Company Dossiers: Insider Records from My Workplaces

In this article, I will share information relating to my previous job and the company I used to work in. It is not one of those secret information but something that is more of an open secret since companies tend not to be revealing in these trivial information.

General Information

Disclaimer: When I refer to branch, legally it is a subsidiary of the parent company despite being 100% owned.

Hierarchy

As with all organization. there are ranks and hierarchy in order to establish a chain of command. I am always fond with the military and enjoying researching them, especially the history. In the companies I worked with, here are the hierarchy and comparing with military ranks:

  1. Board of Directors/Chairman - The Military Command
  2. Chief Executive Officer/President - General
  3. C-Suite Officers/Executive Vice President - Lieutenant General (Strategic Function/Area/Sector)
  4. Senior Vice President - Major General (Business Unit)
  5. Vice President - Colonel (Division)
  6. Director - Lieutenant Colonel (Department/Function)
  7. Senior Manager - Major (Section/Group)
  8. Manager - Captain (Team)
  9. Individual Contributor 
    1. Senior - First Sergeant
    2. Mid - Staff Sergeant
    3. Junior/Associate- Sergeant
  10. Entry Level - Private or Corporal

For regular employees/contributor, it is listed in these titles:

Representative, Specialist, Analyst, Coordinator, Administrator, Agent, Associate, Technician, Consultant, Generalist


In a subsidiary, it will act as a division unit led by CEO whose rank is the equivalent to Major General instead.

1. Digital & Talent Lean Sourcing Intern - BP (British Petroleum)

BP has installation in 61 countries and has a debt of $68.5B in Q3 2024

Branch: Malaysia - BP Business Service Centre Asia Sdn Bhd

Duration: 1st November 2024 - 30th April 2025 (180 days/6 months)

BP Business Service Centre Asia Sdn Bhd is BP (British Petroleum) Malaysia branch, focusing on Global Business Service (GBS). It handles support functions that enable BP's core divisions to run smoothly and efficiently.

BP first established in Malaysia in December 1964. The company have around 1,300+ employees and currently having an hybrid schedule.

Office

Address: Tower 5, Avenue 7, Bangsar South 
Bangsar South Address: 8, Jalan Kerinchi, Kerinchi, 59200 Kuala Lumpur

The building itself is around 90,825 ft² and have an available size of 724 workstations & 54 meeting rooms.

Here are the floor plans for BP company:

  • B1 - Procurement S2C: Sourcing, Partnership, Operational Integration & Category
  • L2 - Procurement S2C: CDD and Compliance, Contract, Insight & Support, Operations
  • L3 - P&C and External
  • L4 - Digital Solutions, T&S, Settlements
  • L5 - Customer, Control, and Planning
  • L6 - Finance: Internal Audit, Tax Accounting, Report & Control, and Planning & Performance Management
  • L7 - Innovation & Engineering (I&E), Castrol C&P, MyIT, HSSE
  • L8 - I&E
  • L9 - Reception and Workplace Services, Corporate Floor

BP's Main Divisions

The BP corporate structure revolves around 3 primary revenue-generating divisions, followed by key cost centers:

  • Productions & Operations (P&O)
  • Customers & Products (C&P)
  • Gas & Low Carbon Energy
Cost Centers:
  • Finance
  • Strategy, Sustainability & Ventures
  • People, Culture & Communications (P&C)
  • Supply, Trading & Shipping (T&S)
  • Legal
  • Technology

Hierarchy

This is the chain of command for my team

  1. Finance
  2. Finance Business Technology (FBT, formerly GBS)
  3. FBT Procurement S2C
  4. Digital & Talent (D&T)
  5. Lean Team
And these are the titles hierarchy in BP:

  1. CEO
  2. Executive Vice President
  3. Senior Vice President
  4. Vice President
  5. Senior Manager
  6. Manager ~ Category Manager
  7. Team Lead
In Procurement S2C, it is divided into a few departments:
  • Production & Projects
  • Operations
  • Customers & Products
  • Corporate Services
  • IT & Digital Sourcing
  • Contracting
  • S2C Excellence - Quality Assurance + Continuous Improvement 

Digital & Talent

The Digital and Talent team focused more on procuring digital related products and talent resources for the bp company team. It has 3 subteams: Lean, Business Support, and Mobility.

Lean team

The Lean means that it deals with procurement goods & services fast track for a smooth process. This meant that the contract is established and the vendors underwent Counterparty Due Diligence (CDD) 

Most of the suppliers BP faced, at least in Lean, are UK, USA and Germany originated or branch, this includes India, Netherlands and Canada. The top suppliers are Accenture, Computacenter, Dell, HCL, Infosys, Wipro, Software One, Diebold Nixdorf, Intergraph, Ernst & Young, HP, IBM, DXC 

The products lean team have to handle are software, hardware, platform services, App Development (AD) + App Maintenance (AM), Communications, Business Consultancy and more. Since its reorganization around February 2025, the D&T Lean team includes Reservoir Development & Technologies (RD&T) which handles the research goods & services such as research membership subscription and chemical services.

The main software used for the Lean business is SAP Ariba, Compass and Fairmarkit. SAP Ariba is where most of the Purchasing Requisition cases are handled along with the contracts that handled the budget.

S2C (Sourcing to Contracting) is a fast track and practical procurement process. This is going from creating requisition order, handing off and creating Purchase Order (PO, another form of contract). It falls under the P2P (Procure to Pay) process which includes operational procurement (Finance, Delivery and Review).

2. Accountant I - Micron

Branch: Malaysia - Micron Memory Malaysia Sdn Bhd

Duration: 17th November 2025 - 

Hierarchy
Finance
Accounting
Malaysia Center of Excellence
Global Finance Center
General Ledger
Cash and Interco

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