Ethics & Compliance and Control Assurance Lead
About BP Our business is the exploration, production, refining, trading and distribution of energy. This is what we do, and we do it on a truly global scale. With a workforce of nearly 100,000 employees, BP operates with business activities and customers in more than 100 countries across six continents. Every day, we serve millions of customers around the world. We are continually looking for talented, committed and ambitious people to help us shape the face of energy for the future.
BP's Exploration and Production segment focuses on finding reserves of oil and gas, developing the means to extract and process it and then consistently producing and transporting it to market. This involves using cutting edge technology to find the energy reserves, the ability to drill thousands of meters under the ground, designing, building and operating some of the world's largest most complex production onshore / offshore facilities and finally being able to transport these fluids, in order to provide energy to the world.
The Commercial Discipline plays a pivotal role in delivering performance today and in securing access to future opportunities. We integrate technical information to describe business risks and opportunities, shape financial performance and structure the arrangements with Co-venture and Governments to define the sharing of risk and reward. Our purpose is to:
shape and implement strategy through establishing robust business plans, evaluating investment opportunities and managing performance
deliver commercial operational management including specialist areas of hydrocarbon transportation and regulatory compliance and administration
create deals and contractual arrangements to manage risk and reward in the access, exploration, development and operational phases of the business
Role synopsis
AGT Regional Ethics, Compliance and Financial Assurance team as part of Head of Control organization is responsible for (i) developing and implementation of Ethics and Compliance Program, (ii) conducting and overseeing internal fraud/ misconduct investigations as well as (iii) supporting Regional control plan by carrying out process compliance reviews and testing control effectiveness and control designs.
Ethics and Compliance Officer will be primarily responsible for delivery of AGT Ethics and Compliance Program and promoting Ethics and Compliance agenda within the Region. The responsibilities will also include review of effectiveness and design of financial controls.
Key accountabilities
Ethics and Compliance Agenda
• Ensure delivery of Ethics and Compliance Program
• Develop knowledge and capability around Ethics & Compliance Agenda
• Analyze entries to Gifts & Entertainment, Conflict of Interest and Hosting of Government Officials registers; follow up on exceptions and share inputs with RLT members.
• Review, analyze, perform ranking and close out of reported Code of Conduct breaches.
• Ensure administration of Ethics & Compliance website
• Ensure delivery of Ethics and Compliance training program
• Plan and coordinate the Annual Ethics & Compliance Certification process
• Prepare the Region President’s Certificate and review it with Management. Submit the Certificate to Group Ethics & Compliance by agreed deadline
• Help to drive Ethics and Compliance agenda in proactive and innovative manner, exploring best practices and other initiatives by other locations
• Analyze results, communicate proposed action plan for the next year to RLT
• Deliver monitoring of AGTR counterparties and ensure development and implementation of high risk counterparties' remediation actions for adherence to Group ABC, AML, High Risk Agent standards and applicable AGTR procedure
• Education and ongoing reinforcement of staff on the elements of CoC, AML, HRA standards and practices.
• Support Line Manager in identification of Ethics & Compliance and Financial risks profile and suggest actions plan to address the risks
• Maintain DoFA database in accordance with Group Standards and applicable Regional Policy
• In area of FMI work closely and be guided by the Central FMI team of investigation approach and plan conclusions and recommendations.
Financial Control
• Lead deep dives into financial and control processes to test control effectiveness and control designs
• Analyze root causes of control deficiencies and monitoring remediation. Maintain control gap tracker in FCM.
• Lead coordination of CET refreshment process with timely update of FCM.
• Lead internal verification of AGTR Sustainability Report
• Actively support Group Control and E&Y review of control processes
• Coordinate all financial/control audit gaps raised by CAR, IA and E&Y
Essential Education
• University degree in economic/ finance/ accounting .
Essential experience and job requirements
• Minimum of 5 years experience in Finance
• Strong personal integrity
• High standard of analytical and report writing skills, with attention to detail.
• Good communication skills with the ability to apply these skills at all levels of the organization
• Effective problem-solving and planning skills with ability to see the big picture
Innovative -Looking for ways to do things better, faster, more efficiently
Desirable criteria & qualifications
• Experience with Purchase to Pay Processes
• Experience with electronic accounting and procurements systems (e.g. SAP, Commercial Browser, Maximo, etc)
• Experience in conducting audits and root cause analysis
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