Summary:
The Financial Analyst turns complex financial and operational data into accurate, meaningful insight for decision-making across the organization. The role has primary responsibility for mark-to-market reporting and related supply chain analytics, while also supporting month-end reporting, planning, forecasting, and cross-functional projects. This position is well suited for a curious, detail-oriented analyst who enjoys working closely with data, understanding how business activity flows through the financial results, and improving the processes and tools used to report
Primary Duties:
- Lead the recurring mark-to-market process for trading and contract activity, including data preparation, validation, analysis, reporting, documentation, and communication of results.
- Develop a strong understanding of commodity markets, procurement, transportation, trading activity, and contract economics to explain performance drivers, financial impacts, and emerging risks.
- Analyze financial and operational data to identify trends, exceptions, and underlying business drivers, and translate findings into clear, actionable insights for Finance and business leaders.
- Partner with Supply Chain, Accounting, Finance, IT, and other teams to resolve data issues and improve the accuracy, consistency, and usefulness of reporting.
- Develop financial models, scenario analyses, dashboards, and recurring or ad hoc reporting to support business decisions and strategic initiatives.
- Support month-end close and management reporting, including assigned journal entries, reconciliations, accruals, supporting schedules, variance analysis, and financial commentary.
- Connect operational activity to the general ledger and management results by investigating unusual activity, validating source data, and explaining actual performance versus plan, forecast, and prior periods.
- Support the annual plan, recurring forecasts, long-range planning, executive and Board materials, and other Finance or cross-functional projects as needed.
- Proactively identify and implement opportunities to simplify, standardize, automate, and strengthen financial and analytical processes, including expanded use of ERP, Power BI, workflow, and AI-assisted tools.
- Maintain appropriate documentation and controls, balance recurring responsibilities with project-based work, and perform other duties as assigned.
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