Entity:
Finance
Job Family Group:
Finance Group
Job Description:
This is an opportunity to join bp Treasury and play an active role at the centre of bp’s relationships with the financial community whose support underpins our strategy. bp is focused on becoming a simpler, stronger and more valuable company: strengthening the balance sheet, simplifying the portfolio, investing with discipline, driving operational excellence and building a culture of high performance and accountability. How bp's banks, debt investors and credit rating agencies understand and support that journey directly shapes the company’s financial resilience, credit standing and flexibility to invest through the cycle.
Reporting to the Head of Banking & External Relations, you will support bp's relationships with its banking partners, fixed income investors and credit rating agencies. You'll represent bp externally, telling a clear and credible story about its strategy, performance and financial framework. You'll also bring market insight back to senior leaders on how the financial community views bp's delivery.
The role reaches well beyond the immediate team. You'll connect bp's financial partners, with teams across Group Treasury and the wider business, making sure the company extracts the full value of its relationships. It is an excellent platform for building broad corporate finance and capital markets expertise, with real insight to senior Treasury leadership, the CFO's office, Investor Relations, Supply, Trading & Shipping and Strategy & Sustainability.
Key Accountabilities
The role has scope to support across a broad set of accountabilities. How these are distributed across the team will vary over time and through prioritisation.
Global Corporate & Investment Banks
Support day-to-day relationships with an assigned portfolio of relationship banks.
Monitor and help secure banking services and credit capacity needed by our businesses, including standby facilities, business-level financing and trading exposures.
Understand how banks' credit policies and regulatory limits affect their ability to support bp.
Identify bp's future banking needs as the portfolio evolves, including divestments, partnerships and growth opportunities, and direct opportunities across the bank group.
Advise banks on bp's priorities and where they can add most value, and close down offers that don't contribute promptly and professionally.
Run relationship governance, including bank remuneration monitoring, fee and capability assessments, relationship reviews and inform bank selection for specific transactions.
Debt Investors
Act as a point of contact for debt investor enquiries.
Coordinate and support bp's debt investor engagement programme, including roadshows, credit conferences and bilateral meetings with key investors.
Build investor confidence in bp's balance sheet progress (including the wider view of total financial obligations), capital allocation priorities and credit story.
Engagement Across bp
Integrate across Treasury teams, including liquidity and cash management, capital advisory and structured finance, and corporate finance teams.
Partner with ST&S, including structured trade finance and FMT, to reflect their banking requirements, credit usage and priorities in relationship management.
Collaborate with Investor Relations so messaging is consistent across debt and equity audiences and shared relationships are well handled.
Connect with M&A and Strategy & Sustainability to stay current on bp's strategy and portfolio, and convey it accurately to external stakeholders.
Balance Sheet, Insight and Advisory
Support Treasury's priorities on strengthening the balance sheet and leading the capital structure.
Turn feedback from banks, investors and agencies into clear insights on themes, concerns and opportunities for senior leadership.
Prepare briefing materials, market updates and executive communications for senior Treasury leadership, the CFO and other key…