Planning & Performance Manager

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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. We are one of the very few companies equipped to solve some of the big complex challenges that matter for the future. We have a real contribution to make to the world's ambition of a low carbon future. Join us, and be part of what we can accomplish together. You can participate in our new ambition to become a net zero company by 2050 or sooner, and to help the world get to net zero.

In Hungary, we operate bp's Global Business Services organization which is an integrated part of bp. Our people want to play their part in solving the big complex 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 in Budapest and Szeged, we work in customer service, finance, accounting, procurement, HR services and other enabling functions - providing solutions across all of bp.

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

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 world-class team?

Join our Team and advance your career as a

Planning & Performance Manager

In this role You will:

• Establish & maintain a proactive business partnering relationship between senior stakeholders, business segment budget holders and GBS PPR team to ensure underlying performance is well understood, to proactively challenge and propose performance improvements, and to monitor & investigate anomalies & trends.
• Be the key point of contact with the business segment Leads, drive an efficient and effective collaborate with the Embedded Finance Team and across all GBS locations/teams in support of the Performance Management agenda, ensuring robust & timely forecasts and deliver MI analysis and commentary for the leadership team.
• Partner with other business collaborators to provide detailed analysis of focus areas of performance, providing insights and interventions ensuring integrity & sufficient challenge.
• Articulate trends and summarises detailed analysis into meaningful high level messages.
• Analyse and interprets actuals as a basis for performance management at business level.
• Actively supports reporting and cost allocation processes
• Understand the drivers of value for the Business and associated risks.
• Understand and provides insight on how changes to strategy and tactics will impact financial outcomes.
• Support commercial decision making through insightful questioning and challenging insights.
• Be responsible for the overall accuracy of reporting and the close process for GBS owned processes, ensuring financials are aligned with Group policies and local standards
• Apply knowledge of specific policies including Group accounting policies as outlined in the Group Reporting Manual (GRM) and GCM to ensure compliance
• Actively update regulatory and compliance knowledge
• Apply control frameworks to business processes and supports continuous improvement to ensure ethical and financial integrity is maintained
• Actively identifies requirements for additional process and systems controls
• Challenges non-compliance or areas of weakness identified and investigates route cause.
• Partner with Business Segment Leaders to lead the performance agenda to deliver in-year and multi-year plans and shape business strategy for the longer term
• Understand macro-economic assumptions and resulting implications for planning and understand any exceptions to these relating to the specifics of local business.
• Be accountable for GFO / GFR process and ensuring plans and forecasts are realistic within the context of the Business Segment strategy and the external environment
• Be accountable for providing timely, accurate and reliable financial and management information including analysis, interpretation and insight
• Own the Allocations & Recovery process, working with key partners to ensure timely and accurate input into the Plan process
• Contributes to business case preparation & subsequent review of FMs & CAPEX expenditure.
• Support business segment performance conversations with the Executive
• Deliver the People agenda; lead on HSSE and E&C, build capability and develop talent, and ensure effective execution of the teams accountabilities
• Provide clarity of roles and accountabilities for direct reports and work to inspire and motivate your team and the wider organisation to raise the bar on performance
• Embed the new ways of working, driving collaboration and continuous improvement to enhance performance in the GBS in support of the Business Strategy
• and the like.

What You will need to be successful:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in a relevant PPR/business field required. Master's Degree or equivalent experience preferred. Typically requires a minimum of 8-10 years relevant post degree experience.
• Recognised professional accounting qualification
• Excellent influencing skills
• Fluency in English
• Requires the development of annual spending and resourcing priorities including gaining agreement to meet team or operational plans and budgets.
• Incumbent is subject to general leadership direction and broadly defined policy objectives
• Self-starter; able to manage a varied workload in volume and time pressure
• Excellent teammate with the ability to communicate effectively at all levels, including the translation of complex requirements to simple outcomes
• Management skills including maturity in demand management and the ability to successfully manage conflicting priorities and expectations
• Resilience to operate effectively in a fast moving, challenging environment
• Expert use of Excel
• Business Partnering & Control experience an advantage
• Experience working with BP's financial reporting processes and systems useful but not required

At bp, we provide the following environment & benefits to you:

• Different bonus opportunities based on performance, wide range of cafeteria elements
• Life & health insurance, medical care package
• Flexible working schedule:
  home office up to 2 days / week, based on team agreement
• Opportunity to build up long term career path and develop your skills with wide range of learning options
• Family friendly workplace e.g.:
  Extended parental leave, Mother-baby room
• Employees' wellbeing programs e.g.:
  Employee Assistance Program, Company Recognition Program
• Possibility to join our social communities and networks
• Chill-out and collaboration spaces in our beautiful Budapest Agora and Szeged offices e.g.:
  Play Zones, Office massage, Sport and music equipment
• Assets like phone for private u.