Job Description:

Overview:

We are a global energy business involved in every aspect of the energy system. We are working towards delivering light, heat and mobility to millions of people, every day. Our people want to play their part in solving the big, sophisticated challenges facing our world today and, guided by our bp values, are working to help meet the world's need for more energy while lowering carbon emissions. In our offices at Pune, we work in customer service, finance, accounting, procurement, HR services and other enabling functions - providing solutions as an integrated part of bp.

Would you like to discover how our diverse, hardworking people are leading the way in making energy cleaner and better - and how you can play your part in our outstanding team?

Join our team, and develop your career in an encouraging, forward-thinking environment!

About the role

As part of the Finance ERP Transformation journey, we are looking for a Deployment Data Manager, who will collaborate with the Finance ERP Transformation Deployment Senior Manager.

This new role will work with the business, FBT teams and project teams to ensure delivery of the finance data activities as part of the business entity deployment roadmaps !

In this role you will play a relevant role in coordinating and supporting data activities for deployment of the SAP S/4 HANA global financial business template, ensuring alignment to fit to standard data requirements and detailed interaction with other functions, redefining all bp finance data according to the S/4 finance template design.

You will work closely with the business and FBT teams for Finance to drive all data related activities for finance deployment and coordinate with the ERP Transformation Data Managers, to provide consistent and standard data designs to meet business requirements.

You will play an integration role for finance data requirements and activities with other project teams (asset management, procurement, order to cash...) to have coordinated data solutions.

You will be part of a deployment team working closing with process and change managers to cover all aspects needed for a successful deployment to our finance community !

What you will deliver

• You will act as Finance Data SME and work with the business and FBT users during deployment to cultivate adoption and understanding of the new global financial template underpinned by a global data design.
• You will act as Finance Data SME and work with the business and FBT users during deployment to cultivate adoption and understanding of the new global financial template underpinned by a global data design.
• You will engage with the Finance CDO and GPO teams to identify any gaps, queries or concerns raised by the business users related to data requirements and ensuring these are accurately assembled and addressed.
• Work with procurement, order to cash and asset management data teams to bring end to end solutions underpinned by standardised data to the business and address data integration needs.
• Partner with the Deployment leads to support all data related project activities for finance.
• Support business data activities through the different phases of the project to ensure data is streamlined, enriched and transformed to meet the new Finance data design standards for S/4.
• Provide the business with the tools, analysis and details needed to handle their data to be crafted and transitioned to the new S/4 systems.
• Understand our data definition standards for finance objects, and define data quality reports and metrics to supervise the alignment of data to the new standards
• Work with the Data Hub technology project team and the Finance Data Managers to craft, extract, transform and load the business data for the new S/4 financial template.
• Deliver project deployment activities to schedule, quality, scope and cost.
• Identify and raise deployment dependencies and risks, to ensure these are visible to the program leadership teams and can be mitigated.
• Collaborate with change leads to implement effective change management, ensuring business readiness, end-user adoption and adequate training programs in data related activities.
• Collaborate with the FBT enabling solutions teams to ensure data requirements from current ECC the future S/4 are understood and addressed within the fit to standard design.
• Collaborate with finance data and process leads on data activities for retro-fits to global standard.
• Develop a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement in a fast paced, evolving environment.

Experience and qualifications

You will have a Post Graduate degree or equivalent experience in finance, engineering, Accounting or related field. Finance experience is a must.

It would be essential that you have:

• 12-14 years of experience in SAP deployments with specific focus in financial processes and data
• 10+ years of experience in SAP data quality, data management, data migration processes for Finance objects.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Superb communication, collaborator management and influencing skills
• Good understanding and experience in working with multi-functional teams, with confirmed evidence of collaborating and developing partnerships across different teams.
• Outstanding ability to prioritise and work in a fast paced and demanding project environment.

Desirable Criteria

• Experience in support of Oil and Gas businesses or manufacturing businesses.

• Good knowledge of SAP finance processes across various modules (AA, PS, GL, AP, AR)

• Good knowledge of processes and financial data flows of the current bp SAP ECC templates (i.e. global financial template GFT and Americas financial template AFT) and business impacts
• Experience in migrations to S/4 HANA for finance.

You will work with

This role is part of the Finance Business and Technology (FBT), ERP Transformation Team, a team whose objectives underpin the overall Finance vision of crafting and protecting value through innovation, insight, and stewardship. The team's objectives are to own the efforts to establish a single global ERP Financial business template that will incorporate standardised global processes, a common data taxonomy and simplify our ERP landscape. This includes partnering with Technology and global and business collaborators to also handle interdependent processes and tools for an agile, consistent, and collaborative execution of change.

Travel Requirement
Up to 10% travel should be 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:
Agility core practices, Analytical Thinking, Commercial Acumen, Communication, Creativity and Innovation, Data Analysis, Decision Making, Digital fluency, Integration, Managing strategic partnerships, Research and insights, Risk Management, Stakeholder Engagement, Stakeholder Management, Sustainability awareness and action

Legal Disclaimer:

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, socioeconomic status, neurodiversity/neurocognitive functioning, 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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