The posting
Entity:
Finance
Job Family Group:
Finance Group
Job Description:
This is an opportunity to join bp Treasury and play an active role at the centre of bp’s relationships with the financial community whose support underpins our strategy. bp is focused on becoming a simpler, stronger and more valuable company: strengthening the balance sheet, simplifying the portfolio, investing with discipline, driving operational excellence and building a culture of high performance and accountability. How bp's banks, debt investors and credit rating agencies understand and support that journey directly shapes the company’s financial resilience, credit standing and flexibility to invest through the cycle.
Reporting to the Head of Banking & External Relations, you will support bp's relationships with its banking partners, fixed income investors and credit rating agencies. You'll represent bp externally, telling a clear and credible story about its strategy, performance and financial framework. You'll also bring market insight back to senior leaders on how the financial community views bp's delivery.
The role reaches well beyond the immediate team. You'll connect bp's financial partners, with teams across Group Treasury and the wider business, making sure the company extracts the full value of its relationships. It is an excellent platform for building broad corporate finance and capital markets expertise, with real insight to senior Treasury leadership, the CFO's office, Investor Relations, Supply, Trading & Shipping and Strategy & Sustainability.
Key Accountabilities
The role has scope to support across a broad set of accountabilities. How these are distributed across the team will vary over time and through prioritisation.
Global Corporate & Investment Banks
- Support day-to-day relationships with an assigned portfolio of relationship banks.
- Monitor and help secure banking services and credit capacity needed by our businesses, including standby facilities, business-level financing and trading exposures.
- Understand how banks' credit policies and regulatory limits affect their ability to support bp.
- Identify bp's future banking needs as the portfolio evolves, including divestments, partnerships and growth opportunities, and direct opportunities across the bank group.
- Advise banks on bp's priorities and where they can add most value, and close down offers that don't contribute promptly and professionally.
- Run relationship governance, including bank remuneration monitoring, fee and capability assessments, relationship reviews and inform bank selection for specific transactions.
Debt Investors
- Act as a point of contact for debt investor enquiries.
- Coordinate and support bp's debt investor engagement programme, including roadshows, credit conferences and bilateral meetings with key investors.
- Build investor confidence in bp's balance sheet progress (including the wider view of total financial obligations), capital allocation priorities and credit story.
Engagement Across bp
- Integrate across Treasury teams, including liquidity and cash management, capital advisory and structured finance, and corporate finance teams.
- Partner with ST&S, including structured trade finance and FMT, to reflect their banking requirements, credit usage and priorities in relationship management.
- Collaborate with Investor Relations so messaging is consistent across debt and equity audiences and shared relationships are well handled.
- Connect with M&A and Strategy & Sustainability to stay current on bp's strategy and portfolio, and convey it accurately to external stakeholders.
Balance Sheet, Insight and Advisory
- Support Treasury's priorities on strengthening the balance sheet and leading the capital structure.
- Turn feedback from banks, investors and agencies into clear insights on themes, concerns and opportunities for senior leadership.
- Prepare briefing materials, market updates and executive communications for senior Treasury leadership, the CFO and other key stakeholders.
- Drive continuous improvement in relationship management, reporting, data analytics and engagement processes.
Essential Skills
- Confident communicator, both spoken and written, with senior internal and external partners.
- Broad awareness of and ability to speak to bp’s strategy
- Commercial curiosity and a real interest in how bp composes value across its portfolio.
- Consistent record to build relationships and influence without direct authority across organisational and geographic boundaries.
- Strong analytical skills and judgement: able to separate market noise from meaningful trends and turn them into practical recommendations.
- Strong organisational skills, and adaptable in a dynamic environment.
- Role model "who we are", bp's beliefs and a culture of high performance and accountability.
- Ability to coach and handle junior staff on a project basis.
Desirable
- Degree or equivalent experience in finance, economics, accounting, business or a related field.
- Relevant professional qualification (e.g. ACT/AMCT, ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CFA or equivalent experience
- Experience in treasury, corporate finance, capital markets, investment banking, investor relations, S&S, M&A, trading or a related subject area.
- Applicants from commercial, business or wider finance backgrounds with strong commercial judgement are encouraged to apply.
Why join us?
At bp, we support our people to grow in a diverse and exciting environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity.
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, 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 Requirement
Up to 10% travel should be 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:
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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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