Vacant Jobs at bp

Job Description:

• Responsible for supporting bp in the commodity and financial markets, providing desk cover for all traded markets, initiating and maintaining positions based on current economic, political and financial conditions and actively building a customer base to develop and execute trading

The role will be accountable for the below T&S’s South Africa Marine business

• Maintain relationships with vessel agents and operations teams which supply export documentation
• Timely supply of bunker delivery documents and clearing instructions to clearing agents to ensure timeous export declarations.
• Retrieval and collation of all export documentation as required by legislation and as aligned with Indirect tax and Compliance. These documents will include but may not be limited to- Purchase orders, BDNs, Invoices, DA1/DA3s, SAD500s, VOCs, GEM tracking, clearing instructions, proof of payments
• Review collected export documentation for accuracy, completeness and validity; manage any discrepancies with relevant internal/external stakeholders
• Maintain retention of all export documentation in a central repository accessible by all internal stakeholders and in a manner that enables ease of retrieval in the event of any reviews and audits
• Perform weekly proof of export tracking
• Perform reconciliation of export transactions to trade statistics
• Prepare monthly dashboard that provides overview of exports compliance
• Lead the automation of export documentation collection and review efficiency of processes and the need for automation as applicable
• Performs attestation (Indirect Tax control Framework and any other which may be required) of compliance processes within the scope of this role
• Assist with updates of documented processes as changes in the business arise
• Support with the Monthly reconciliation between Marine MI and Statutory reporting
• Support the team with ARIBA related requests
• Lead response to any SARS Audit requests
• Supports the T&S Business Manager in their duties and responsibilities
• Extracting data from the systems to support ad-hoc requests from the wider teams
• Assisting with Interim and year-end external auditor requests
• Assist with the implementation of process improvement solutions for activities within the team
• Support with action tracking for identified projects
• Cover for the T&S Market analyst
• BCP updates

Essential Education

• Bachelor or Commerce in Accounting or similar

Essential Experience

• Operational indirect tax experience
• Understanding of O2C and export declaration to indirect tax acquittal processes
• Performing reconciliations and multi-way matching of documents within an audit trail
• Managing documentation management systems
• Understanding of the P2P process

Other essential skills

• Strong documentation processing & management skills
• Strong with administration, organisational and coordination/analysing 
• Energetic, self-starting and able to take ideas and run with them without undue supervision
• Able to manage and build strong counterparty relationships in a short period of time with external and internal parties whom incumbent has not met or worked with before.
• Good with documents management systems
• Ability to work with various systems and identify potential areas of efficiency
• SAP experience advantageous