Financial Planning & Analysis Role - Cost/Business Performance

Must have educational qualifications:

Business Partnering and Performance Insights:

- Establish and maintain a proactive business partnering relationship with the relevant Business/Function Leadership team. Ensure underlying performance is well understood. Proactively challenge and propose performance improvements. Monitor and investigate anomalies and trends.

- Support the Performance Management agenda for the entities in scope: Ensure robust and timely forecasts. Deliver MI analysis and commentary for the leadership team.

- Monitor and support cost reduction initiatives: Ensure effective tracking and accurate analysis of profitability. Analyze and interpret actuals. Support reporting and cost allocation processes.

Strategy & Planning:

- Support the annual planning process: Ensure plans are appropriately challenged and assured.

- Produce detailed cost forecasts covering pre and post allocation view: Draw insights and highlight areas where performance targets are not being met.

- Submit plan/forecast data into relevant cost management systems: Ensure data quality in the submissions.

- Support ad-hoc and strategic business decisions: Understand the implications balancing risk and reward.

- Participate in projects and provide financial insight.

Performance Reporting:

- Responsible for the cost performance reporting activities of the respective business.

- Provide timely, accurate, and reliable financial and management information.

- Explain the underlying delivery of actuals vs. forecasts on a monthly/quarterly basis: Update in-year outlook.

- Provide input for the MI recharge process for the entities: Ensure costs are recharged fairly and accurately.

- Support the drive for continuous improvement in MI: Ensure integrity and accuracy to meet business requirements.

Continuous Improvement:

- Continuously improve cost related systems and processes to increase automation and move towards increasing the self-service model.

- Business/Finance or Engineering Discipline Degree level or equivalent or Degree in Data Analytics or related discipline.

Preferred education/certifications:

- Masters in computer science/related

Minimum years of relevant experience:

- 8-19 years of relevant post degree experience, working across multiple segments

Preferred experience:

- Experience within global, complex and matrix organizations, preferably within an Oil & Gas business.

- Proficiency in SAP/ERP systems, SQL, Power BI, Power Apps, and data visualization tools.

- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

- Experience with Business MI and report building.

Must have experiences/skills (To be hired with):

- Experience in Data Ownership, Architecture, and Governance processes

- Knowledge and experience with Data Visualization tools (Power BI, Tableau)

- Hands-on experience in AWS

- Skills in various project delivery methodologies, including Agile

- analytical and problem-solving skills

- Scrum or Agile experience

- Business awareness and understanding of factors driving commercial performance

- Relationship management, effective communication, and influencing skills with diverse stakeholders

- Data management and IT skills