What are the responsibilities and job description for the Financial Performance Manager position at Strategic Staffing Solutions?
My client, a world leading Energy company are looking for a Midstream Financial Performance Manager to work on several commercial finance initiatives in 2025. This role will be an initial 12-month contract and will pay up to $100 an hour, depending on experience. Please note this is a W2 engagement. Hybrid model, 3 days in office, 2 at home.
Experience (required):
- Bachelor's degree or higher is required but flexible on degree area (Finance, Accounting, Engineering, etc).
- Significant experience (8 years) in finance or commercial vital, with experience across financial reporting/analysis and commercial operations/development.
- Ability to interpret and communicate financial information and commercial drivers with transparency, provide insights to deliver business improvement and to optimize and protect value.
- Experience managing and balancing multiple partner groups.
Responsibilities (will include, but not be limited to):
- Cost: Work through multiple action items. As these actions are completed, formal updates to the P&L may be identified and actioned.
- Biofuels: Partnering with the business to review end to end processes and enhance existing analytics related to biofuels federal and state compliance programs.
- Investment Governance: Building additional rigor around the investment governance and capital effectiveness processes.
- Work directly with the Head of Planning and Performance Management to complete an end-to-end cost review of the business, create, and follow up investigative paths, track actions, and follow through to delivered cost savings.
- Support the collective Midstream finance team in conducting a comprehensive gross margin review including cost-in-margin.
- Lead monthly biofuels analytics process, end to end process reviews, and implement improvements to enhance analytics and provide business insights on performance.
- Build and maintain tools to track and manage the investment portfolio, including implementation of structured processes, performance management, and control monitoring.
Desirable criteria
- Proven energy industry experience, with emphasis supply, logistics, and trading or biofuels federal and state program compliance
- Prior demonstrated ability to create new processes and ways of working without a roadmap
- Strong influencing abilities to build consensus and engagement with key partners at all levels and across the organization
- Knowledge of Power BI, SAP, Excel, Access, VBA, SQL, etc.
Salary : $90 - $100