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

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 ( https://exploreyourbenefits.com/landing.html) 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 vac