Graduate/ Exciting Vacancies at BP International

Job Description:

• At bp, we provide an excellent working environment and employee benefits such as an open and inclusive culture, a great work-life balance, tremendous learning and development opportunities to craft your career path, life and health insurance, medical care package and many others.
• Execute the category strategy into commercially successful product ranges, prioritised for current launch and a pipeline 12 months ahead
• Value engineer recipes to meet commercial requirements, whilst balancing the need for high quality food and drink standards.
• Devise and execute a robust benchmark programme, with a clear intention to improve the sales performance of the current range.
• Leading the presentation of new/upgraded products to the internal teams and dealer network as part of the New Product Development process
• Writing and maintaining product specifications and product menu/portfolios.
• Close liaison with the Food Safety specialist and suppliers to meet launch deadlines and meet legal requirements in New Product Development.
• Develop compliance reports with the OPEX team to ensure organoleptic food satandards are met
• Attends all pre-production trials, plus first production runs to ensure that products meet submissions – supported by the Food

Education

• An NQF Level 7 degree or diploma in Food and Nutrition, Consumer Studies, or be a qualified chef from a reputable institution

Experience

• Minimum 8 years New Product Development experience -in food retail or within a manufacturer that works closely with a food retailer
• We support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and challenging environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity. We are committed to crafting 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 to enable your work to fit with your life. These benefits can include flexible working options, collaboration spaces in a modern office environment, and many others benefits.

Travel Requirement

• Negligible travel should be expected with this role

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Key Responsibilities

Functional

• Execute day-to-day inventory accounting/settlements operations to ensure delivery meets customer expectations.
• Monitor inventory transactions and reports in systems and reconcile inventory and inventory related accounts in the general ledger; review and ensure statutory reports are prepared in a timely manner.
• Conduct monthly cost and/or stock reconciliations and balance sheet reconciliations where necessary.
• Resolve all outstanding reconciliation issues on a timely basis
• Investigate and resolve physical inventory movement imbalances and differences.
• Support external / internal audit and Internal Control reviews.
• Ensure the generation of accurate and timely payment of / to third party and inter-company vendor/ customer invoices for goods received and related services on behalf of bpSA and in compliance with policies and procedures.
• Perform review and verification of pricing and transaction volume including contract review and stock/sales/purchases ledger; calculate other charges and fees.
• Monitor key reports and data to ensure that accounts are accurate and clean.
• Act as a liaison with business finance, negotiators, schedulers, credit Treasury teams and third parties in identifying and resolving various issues including contract and movement entries, deal documentation review.
• We support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and challenging environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity. We are committed to crafting 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 to enable your work to fit with your life. These benefits can include flexible working options, collaboration spaces in a modern office environment, and many others benefits.

Travel Requirement

• No travel is expected with this role

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About the role:

Functional scope:

• Analyse & compile data required for performing the monthly DAS (duty at source) journals and reconciliations.
• Prepare & submit monthly & quarterly indirect tax balance sheet account analysis, reconciliations & commentary.
• Handle calculation & validation of DAS accruals at month end.
• Analyse & investigate Das reconciling items and ensure timely resolution & proactively seek to minimise or eliminate by addressing root causes.
• Maintain DAS levies system with updated rates, locations, grades, etc.
• Calculate and account for any DAS levy rate change impacts.
• Compile and provide DAS data & reports for Management Information purposes.
• Validate indirect tax invoices for payments & credit notes where required.
• Assist with Audit request, Ad hoc requests and Projects.
• Provide cover for other Indirect Tax team members from time to time where required.
• Service Management & Continuous Improvement:
• Ensure continuous improvement of existing DAS accounting and operational processes and update DAS standard operating procedures (SOP documents)
• Maintain strong professional relationships with relevant internal partners and external stakeholders.

About you:

• You will hold an Accounting degree or equivalent qualification

Essential skills and competencies:

• Approximately 5 years relevant experience in a financial accounting environment, and extensive experience in performing and resolving reconciliations
• Problem solving skills
• Analytical & reconciliation skills
• Risk & compliance management
• Data management & control
• Customer Service Delivery Excellence
• Awareness of Vendor Payment Processing
• Proficiency in English language

Desirable Criteria

• Industry knowledge would be advantageous
• Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate and interact with staff at different levels
• Hands on, operational person
• Strong analytical and problem-solving ability
• Able to prioritise work and adhere to tight deadlines

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Job Description:

• Complete day-to-day inventory accounting/settlements operations to ensure delivery meets customer expectations.
• Monitor inventory transactions and reports in systems and reconcile inventory and inventory related accounts in the general ledger; review and ensure statutory reports are prepared in a timely manner.
• Conduct monthly cost and/or stock reconciliations and balance sheet reconciliations where vital.
• Resolve all outstanding reconciliation issues on a timely basis.
• Collaborate across internal teams to drive the quick and accurate resolution of reconciliation issues:
• marketing supply negotiators, balance analysts, product schedulers, settlement analysts and transaction control staff.
• Business Unit's such as Trading & Shipping, Midstream, Refining; Commercial, Retail and significant interaction with 3rd party service providers
• Support external / internal audit and Internal control reviews.
• Ensure the generation of accurate and timely payment of / to third party and inter-company vendor/ customer invoices for goods received and related services on behalf of bpSA and in compliance with policies and procedures
• Supervise key reports and data to ensure that accounts are accurate and clean.
• Act as a liaison with business finance, negotiators, schedulers, credit Treasury teams and third parties in identifying and resolving various issues including contract and movement entries, deal documentation review.
• Assist with fuel tax, freight and ancillary payment processes and provisions.
• Compile and process accrual entries for movements not processed in the system and cost variances.
• Calculate, prepare and process month end journals and compile month end reports related to the area of accountability.
• Provide cover for other Team members from time to time where required.
• Assist with Ad-hoc requests from the business and support business projects.

Service Management & Continuous Improvement

• Ensure continuous improvement in inventory and supply accounting operational processes, process simplification and compliance through utilisation of the key metrics and taking / recommending remediation action as required.
• Maintain strong professional relationships with relevant internal partners and external stakeholders.

Education

• BCOM Accounting or equivelent, CIMA
• We support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and challenging environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity. We are committed to crafting 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 to enable your work to fit with your life.
• These benefits can include flexible working options, collaboration spaces in a modern office environment, and many others benefits! We operate a hybrid model with 60% from the office and 40% from home with flexibility as agreed with line management.

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Job Description:

• Our early careers programme provides a range of foundational career experiences and a gateway to an exciting and rewarding career. 

Key Accountabilities and Development milestones:

• The successful candidate will work across the convenience value chain, partnering with internal and external teams to bring new digitization opportunities that benefit our customer, employee, and ultimately deliver better consumer experiences in our shops and across our offers.

Essential Criteria and/or Qualification:

• An Honours degree/BTech Honours/4th Year or higher in Information Systems, Industrial Engineering, Data Science, or equivalent
• Knowledge of current discipline, specific trends, theories/approaches, and benchmarks
• Little or no professional work experience
• Must have graduated in 2021, 2022 or 2023

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Job Description:

• One Finance is designed to create a pipeline of diverse finance professionals who have potential to progress, have broad discipline experience, a transferable skills-set, and are ready to deliver the finance vision. Early career finance talent will build their experience through challenging development assignments, grow a toolkit of transferable skills for the future, and have a dedicated network of support to help them succeed. 

Key Accountabilities and Development milestones 

• Responsible for supporting the team with accounting and reporting services 
• Providing administrative and accounting systems support 
• Assisting with analysis and reporting processes to ensure integrity and conformance to bp’s systems and requirements 
• Manage and communicate regular reporting of competitor data in line with the global capability handbook into the SA market and use this to identify actions required to maintain position against pricing strategy

Essential Criteria and Qualification 

• An Honours degree/BTech/Honours in accounting, management accounting or economics
• Knowledge of PowerBI/ digital automaton will be an added advantage. 
• Knowledge of current discipline, specific trends, theories/approaches, and benchmarks 
• Little or no professional work experience 
• Must have graduated in 2021, 2022 or 2023

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Key Accountabilities and Development milestones

Demand Planning and Performance:

• Coordinate and participate in below-the-line supply & demand planning processes, building up to Midstream functional review, including daily optimisation forums, weekly demand planning forum, weekly stocks meeting and monthly operational plan session
• Providing input into organisation working capital forecasting (plan, latest estimate – LE, actuals)
• Support in setting of supply-demand balance for different planning horizons including weekly/in-month, 3-month view, 12–24-month plan
• Conducting review of optimum variable average stock (OVAS)
• Any other supply demand adhoc work including assisting with view of supply-demand balances for project work
• Provide support to Midstream commercial analyst for demand-supply related analyses

Key Account Management (KAM):

• Support KAM in managing the interface between the depot, stocks, supply & logistics on day-to-day operational delivery.
• Support KAM on month end reporting deliverables
• Support KAM in the strategic deliveries, including Developing offers in line with customer segmentation requirements for the various sectors (Mining, Agriculture, Fleet) and turbo charge strategy:
• Understanding the value drivers and support detailed demand tracking
• Support KAM to ensure integrated commercial optimisation

Essential Criteria and/or Qualification:

• An Honours degree/BTech Honours/4th Year or higher in Supply Chain, Economics or Industrial Engineering
• Minimum final year aggregate of 65% or 2.1 GPA
• Knowledge of current discipline, specific trends, theories/approaches, and benchmarks
• Little or no professional work experience
• Must have graduated in 2021, 2022 or 2023