Entity:

Finance

Job Family Group:

Finance Group

Job Description:

This role presents a fantastic opportunity with high visibility and exposure to senior leaders across ST&S. We are looking for a commercial individual with strong influencing capability, able to build robust networks and work effectively with a wide range of people at senior levels.

As Head of Investment Governance, you are accountable for ensuring that investment and commitment decisions across ST&S and associated trading businesses are made within a structured, transparent and well-controlled governance framework, while remaining fast, commercially enabling and strategically aligned to Group and ST&S strategy.

You will partner closely with the commercial organisation, influencing deal design, sequencing and portfolio choices to balance value creation, risk and strategic priorities across ST&S.

A core element of the role is end-to-end ownership of the Commitments Committee (CC) Secretariat globally, covering all cases progressing to CC across Gas and Power Trading America (GPTA), Gas and Power Trading International (GPTI), Refined Products Trading (RPT) Global, Shipping and Refining, Supply & Midstream (RSM). You will run a high-performing governance operating rhythm and ensure that executives receive high-quality, decision-ready materials that reflect the right strategic framing, delegated authority position, and key risks/mitigations—without slowing commercial delivery.

You are responsible for the Group Investment and Assurance Approvals Process (GIAAP) governance within ST&S, representing ST&S on relevant governance forums and for collaborating with central governance and governance leads in other businesses—bringing the ST&S perspective to policy and process improvements.

What you will do…

Investment Governance & Delegations Oversight

Delegations Monitoring & Control

• Oversee the investment approval framework, ensuring clear delegation of authority (DOA) policies are in place for trading, deal origination, and investment execution.
• Maintain a structured tracking system to monitor delegation usage, flagging any discrepancies or unauthorised decision-making.
• Conduct periodic reviews of delegated authorities to ensure they align with risk appetite, financial capacity, and corporate investment goals

Alignment with Trading & Origination Strategy

• Work closely with trading, origination, and commercial development teams to synchronize governance policies with commercial priorities, ensuring agile yet controlled decision-making.
• Define pre-approved investment thresholds for trading desks and origination teams, enabling efficiency while maintaining risk oversight. (Including Capex, Leases, URP, working capital, cost to trade, etc.)
• Ensure trading and origination teams have real-time awareness of delegated authority limits, reducing bottlenecks in deal approvals.
• Implement a critical issue framework, ensuring investment opportunities that exceed pre-set limits are reviewed efficiently by the appropriate governance bodies.

Deal Governance & Oversight

Investment Governance Framework

• Own the Commitments Committee (CC) Secretariat end-to-end (global): run the full CC operating model across regions and businesses, including intake, gating, agenda build, logistics, pre-reads, minutes/decisions, actions tracking, and communications—ensuring consistent quality and pace.
• Establish clear processes for investment assurance evaluations, ensuring risk-adjusted returns and strategic fit assessments are conducted for every deal.
• Ensure all deals go through proper due diligence, including financial, legal, and market assessments before proceeding to executive approval.
• Oversee the investment approval workflows, ensuring all necessary documentation and risk assessments are in place before moving forward.
• Implement governance checks that balance speed of execution with compliance and control.
• Represent ST&S on governance forums: represent ST&S on governance communities/forums - including the Resource Commitments Meeting (RCM) practitioners committee - and ensure alignment between enterprise governance expectations and ST&S operating realities.

Transaction & Portfolio Oversight

• Regularly review high-value transactions, ensuring they meet compliance, risk, and strategic benchmarks.
• Ensure that trading and origination teams have the necessary governance structure in place to support proactive decision-making.
• Oversee portfolio risk exposure, ensuring diversification and adherence to investment mandates and alignment with strategy
• Intervene early to halt activity that is misaligned with strategy or risk tolerance.

Executive Stakeholder Engagement & Influence

• This role serves as a key point of influence within the executive team, ensuring compliance with investment policies, regulatory requirements, and internal approval structures. This is supported by an understanding of commercial boundaries and insights into how they are supported by the policies, requirements and structures. Act as a trusted advisor to the executive team, ensuring governance frameworks enhance decision-making rather than hinder agility.
• Provide regular governance reports to the Investment Committee, Risk Committee, and Board, outlining delegation usage, investment approval efficiency, and policy effectiveness.

Policy Development & Continuous Improvement

• Design, implement, and periodically review investment governance policies to ensure they remain fit-for-purpose as business strategy evolves.
• Monitor regulatory changes and adjust governance frameworks accordingly to maintain compliance.
• Lead investment governance training programs for internal teams to ensure adherence to standard processes.

What you’ll bring…

• Degree‑educated or equivalent professional experience.
• Exceptional organisational capability with a proven track record of execution in fast‑moving, high‑stakes environments; able to anticipate issues, intervene early, and avoid surprises.
• Ability to rapidly build and sustain trusted relationships with senior executives, peers, and the broader organisation, exercising influence without reliance on formal authority.
• Strong, intuitive communicator with the ability to distil complex commercial and risk considerations into clear, decision‑ready executive material.
• Strong commercial judgement and deep understanding of value creation, risk and trade‑offs in capital‑ and risk‑intensive businesses.
• Working knowledge of the application of GIAAP and Economic Evaluation Methodology (EEM).
• Experience in, or strong exposure to, ST&S or comparable trading‑led environments.
• Experience automating processes, including leveraging AI‑enabled tools, to support more effective and data‑driven decision‑making would be beneficial.

Why join us?

We’re committed to supporting leaders who want to make an impact. At bp, you’ll have the chance to shape and influence outcomes across businesses. You’ll be part of an inclusive environment where diverse perspectives are valued, and where your contribution to performance and integration matters. We invest in the growth and wellbeing of our people, providing the resources, networks, and development opportunities needed to thrive.

Our total rewards package includes competitive pay, bonuses, share options, and a range of flexible benefits designed to meet your needs — from healthcare and retirement plans to paid time off and agile working. We recognise that people have multifaceted lives, and we strive to offer a career experience that reflects that.

Apply now!

Travel Requirement

Up to 10% travel should be expected with this roleThis role is not eligible for relocationThis position is a hybrid of office/remote workingAnalytical Thinking, Business Acumen, Collaboration, Commodity Risk Management, Creativity and Innovation, Curiosity, Data visualization and interpretation, Decision Making, Exposure Management, Internal control and compliance, Market Knowledge, Market Risk Management, Operational Risk, Portfolio analytics, Problem Solving, Resilience, Sentiment and Trends, Thought Leadership, Trade discipline and compliance, Trade execution and management, Trading and shipping data knowledge, Trading Fundamentals, Trading knowledge, Trading risk controls

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