Senior Finance Analyst, Global Supply Chain & Tenders

About the team The Global Supply Chain Finance team supports Castrol's Global Accounts and Global Tender activities, helping drive profitable growth through commercial evaluation, tender support, costing analysis, and financial modelling. This role partners closely with Global Account Managers (GAM), Supply Chain, Procurement, Marketing, Pricing, Technology, Country Costing Teams, and senior business leaders to develop competitive and commercially robust customer solutions. Key tasks Lead financial support for global and regional customer tenders and RFQ opportunities. Develop robust costing projections, valuation models, and commercial business cases to support customer offers. Coordinate inputs across finance, supply chain, procurement, pricing, marketing, technology, and country teams. Support commercial negotiations through analysis of pricing, profitability, cost-to-serve, and value/risk trade-offs. Manage tender governance, approvals, documentation, and audit requirements to ensure compliance. Maintain and administer the Collab tender costing platform, ensuring data quality and consistency. Provide clear recommendations and executive briefings to support senior management decision-making. Drive continuous improvement, digitization, process simplification, and knowledge management across tendering activities. Experience required Bachelor’s degree/CMA/CA/CPA in finance, Accounting, Business, or a related discipline. Minimum 8 years of experience in commercial finance, costing, financial modelling, valuation, tender support, or related finance roles. Strong financial modelling, commercial analysis, and business case development experience. Experience working with multiple cross-functional stakeholders in a matrix organization. Strong project coordination skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and tight deadlines. Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, including experience presenting to senior leaders. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to evaluate risks, assumptions, and commercial opportunities. Advanced Excel and financial analysis capabilities; experience supporting process improvement and digital tools is advantageous.