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

$145k - $180k

Full-time

Entity:
Finance
Job Family Group:
Finance Group
Job Description:
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.
Key Accountabilities
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
Essential Experience
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)
Capabilities:
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.
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 ( 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.
How much do we pay (Base)? The anticipated base salary for this position is approximately between $145,000 and $180,000 USD annually, *Note that the pay range listed for this position is a genuinely expected and reasonable estimate of the range of possible base compensation at the time of posting.
This position offers paid vacation depending on your years of relevant industry experience and will range from 120 - 240 hours of vacation per year for full times employees (60 - 240 hours of vacation per year for part time employees). You will also be eligible for 9 paid holidays per year and 2 personal choice holidays. You may learn more about how we calculate paid vacation and view our generous vacation and holiday schedules at View email address on us.fitly.work. Bp has a parental leave policy as well, which offers up to 8 weeks' paid leave for the birth or adoption of a child. Learn more at View email address on us.fitly.work.
We offer a reward package to enable your work to fit with your life. These offerings include a discretionary annual bonus program, long-term incentive program, and generous retirement benefits that include a 401k matching program. These benefits may include a pension for eligible employees. You may learn more about our generous benefits at View email address on us.fitly.work.
As part of bp's wellbeing package, bp offers access to health, vision, and dental insurance, as well as life and Short-Term Disability and Long-Term Disability. You may learn more about our generous benefits at View email address on us.fitly.work.
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:
Accounting for financial instruments, Accounting policy, Accounting Processes and Financial Systems, Analytical Thinking, Analytics, Business process control, Business process improvement, Commercial Acumen, Commercial assurance for external reporting, Communication, Creativity and Innovation, Credit Management, Customer centric thinking, Data Analysis, Digital Fluency, Financial Reporting, Internal control and compliance, Risk Management
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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.
If you are selected for a position and depending upon your role, your employment may be contingent upon adherence to local policy. This may include pre-placement drug screening, medical review of physical fitness for the role, and background checks.

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