Solutions Specialist

Entity: Finance Job Family Group: Operations Group Job Description: About bp Our purpose is to deliver energy to the world, today and tomorrow. For over 100 years, bp has focused on discovering, developing, and producing oil and gas in the nations where we operate. We are one of the few companies globally that can provide governments and customers with an integrated energy offering. Delivering our strategy sustainably is fundamental to achieving our ambition to be a net zero company by 2050 or sooner! We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation. Additional Information 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, veteran status, or disability status Organisation The Solutions field is part of the FB&T Enabling Solutions (ES) organisation, which is responsible for applying deep expertise to own, design, govern, and continuously improve the global products that are critical to bp's success, with a strong commitment to delivering high-quality, scalable solutions while ensuring the best possible user experience for our collaborators. Within this organisation, the Solution Specialist plays a key role by applying business and accounting knowledge to design solutions across processes in the SAP Finance domain, including integration scope. This position is assigned to a distributed team covering Finance (FI) and Controlling (CO), Profit Center Accounting (PCA), Profitability and Performance Management (PaPM), Time Writing (TW), Resource Related Billing (RRB), Joint Venture Accounting (JVA), Production Sharing Accounting (PSA), and Production & Revenue Accounting (PRA). The role also requires close collaboration with other workstreams within the ES organisation, such as General Ledger (GL), Asset Accounting (AA), Project System (PS), Cash & Banking (C&B), Central Finance (CFIN), BlackLine, and Reporting (Group, Statutory, and Management Information), to ensure seamless integration across end-to-end processes. In this position, you will help the organisation develop and deploy end-to-end solutions that not only meet current business needs within the existing ECC landscape but also anticipate and support future requirements. You will further contribute to the organisation's transformation by shaping new solution designs using S/4 HANA as part of bp's ERP Transformation Project. About Role Solution Specialist collaborates with the Solution Manager and sera domain expert expert in designing and delivering solutions across bp's global SAP landscape, governing the Global Finance Template (GFT), with the ability to guide and coach Solution Analysts within the team. As part of the Enabling Solutions organisation, the Solution Specialist brings deep process and technical expertise across Record to Report (R2R) including upstream SAP processes, with integration with Timewriting (TW), InterCOmpany (ICO), Enterprise Asset Management (EAM), Acquire to Retire (A2R), Procure to Pay (P2), Source to Pay (S2P), and Order to Cash (O2C). Operating within an Agile, multi-functional team, you will partner closely with collaborators to deliver high-quality, scalable, and sustainable solutions for the organisation. Using strong business and accounting knowledge, the Solution Specialist develops a thorough understanding of business needs and value drivers. Bringing to bear techcompetenceacumen and subject-matter expertise, you will propose solution options that best support bp's operational and strategic objectives. Enabling Solutions is a global organisation spanning multiple locations and serving diverse collaborators around the world. This role provides global exposure and involves close collaboration with: Solution domain experts across functional areas Business and Finance collaborators worldwide Transformation Project Managers and delivery teams A&C Operations teams ERP Transformation Project team bp partners across downstream and upstream globally. 4. Key Accountabilities – about you Break down product backlog items into clear functional requirements and provide guidance on user story implementation. Embrace and apply Agile principles and ways of working. Engage with collaborators to understand, analyse, and assess business requirements. Participate actively in product synchronisation boards. Lead end-to-end solution design across relevant functional areas, ensuring alignment with business needs, conceptual models, and global process standards. Investigate, evaluate, prototype, and recommend solution options, presenting proposals to business collaborators and relevant governance forums. Create, maintain, and govern high-q