FP&A Lead Manager

CITGO Petroleum Corporation is a recognized leader in the refining industry and operates under the well-known CITGO brand. CITGO owns and operates three refineries located in Lake Charles, LA.;
Lemont, IL.; and Corpus Christi, TX, and wholly and/or jointly owns 38 active terminals, six pipelines and three lubricants blending and packaging plants. With approximately 3,300 employees and a combined crude capacity of approximately 807,000 barrels-per-day (bpd), positions CITGO as one of the best-branded supplier companies in the industry.

At CITGO our people are our most important resource. Our core values are Safety, Integrity, Respect, Accountability, and Care.

• As a FP&A Lead Manager, your performance and contribution will achieve the following goals and objectives:
• Lead and manage several sub-groups within FP&A.
• Managing planning, budgeting, management reporting, and variance analysis processes
• Provide business support decision analysis for applicable business units
• Lead monthly, quarterly, and annual FP&A processes, including management reporting, variance analysis, forecasting, and scenario planning
• Understand key revenue drivers and translate them into actionable recommendations*
• Mentorship:
  Your skills will help develop the analysts of the future, advising best practices and advancement of skills.
• Manage the FP&A team's analytical capability and bench strength through direction, mentorship, and cross-training, and cultivate strong working relationships across Treasury, Accounting, Operations, and business units to ensure alignment on financial priorities. Manage ad hoc analyses and special projects to support evolving business needs and growth
• Ensure key financial models are in place for efficient and accurate reporting
• Collaborate proactively across business functions to deliver high-quality results
• Translate operational activities into financial impacts and recommendations to executive leadership including CEO, COO, and CFO
• Provides direction and leadership to employees. Coordinates employee development planning and intra-departmental coverage.
• Serve as a strategic partner and primary point of contact to Accounting, Operations, and business unit leaders, ensuring forecasts and plans reflect a consistent, enterprise-wide view.

• Bachelors degree
• 8 years job related experience
• ERP systems (SAP, Oracle) and EPM/FP&A platforms (Oracle Planning & Budgeting Cloud Service)
• Ability to translate operational drivers into financial impact and vice versa
• Industry-specific knowledge. Understanding crack spreads, crude differentials, commodity price risk, and how those cascade through margins
• Proficiency/prior experience with energy trading and risk management (ETRM) software platform preferred
• Background in a quantitative discipline, such as finance, economics, math, or engineering.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; seeks big picture answers beyond immediate scope
• Fundamental knowledge of accounting and financial processes and reporting. Knowledge of SAP preferred
• Experience managing & taking ownership of financial models
• Experience with dashboards or model delivery (ex. Power BI) preferred
• Demonstrated ability to work in an extremely complex, dynamic and fast-paced team environment
• Strong communication skills (written and verbal)
• Ability to work effectively in a team environment

Business decision support: Work with various areas of the business to provide high quality advice on financial impacts through exceptional analytical and financial modeling skills.

Pro-actively work with the Business Units / Operations teams to better understand their business and key performance drivers to develop more robust planning processes.

Planning & forecasting: Lead the annual budgeting process and manage the development of financial forecasts. Responsible for tracking CITGO's financial performance against a plan, analyzing business performance and market conditions to create forecasts, and help senior management make tactical and strategic decisions by providing periodic reports. Conduct financial statement and general ledger analysis, including variance to forecast and prior year.

Management reporting: Provide regular updates on performance against Budget & Plan, identifying key variances and opportunities for improvement. Coordinate input from the department to develop weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual reports for presentation to Management. Drive the use of technology to automate data and/or work processes to generate efficiency.

Business analytics
:
Apply advanced analytical techniques to perform and coordinate complete analysis of a broad spectrum of business problems. Use key relationships, and knowledge of business strategy, trends and key events to identify new opportunities to improve business analytics, and performance management tools. Provide support and guidance to senior and executive management including CEO, COO, and CFO regarding financial and economic decisions.

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