Principal Analyst, FP&A

FP&A Principal Analyst is primarily responsible for supporting the business by providing analysis and insight useful for critical decision making across the organization.

Key responsibilities include ensuring budget development and compliance to support budget holders, maintaining and improving underlying cost structure and modeling, providing timely and meaningful analysis, and working with key stakeholders across the organization to update forecasts and business plans.

This position will be located Houston, TX, with occasional travel to the plant in Hackberry.

Specific Responsibilities Include

• Working closely with budget holders to understand and financially reflect the underlying business activities
• Supporting budget holders in structured and ad-hoc analysis, including variance analysis
• Contributing to the budget, forecast and business planning exercises
• Maintaining key models and calculations
• Maintaining cost master data in SAP/BPC/Power BI
• Coordinating team activities as it relates to external engagements, e.g. audits, benchmarking exercises etc.
• Providing economic analysis to support capital project evaluation
• Consolidating KPIs reports
• Maintaining focus on continuous improvement and cost optimization
• Performing other tasks as assigned

Qualifications

Education:

• Master’s degree from an accredited university in accounting, finance, economics or another business discipline
• CFA, CMA, or CPA desirable

• 10+ year of financial experience and 6+ years of financial planning and analysis experience.

• Thorough knowledge of financial reporting, financial modeling, and accounting
• Advanced knowledge of SAP and SAP BPC
• Advanced skills in Excel (Excel VBA knowledge is a plus), PowerPoint, and PowerBI
• Ability to effectively manage multiple competing priorities
• Team oriented and comfortable adapting to change
• High attention to detail
• Excellent analytical and communication skills
• Excellent stakeholder management skills

• 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 provided to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions as defined per Company policy.