# Trade Settlement Lead

**Company**: Bp
**Location**: Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Energy

**Apply**: https://careers.bp.com/job-description/RQ110079?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_54671cf0-00b

## Description

As a Trade Settlement Lead, you will be responsible for handling settlements transactions and acting as the primary interface with trading counterparties, front office and operations team.

Key accountabilities include: Accurate and timely completion of settlements activities within the area of responsibility Support the integration of new business activity into the area of responsibility, ensuring that activity is embedded in a controlled and efficient manner Ensure that operational activity is conducted within a strong control framework, highlighting any gaps or issues, developing, documenting and implementing mitigations as appropriate Understand business performance expectations, measurement and reporting of KPIs, providing commentary and actions as appropriate and addressing root cause of issues Deal with settlement disputes in a timely manner Develop strong working relationships with Power & LCT Commercial Teams Ensure full compliance with the bp T&S Settlements Policy Support business relationships with identified key stakeholders, building and maintaining customer focus Work with relevant teams addressing root causes of outstanding items and issues raised Managed aged debt and daily cash funding, supporting Group cash and working capital management objectives Pro-actively seek opportunities to standardize, simplify and automate processes to improve performance and efficiency Support change activities to ensure successful implementation Provide coaching to team members and support for complex settlements scenarios Identify and deliver Continuous Improvement ideas Oversee Pricing related queries Handles both internal and external audit requests.

## Skills

### Required
- Accounts Payable and Receivable settlements principles
- SAP experience
- Commodity Trading and accounting background

### Nice to have
- Strong analytical skills, attention to detail
- Strong work ethics and professionalism
- Strong stakeholder management, customer service capabilities
- Strong problem solving, communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to work as part of a team in a fast-paced environment
- Proven ability to communicate and influence across all levels in the organization
- Good Microsoft skills and ability to handle data from multiple sources and systems
- Strong teamwork with ability to support and appropriately challenge team members
- Ability to prioritize, handle pressure and deliver on deadlines in a fast-paced environment
- Self-confident appearance in relations to the internal contacts
- Good change management skills
- Proven experience in identifying continuous improvement opportunities
- Ability to mentor team members
- Commitment to business control including the courage to speak up where appropriate
- Ability to work in an agile and flexible manner, adapting quickly to change and collaborating effectively across teams

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Source: [Apply at careers.bp.com](https://careers.bp.com/job-description/RQ110079?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)