Job Title: FP&A Advisor
Employment Type: Contact
Location: Houston, TX 77056 – Hybrid
Planning:
- Coordinate the preparation of annual budgets, re-forecasts, and medium-term business plans
- Partner with the GBU Finance Business Partner to presents those financial forecasts to management
- Collaborate with the Partnership Management team to prepare and present partnership financial and operational forecasts to external partners
- Ensure reporting accuracy by partnering with accounting and IT. This includes but is not limited to data mapping and creating new reporting structures
Analysis:
- Engage across the organization to maintain a high level of business understanding to develop, validate, and communicate best estimates and early warnings
- Respond quickly and accurately to ad hoc analysis requests from senior Management
- Coordinate financial forecast and analysis deliverables managing delivery against multiple deadlines
- Month-End Reporting:
- Ensure monthly closing quality by validating the monthly financial. Compare those results to the budget and most recent best estimate and analyze the reasonableness of results based on key performance indicators and market dynamics
- Monitor and validate key financial indicators, including operating margin, OPEX, Capex, net debt, capital employed, and other metrics that communicates to its investor community
- Reforecast the income statement and cash flows based business activities and with the support of operational colleagues
- Collaborate with the Partnership Management team to prepare periodic partnership financial reports that are comparable to the financial forecasts noted above
- Financial Results Analysis
- Analyze monthly income statement variances versus budget, the most recent reforecast, and prior year, providing analytical commentaries and recommending corrective actions
- Provide operating margin variance analysis via a deep understanding of the drivers of the income statement, including energy volumes, energy prices, hedging activities, and inventory costs consumed.
- Provide cash flow analysis focused on milestones and balance sheet structures driving cash flow from operations and capital expenditures
- Prepare presentations for Executive meetings
- Coordinate ad hoc operational performance and KPI analysis
- Collaborate with operations teams to perform ad hoc analysis on specific topics, such as general and administrative expenses and business efficiency
Development and Improvement:
Contribute to strategic cross-functional projects:
- Liaise with IT:
- to develop financial analytical reports
- to run and maintain our analytical database
- Identify and implement business process improvements to facilitate data flows between financial reporting systems to produce more efficient and relevant outputs and to enhance the control environment
Skills and Qualifications:
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in Finance
- Bachelor’s degree is required. MBA, Master of Science, or Master of Arts in finance, accounting, or a related field is preferred
- Strong information technology skills
- Microsoft Office Suite, including Advanced Excel proficiency is required
- Knowledge of SAP S4, Analytical Cloud, and Fiori is preferred
- Expertise in financial modeling is preferred
- Data visualization skills
- Strong analytical and hands-on problem-solving skills are required
- Initiative and adaptability with an attention to detail are required
- Strong oral and written communication skills are required
- Excellent interpersonal skills are key for cross-functional collaboration and exposure to senior leadership
- Ability to thrive in an agile, fast-paced work environment is required
- Project management skills are preferred
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