Planning & Performance Manager

Job Description:

Entity: Finance

Job Family Group: Finance Group

Job Description:
To support the performance management agenda including gross margin for US Retail channel.
The Performance Analyst will need to maintain a proactive business partnering relationship between sales, pricing, demand and finance embedded teams providing them with commercial support and market intelligence, and will develop and maintain a 'one team' relationship with the ARC and FBT teams.
Job Summary
Business Partnering and Performance Insights
* Establish & maintain a proactive business partnering relationship between between sales, pricing, demand and embedded Finanace teams to ensure underlying performance is well understood, to proactively challenge and propose performance improvements, and to monitor & investigate anomalies & trends.
* Supports the Performance Management agenda for the entities in scope, ensuring robust & timely forecasts and deliver MI analysis and commentary for the leadership team.
* Partners with other business stakeholders to provide detailed analysis of focus areas of performance, providing insights and interventions and associated analysis ensuring integrity & sufficient challenge.
Performance Reporting
* Translates financial and operational performance for the businesses and evaluates and articulates the underlying delivery of actuals vs. latest forecasts on a monthly basis to incorporate into the plan and current outlook for the year.
* Provides input of the recharge process for the entities, ensuring costs are recharged to countries fairly and accurately.
* Investigates .
* Support the ARC teams, in completing Close activities.
* Support the drive for continuous improvement in MI to ensure integrity & accuracy and to meet advances in business requirements.
Planning and Forecasting
* Drive rolling forcasts and planning processes
* Data analysis and modelling: collect and analyise historical data and trends for building statistical trends
* Cross- teams collaboration: work wiith sales, demand planning, pricing, and supply chain to gather insights and achieve consensus on all assumtions that to into planning process
* Process improvement: Indentify root causes of forecasting errors and adjust the process
Ad-hoc analysis requirements
* Deep dive investgations on rebates, IFOT, pricing or Cogs
* Commercial modelling for promos or new bids

Qualifications
* University degree or above
english C1
* Part qualified or qualified in a recognised national or international professional accountancy qualification e.g. CIMA, ACCA, ACA, CPA.
* Absolute fluency in "business English" is mandatory.
* Able to analyse and summarise complex information and prepared to drive performance improvements together with the business.
* Ability to quickly assess areas requiring attention and/or intervention, with a strong demonstration of business partnering to drive business performance.
* Focuses effort and prioritises work to deliver business value; must be self-starter, highly motivated with the ability to communicate with all levels of the organisation.
* Looks for ways to do things better, faster and more efficiently.
* Builds networks to enhance effectiveness and share knowledge - a team player.
Skills& competencies:

* Business & Commercial Acumen
* Business Performance Management & Reporting
* Performance Insights
* Risk & Compliance Management

* Compliance & Control

* Financial Accounting & Reporting

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* Performance Bias
* Partnership & Teamwork
* Innovation

Work Location & Shift Pattern

Santa Fe offices - 7:00am to 4:00pm
Hybrid - 2 days remote and 3 days in the office

Why join us

At bp, we support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and ambitious 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 (https://exploreyourbenefits.com/landing.html) 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. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Travel RequirementNo travel is expected with this role

Relocation Assistance:This role is not eligible for relocation

Remote Type:This position is a hybrid of office/remote working

Skills:Analysis and modelling, Analytics, Commercial Acumen, Commercial performance management, Communication, Data visualization and interpretation, Financial Analysis, Integrated Planning, Investment appraisal, Performance management

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