What are the responsibilities and job description for the Financial Planning Manager-LNG Operations position at Sempra LNG?
Primary Purpose
Lead and manage the development and maintenance of the financial plans and forecasts for the LNG Operations Services Group, a shared service supporting all LNG and related operations development, ongoing physical operations, advising best practices, and developing KPI's across LNG assets within Sempra Infrastructure. This position will have the key responsibilities of developing financial models and business planning and analysis, proactively partnering with the physical operations personnel, RFO, E&C, Accounting, SI planning, treasury, and tax groups, meeting with and reviewing proposals from key vendors, and developing bottom up estimates for physical plant activities including Turn Around, consumables forecasting, etc., to ensure a robust planning process, and coordinate variance analysis with actual results, and identify emerging issues. The role will also be responsible for reviewing past and current models to drive improvement in support of development efforts.
Duties and Responsibilities
Lead and manage the development and maintenance of the financial plans and forecasts for the LNG Operations Services Group, a shared service supporting all LNG and related operations development, ongoing physical operations, advising best practices, and developing KPI's across LNG assets within Sempra Infrastructure. This position will have the key responsibilities of developing financial models and business planning and analysis, proactively partnering with the physical operations personnel, RFO, E&C, Accounting, SI planning, treasury, and tax groups, meeting with and reviewing proposals from key vendors, and developing bottom up estimates for physical plant activities including Turn Around, consumables forecasting, etc., to ensure a robust planning process, and coordinate variance analysis with actual results, and identify emerging issues. The role will also be responsible for reviewing past and current models to drive improvement in support of development efforts.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Provides direction to and develops principal and senior analysts.
- Manages the development of the short- and long-term financial Operating models based on experience, through analysis of current and previous trends, previous development work, and corporate goals, inclusive of periodic outlooks against current assumptions.
- Leads the development of standardized Operations labor and nonlabor (OPEX) models and continuous improvement methods.
- Leads the development and manages the preparation of OPEX estimates for development and ongoing projects.
- Leads the development of benchmarking processes for Operations plans used for projects in development, and supports benchmarking efforts for operating plant assets.
- Prepares presentations to communicate proposed Operations models and Benchmarking including identifying high-risk and deviations.
- Performs other duties as assigned (no more than 5% of duties).
- Provides financial modeling for development and operational LNG billion-dollar project.
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics or related field required. Master's degree preferred.
- 10 years of related financial experience required.
- 5 years of LNG OPEX development experience, with direct physical plant interaction required.
- 2 years of management experience preferred.
- Experience with analyzing and developing financial and business OPEX models.
- Analytical and financial modeling skills in Excel.
- Developing presentations on work products and tailoring style and content to effectively engage and inform diverse audiences.
- Project management and organization skills, ability to manage multiple tasks.
- Committed to excellence and timely results.
- Written and verbal communication skills. Ability to tailor written content for diverse audiences, including executives, company personnel, and external counterparts.
- Ability to plan and lead discussions.
- Relationship building skills for internal and external audiences with all levels. Demonstrated ability to work in cross functional teams and across Business Units.
- Ability to manage and develop others.
- CFA/GARP preferred.
- Ability to travel upwards 20% may be required.
