Senior BP&A Analyst; North Fuels Value Chain Optimization

Senior BP&A Analyst

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Position Summary:

The Senior BP&A Analyst is an integral team member dedicated to analyzing and reporting detailed refinery value chain outcomes in the North Region, delivering insights into refinery performance to support informed decision-making. This role involves ongoing collaboration with Value Chain Optimization (VCO) and Fuels Value Chain (FVC) to ensure alignment with analytical requirements.

Key Responsibilities:

• Reviews month-to-date refinery gross margin performance against established benchmarks and contributes to the preparation of weekly executive-level reports.
• Provides analysis of impacts to gross margin in comparison to MPCs externally reported Refining & Marketing margin indicator
• Understands refinery operations and business drivers to link operational performance and market trends to financial outcomes.
• Collaborates with VCO, FVC, Refining BP&A and Consolidation BP&A to report impact of monthly lost profit opportunity to internal and external capture
• Maintains North Region refinery index and analyzes key drivers of index to crack deviations
• Determines the breakeven crack spread for individual refineries and the North Region as a whole.
• Contributes to long-term business plans and short-term forecasts for refinery gross margin and conducts analysis of actual performance versus forecasted results.
• Works with the North Regional Director of Value Chain Optimization, operating groups, and BP&A teams to prepare quarterly Value Chain P&L reviews and provide performance insights to Refinery Leadership.
• Tracks financial impact of VCOs Continual Commercial Improvement efforts and Run as One Initiatives
• Actively seeks and implements ways to enhance processes, systems, or automation to provide more time for in-depth analysis and commentary
• Supports ad hoc requests of management, VCO and FVC for the refinery value chains

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Accounting or related discipline required.
• Six (6) years in Accounting, Finance, or related field required. Experience in BP&A and Commercial Roles preferred.
• Travel Requirement: (