Finance
Finance at BP attracts high-calibre professionals from over 60 nationalities. We can offer you a rich and varied career, working across different locations and cultures to tangibly impact our business in a safe and reliable environment
BP is built on incisive financial decisions. Our finance team works to add value to our diverse company, by providing expert advice, driving strategy, offering independent perspectives and delivering efficient processes.
Ours is an industry that’s constantly changing. Global markets literally shift overnight. We buy and sell assets, and negotiate huge contracts around the world. Discoveries need to be assessed, new technologies funded and strategies agreed. Our finance professionals deliver the commercial expertise to projects to ensure we keep pace.
In group finance, you could be involved in capital allocation, planning, performance management, financial reporting or balance sheet management. There will be plenty of opportunities to specialize – whether that’s as an economist helping us to respond to fast-changing energy markets or as an expert in financial processes ensuring our systems are benchmarks for excellence.
People stories
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Using skills gained in the military to shape a new career: Tai’s storyTai joined BP through the ‘Military Placement Programme’ (MPP), an extensive learning and development programme which allows military personnel to pursue their post-military career aspirations -
Flexibility as a gasoline trader: Elise’s storyAlthough engineering is Elise’s ‘bread and butter’, an early career in finance made her realise that she could combine her engineering background with finance and find a job that suited her at BP -
Brian Gilvary talks inclusion and how BP is supporting underprivileged people in the UKBrian Gilvary, BP's chief financial officer, spoke about the importance of ensuring equal opportunities for everyone – regardless of social class, gender, ethnicity and religion – when he attended the the CBI’s annual conference in London