Financial Planning Analyst (Hybrid)

Kinder Morgan•Houston, TX

20h•Hybrid

About The Position

As a member of the Natural Gas Financial Planning organization, the successful candidate will be responsible for coordination, consolidation, and analysis of financial forecasts, budgets, and long-range outlooks for various assets in Kinder Morgan’s Natural Gas East Region business unit. This crucial position includes responsibilities for all FP&A activities for several major pipelines, which generate a significant portion of the company’s earnings and represent a meaningful portion of the expansion project backlog.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Finance or Accounting
Must possess strong analysis, forecasting, planning and reporting skills
Proficiency with various technologies and the ability to quickly navigate, process, and succinctly report on large quantities of data spread across multiple systems
Financial modeling and planning experience (midstream or oil and gas preferred)
Working knowledge of natural gas transportation and storage preferred
Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including proficiency in VLOOKUP, INDEX, MATCH, and SUMIF functions, expertise in creating and manipulating PivotTables, knowledge of Macros and Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), proficiency in creating advanced charts and graphs, experience with data validation techniques, and the ability to handle large volumes of data efficiently
Ability to solve complex problems and provide solutions-oriented analysis
Exhibit a high degree of initiative and perform tasks with minimal supervision
Must be adept at communicating forecast, budget, and actual results to management and accounting both in detail and at a high level, depending on audience
Must be comfortable interfacing with all levels of management, and with those outside of the planning organization, in order to obtain data necessary to complete forecasting responsibilities
Thorough knowledge of accounting policies, procedures, and processes
Develop and maintain good, working relationships with Accounting, Commercial, and Operations teams
Proficiency with Microsoft Office

Nice To Haves

MBA and/or CPA Preferred

Responsibilities

Collaborate with teammates to provide timely and meaningful analysis to Senior Management for use in the strategic and tactical decision-making process
Develop reporting packages
Prepare bi-weekly forecasts
Construct and manage financial models
Colloborate with Business Development to understand and include the financial impact of growth projects to company financial projections
Coordinate activities for routine deliverables, PwC audit requests, and ad hoc requests
Preparation of financial analysis for quarterly business reviews
Investigate anomalies and prepare monthly actual vs. forecast and budget variance analysis
Lead, guide, and mentor other team members
Leverage PowerBI to enhance reporting
Collaborate with Commercial and other groups to develop the annual budget
Run pricing, operational, and volume sensitivities
Perform ad hoc financial analysis and review project economics to provide support to the Commercial and Business Development teams
Develop financial analysis to support business decisions and capital expenditures
Frequent communication with various business segments and corporate functions to stay abreast of operational impacts on financial information
Improve financial models and processes while maintaining the integrity of all financial information
Prepare special projects and perform research as requested by management
Travel to Birmingham, Alabama satellite office regularly (10-20% travel)