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bp

Senior Tax Manager

bp

. Act as the tax technology lead for one or more of our pivotal initiatives – including driving development and ownership of design, testing and delivery for all tax data related activity.

Posted 5/7/2026full-timeChicago • Illinois • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Act as the tax technology lead for one or more of our pivotal initiatives – including driving development and ownership of design, testing and delivery for all tax data related activity. This includes the supporting engagement, prioritization, resourcing, funding and governance activities needed to ensure effective and efficient operation and delivery in line with bp tax and wider bp strategic objectives.
  • Actively participate in all relevant forums for the strategic initative(s), as the tax technology single point of contact (SPoC), ensuring tax requirements and drivers are explicitly included in all discussions.
  • Act as delegate for the VP T2D2 in all relevant forums as required.
  • Actively work with key partners to promote the T2D2 agenda and ensure the organisation’s talent strategy and pipeline will deliver the skills required of future tax professionals - with a particular focus on technology and data related activities.
  • Support the development of the 3-5 year business vision and roadmap for tax technology
  • For the initiative(s) being led, ensure alignment of tax technology interests and data requirements with other strategic bp projects and activities to drive efficiency and effectiveness across BP and minimize duplication of effort.
  • Embed, coach and develop team members to ensure a cohesive and effective development of strategy to tackle complex problems, working with specialists outside of the function to ensure deployment of the very best expertise and alignment of organisational priorities.
  • Actively support the development of closer relationships with executives from FBT, Big 4 partners, bp technology and the broader finance function to inform, develop and deploy effective organisational investment to address data and digital opportunities aligned with the tax technology critical initiatives.
  • Foster a positive work environment for colleagues including safety, compliance and ethics, diversity & inclusion and providing development opportunities.
  • Partner with colleagues to actively support (1) the continued deployment of operational modernisation and (2) cultural and behavioural change across group tax and our key business partners to ensure a collective approach to embedding standard process, technologies and ways of working in line with bp strategy.
  • Ensure tax technology investment is prioritised and spent appropriately to realise the greatest value for BP. Demand excellence in delivery of projects and operations, using agility, pace and cost efficiency to deliver the right services at the right time.

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Extensive years of relevant experience in finance / tax transformation with an in depth understanding of business transformation projects and approaches - particularly technology, data and process change, setup and operationalization.
  • Strong SAP Financials knowledge – ideally S4Hana - with knowledge of other SAP modules – particularly Procurement – a strong benefit
  • Understanding of AI fundamentals including MS Copilot and/or other genAI tools.
  • Detailed understanding of core finance / tax technology concepts and activities with good experience)
  • Strong relationship building and partner management skills across business and technology domains – and with internal and external business partners.
  • Solid ability to take the initiative to create opportunities for improvement and problem resolution.
  • Proven experience in understanding, compiling, and improving established policies and procedures through collaboration with support teams.
  • Strong analytical and documentation skills, attention-to-detail, and self-starter.
  • Excellent business verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to influence others to accomplish initiatives.
  • Able to lead multiple projects and prioritise effectively in a fast-paced environment.
  • Ability to lead in a matrix organization environment.
  • Demonstrable experience with agile methodologies.

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • flexible working options
  • collaboration spaces in a modern office environment
  • many others benefits

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Hard Skills & Tools
tax technologyfinance transformationbusiness transformationSAP FinancialsS4HanaAI fundamentalsgenAI toolsagile methodologiesdata analysisprocess change
Soft Skills
relationship buildingpartner managementinitiativeproblem resolutionanalytical skillsattention to detailcommunication skillsinfluenceproject managementleadership