Job description
Worker Type: Employee
Group: Refinery Accounting Department
Job Post End Date: 06/02/2023
About this opportunity:
Reporting to the Senior Manager, Refinery Accounting at Ohio Refining Company LLC (ORC), you will have a lead role in ensuring the accuracy and completeness of the financial close process and financial reporting in accordance with Cenovus and ORC Financial Leadership directives, policies, and procedures. A solid understanding of the refinery revenue cycle and revenue/COGS reporting is required in addition to understanding the expenses and capitalized costs incurred and budgeted to cost centers and AFEs. Ensuring standardized processes and reporting alignment between actual results and forecasts along with the timely communication of financial reporting to the BU is paramount. Specifically, you will have lead role in assuring accounting and process controls are in place and operating effectively with respect to financial and management reporting, account reconciliations and other special projects.
About Cenovus:
We’re a Canadian-based integrated energy company headquartered in Calgary. We’re committed to maximizing value by sustainably developing our assets in a safe, innovative, and cost-efficient manner, integrating environmental, social and governance considerations into our business plans.
We operate in Canada, the United States, and the Asia Pacific region. Our operations include oil sands projects in northern Alberta, thermal and conventional crude oil and natural gas projects across Western Canada, crude oil production offshore Newfoundland and Labrador and natural gas and liquids production offshore China and Indonesia. Cenovus’s downstream operations include upgrading, refining, and marketing operations in Canada and the United States.
Our shares trade under the symbol CVE and are listed on the Toronto as well as the New York stock exchanges.
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Why we work at Cenovus:
- Safety as a core value
- Competitive compensation
- Employer paid benefits: health, dental, vision & more
- Volunteering opportunities
- Community Investment activities
- Inclusive work environment
- Career progression/internal mobility opportunities
- Company/team building events
Responsibilities:
- Act as the key liaison between accounting, TSL, Products Marketing, VCOP, and volume yield accountant
- Heavy focus on Gross Margin and Value Chain
- Maintain and develop tools and models for refinery performance consistent with guidance from central finance and other US Manufacturing Finance teams.
- Support performance reporting and planning cycles including actuals, forecasts, budgets, and long-term plans and plan submittals while ensuring the timeliness, integrity and accuracy of data inputs.
- Provide finance and accounting services (including accruals, allocations, inter-company transactions, preparation and analysis of business unit financial documents etc.)
- Develop and recommend performance actions/interventions with Refinery and senior Cenovus leadership which provide an understanding of underlying business performance trends and drivers, such that appropriate interventions can be identified and enacted.
- Contribute to driving performance management processes that incorporate performance reporting and analysis and competitive benchmarking.
- Conduct analytical deep dives on specific performance issues, as needed.
- Take initiative to become a SAP reporting power user and MS Excel intermediate/expert user through focused training and leveraging expertise from other Cenovus US Manufacturing sites
- Act as a focal point under direction from the ORC Senior Manager, Refinery Accounting for corporate initiatives and process improvements projects and coordinating activities as appropriate
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree required with a specialization in Business, Finance, Economics, or Engineering preferred.
- 5 years of financial analysis experience; Finance background.
- Strong analytical, financial control, reporting skills; Able to interpret and communicate financial information with clarity.
- Intermediate to Advanced Excel skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
- 3 years of Refinery experience or similar.
- Demonstrate awareness of Solomon survey, refinery benchmarking and operational performance indicators.
- Experience working with SAP, Power BI
- Strong Business Sense – Understanding the business beyond the numbers
- Ability to provide guidance in all financial areas including reporting and planning.
- Ability to interact with all levels of management in a professional manner.
- Understanding of system controls, financial controls and risk assessment.
- Strong impact, interpersonal, networking and communication skills and able to make a significant contribution to local management team.
- Travel – 5-10% of role. Small amount of travel could be required for training and best practice sharing between other Cenovus Downstream US Manufacturing sites including refineries at Lima OH and Superior WI, and HMSC Offices in Dublin OH
Cenovus Energy is an affirmative action employer, and we are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to qualified applicants without regard to age, disability, genetic information, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, veteran status, national origin, or personal or physical characteristics protected by law.
At Cenovus we embrace diversity of thought, experience, and backgrounds to help us make better business decisions, address our challenges, seize opportunities, and unlock innovative solutions. We define diversity as the variety of people, including all the unique attributes of our staff, and the variety of ideas within our organization. Building an inclusive workplace by drawing on the skills and talents of a diverse workforce provides Cenovus with a competitive advantage. We believe it’s important to maximize the potential of everyone who works for our company and ensure all people feel respected, appreciated, and heard. We define inclusion as ‘diversity in action,’ creating an environment of involvement, respect, and connection for all employees, where various ideas, backgrounds and perspectives are harnessed to create business value.
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This posting represents the desired scope, accountabilities, skills, and experience requirements of the job. These requirements may be modified to support business needs. Title and compensation administration will be based on the skills and capabilities of the successful incumbent.
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