Principal Analyst, FP&A

Purpose:

FP&A Principal Analyst is primarily responsible for supporting the business by providing analysis and insight useful for critical decision making across the organization.

Key responsibilities include ensuring budget development and compliance to support budget holders, maintaining and improving underlying cost structure and modeling, providing timely and meaningful analysis, and working with key stakeholders across the organization to update forecasts and business plans.

This position will be located Houston, TX, with occasional travel to the plant in Hackberry.

Specific

Responsibilities include:

Working closely with budget holders to understand and financially reflect the underlying business activities

Supporting budget holders in structured and ad-hoc analysis, including variance analysis

Contributing to the budget, forecast and business planning exercises

Maintaining key models and calculations

Maintaining cost master data in SAP/BPC/Power BICoordinating team activities as it relates to external engagements, e.g. audits, benchmarking exercises etc.

Providing economic analysis to support capital project evaluation

Consolidating KPIs reports

Maintaining focus on continuous improvement and cost optimization

Performing other tasks as assigned  Page Break

Qualifications:

Education:

Master’s degree from an accredited university in accounting, finance, economics or another business disciplineCFA, CMA, or CPA desirable

Experience:

10+ year of financial experience and 6+ years of financial planning and analysis experience.

Skills/ Knowledge/ Abilities:

Thorough knowledge of financial reporting, financial modeling, and accounting

Advanced knowledge of SAP and SAP BPCAdvanced skills in Excel (Excel VBA knowledge is a plus), PowerPoint, and PowerBIAbility to effectively manage multiple competing priorities

Team oriented and comfortable adapting to change

High attention to detail

Excellent analytical and communication skills

Excellent stakeholder management skills

Physical Requirements:

This position requires minimal physical effort.

Must be able to endure prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer for a minimum of 8 hours a day
* Reasonable accommodations may be provided to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions as defined per Company policy.