Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)
Budgeting & Forecasting: Lead the annual budgeting process and monthly forecasting cycles. This includes collaborating with trading, operations, and G&A departments to establish targets and projections.
Variance Analysis: Conduct in- depth analysis of actual financial performance against budget, forecast, and prior periods. Provide commentary and actionable insights on key variances to senior management and business unit heads.
Management Reporting: Prepare and present comprehensive monthly/semi- annually management reports that summarize key financial metrics, performance trends, and business insights.
Finance Business Partnering & Reporting
Business Partnering: Act as a strategic partner to business unit leaders (e.g., trading, operations) to help them understand financial performance and drive business outcomes. Provide commercial insight and challenge assumptions.
Performance Reporting: Collaborate with the accounting team to ensure the timely and accurate financial close. Translate the resulting financial statements into clear, actionable reports and dashboards that help business leaders make data- driven decisions.
Ad- Hoc Analysis: Conduct specialized analysis to support business unit requests, such as profitability analysis by commodity, customer, or market.
Risk Management & Trading Support
Position & Futures Reporting: Work closely with the trading desk to track and report on open futures positions, market- to- market valuations, and hedging effectiveness.
Policy & Procedures: Assist in the development and enforcement of risk management policies and internal controls related to trading activities.
System design, Data & Controls
Ensure strong data governance, standardization of master data (COA, cost centers, reporting structures), and integration across module.
Lead post go- live stabilization, continuous improvement and automation initiative within the finance functions.
Collaborate with IT, external consultants, and process owner on system upgrades, process improvement and automation initiatives.
