Company Description

Here at bp pulse, we're energising the future of transportation by developing fast and convenient charging solutions for consumer and commercial electric vehicles. Over the course of more than 10 years, we have designed and developed innovative electric vehicle charging solutions that enable EV drivers to charge at home, at work and on the go. On our mission to make charging fast and hassle-free, our charging points have been used over 35 million times to enable around 200 million miles of zero tailpipe emission driving.

Job Description

• As a confident financial analyst, your role will provide analytical support to the Finance Planning & Performance team, and wider finance team, providing insights, updates and financial reporting outputs, having the ability to research through data to understand trends and insights that sit behind the financial results.

The overall purpose of this role is to:

• Play a leading role in the planning and forecasting cycles in bp Pulse, managing specific areas and coordinating the group consolidation and reporting  
• Provide weekly/monthly/ad hoc KPI reporting and performance updates/analysis
• Partnering cost stakeholders/budget owners across the business supporting with insights to actual spend and forecasting vulnerabilities and opportunities, covering both payroll and non-payroll expense.
• Month end cost allocations across the Network & Commercial business areas
• Become a super user in BP’s Financial Reporting systems (no prior experience required)
• Carry out financial and non-financial results reconciliations between systems and understand where differences have occurred so that they can be corrected.

Qualifications

You will be:

• A commercially minded financial analyst with experience of creating insights through data analysis. You will need:
  • Good attention to detail
  • Organised and methodical approach to work
  • Strong excel skills
  • Ability to analyse complex data and surface underlying trends to allow actionable insight by financial and non-financial stakeholders

• You should have good communication and stakeholder management skills, both spoken and written word, who is comfortable challenging the status quo
• Naturally inquisitive and capable of understanding the commercial aspects of the business and the impacts of them on the P&L/Balance Sheet and Cash flow
• No previous Power BI skills are required but are preferable, there will be a need to learn and develop skills in this space to facilitate management reporting and training will be provided
• Ability to roll sleeves up and get into the detail when required with a sense of one-team

Desirable criteria and qualifications:

• Experienced finance professional with previous experience in this area.

Additional Information

As an equal opportunity employer, we celebrate diversity and care about people. We would hope you will be like minded with a positive personality, energetic working style and for this role exceptional communicator who can work well within a multidisciplinary team.

You are a vital part of the electric future, start charging up your new career today!