About Imran Sheikh

Imran Sheikh has spent three decades at bp building and leading finance capability at scale. As SVP of Finance, Business & Technology, he oversees offshore captive finance centres across India, Hungary, and Kuala Lumpur, with responsibility for controls, risk management, and the operational discipline that keeps large organisations accountable to themselves.

He has held Non-Executive Director and chair responsibilities for SMCR-regulated entities within bp, giving him a grounding in board-level governance that informs how he thinks about accountability, oversight, and the difference between good governance on paper and in practice.
Transformation has been a constant thread in his career — leading multi-year programmes to reshape how finance teams work, adopt technology, and grow their people. Mentoring is something he takes seriously as a practice, not a policy. He has invested consistently in succession planning and in creating the conditions for people to step into roles before they feel entirely ready, because that’s usually when the real development happens.

He comes to BITC with a straightforward conviction: that responsible business isn’t a reporting exercise, it’s a leadership discipline. Thirty years in a global energy company has given him a clear view of what it looks like when organisations get that right — and when they don’t.

Outside of bp, he lives in South Croydon with his family, plays golf across Surrey and Kent, and takes his curries seriously.

Imran has served on Business in the Community’s Race Equality Leadership Team board since January 2026.