the bp group.

The Solution Manager collaborates with the Solution & Portfolio Senior Manager

Be the authority on template solutions within the functional area and participate in design authorities.
For approved demand, understand business requirements and complex business processes and scenarios and translate / break these down into a simplified set of requirements for which solutions can be investigated.
Design global standard solutions to meet business needs.
Explain concepts and solutions to technical and non-technical collaborators.
Prepare, review and/or approve functional specifications for solution design.
Lead the preparation, structure, and delivery of presentation materials for template familiarisation, template fit-gap, solution design, user training and team knowledge sharing.
Lead template fit gap and user training sessions.
Guide and constructive feedback to peer’s design work.
Identify, analyse, and delineate problems.
Investigate and resolve solution incidents and conduct root cause analysis.
Guide for designs that multi-functional areas in order to achieve end to end solutions that meet our customers' needs.
Advise others on integration considerations for interfaces coming from external systems.
Review and signoff cross-system cutover plans and integration testing scenarios.
For new designs or changes to design, provide testing scenarios to ensure the solution is robust.
Understand, adopt, and embrace agile principles and agile ways of working.
Where agreed, act as Solution Integration Lead for specific projects, providing support to the project teams and their interaction and solution needs with the rest of the solutions team.

Work with individuals to set performance goals in focus@bp and regularly check-in on goal progress.
Schedule regular 1:1 catch-ups with team members and provide support and coaching when needed.
Discuss career aspirations with team members and ensure everyone has a development plan with focus areas identified, including training needs and stretch assignments.

Essential Education & Experience
• Suitably qualified professional with degree or similar education background. • Accountancy qualification or working towards one (e.g. CIMA, CPA, ACA, ACCA) • Strong presentation and communication skills, including the ability to articulate complex processes and influence a wide range of partners. • Passion and experience in assembling business requirements and improving processes and systems.• General understanding of systems deployment activities.• Ability to work and collaborate within a virtualdistributed teamm environment.• Ability to prioritise effectively for yourself and the team.• 2+ years of experience of system design • Ability to learn and be the authority on template solutions.• Ability to formulate and solve problems.• Ability to build strong relationships with business collaborators, technical teams and delivery teams.

Desirable Criteria • 12+ years of relevant work experience with systems and process design. • Experience working in a multi-national organisation. • Experience of Agile ways of working  

Product Experience & Expertise
• Deep knowledge and significant experience of SAP FI processes and functionality including revaluation, reclassification and managing currencies • Significant experience with SAP and BW including a general working knowledge of transactional processes in an SAP environment. • Knowledge of integration with SAP MDG• Significant experience of system and process design and system deployment for General Ledger.

The enabling solutions team is part of the Digital Solutions & Transformation organisation in Global
Business Services. It provides services to all functions within Finance (R2R, Procurement, Customer,
Data) and partners with Global Process Owners and transformation delivery teams to drive the strategy and transformation agenda. It also supports the end user community through sustain processes, trainingsessions and user groups.
The team also works directly with other functions, enablers and businesses in bp, to provide solutions to their business needs and to enable their own transformation agendas.
Enabling solutions operates in a fully agile framework and is located primarily in the global business service hubs across three locations.

Travel Requirement

No travel is expected with this role

Relocation Assistance:

This role is eligible for relocation within country

Remote Type:

This position is a hybrid of office/remote working

Skills:

Analysis and modelling, Analysis and modelling, Analytics, Benchmarking, Business Performance, Business process improvement, Commercial Acumen, Commercial performance management, Communication, Cost Management, Data visualization and interpretation, Decision Making, Economic evaluation methodology, Economic modelling, Financial Analysis, Group Problem Solving, Integrated Planning, Investment appraisal, Long Term Planning, Management Reporting, Managing change, Measurement and metrics, Organizational Knowledge, Performance and planning, Performance management {+ 4 more}

Legal Disclaimer:

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of protected characteristics like race, religion, color, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, 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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