What are the responsibilities and job description for the Principal Financial Analyst position at Cameron LNG LLC?
Primary Purpose:
The Principal Financial Analyst is responsible for managing the corporate consolidation, reporting, and budgeting activities, maintaining the underlying cost structure, and acting as BPC Subject Matter Expert. The scope also includes, for Head Office departments, developing the 5-year O&M budgets, preparing rolling forecasts, and executing the monthly close.
This position will be located Houston, TX, with occasional travel to Hackberry.
Responsibilities/Duties:
- Manage the corporate consolidation, reporting, and budgeting activities, including Operations & Maintenance (O&M) cost model, analysis and reports to the executive management, Accounting & Finance technical committee, and the customers
- Prepare presentations for monthly financial performance reviews, yearly budget submissions, and financial updates to the Board
- Maintain and update the assigned budgeting and forecasting models, such as liquefaction O&M, base project, tugs, depreciation, property tax, revenue, and financial statements
- Assume full financial ownership of assigned scope of budgets and actuals
- Prepare, analyze and validate accounting actuals and accruals related to Head Office departments on a monthly basis
- Produce monthly variance analysis against plan and forecast
- Explain variance analysis to budget owners and management
- Produce monthly rolling forecast, yearly budget and 5-year O&M budgets for Head Office departments
- Participate in the 5-year business plan exercise
- Perform the role of BPC Subject Matter Expert for forecasting and budgeting activities, including the reconciliation between SAP and BPC data, uploading production data, copying data between categories, and maintaining the structure routine/non-routine in BPC
- Initialize and maintain forecasting and budgeting templates
- Maintain underlying cost master data in SAP (work breakdown structure and cost centers)
- Improve and automate financial performance reporting, dashboards and KPI’s using SAP BPC and Power BI
- Prepare the Benchmarking data for Head Office departments, and consolidate the overall data submission
- Prepare and coordinate the filing of tax rebate claims and renewal of tax exemption contracts
- Maintain up-to-date policies and procedures
- Perform other duties as assigned
Qualifications:
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree or higher from an accredited university in accounting, finance, economics or another business discipline
- CPA preferred
- MBA preferred
Experience:
- 10 year of financial experience of which 4 year of financial audit (Big Four accounting firms preferred) and 6 years of financial planning and analysis experience.
Skills/ Knowledge/ Abilities:
- Requires a thorough knowledge of accounting, financial reporting and modeling
- Expert knowledge of SAP and SAP BPC (including financial report development in SAP BPC)
- Knowledge of Power BI is a plus
- Advanced Excel skills (Excel VBA knowledge is a plus)
- Advanced PowerPoint skills
- Ability to manage different projects simultaneously and meet deadlines
- Excellent analytical and communication skills
- Team Player, multitasking and responding rapidly to frequent changes
- Ability to interact with all levels of management in a professional and team-building manner.
- Demonstrates attention to detail
- Willingness to work extended hours during Financial Close and Budget Season (when needed)
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 made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions as defined per Company policy.
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