Lead Finance Analyst

Delek US • Brentwood, TN

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About The Position

The Lead Finance Analyst serves as a strategic and analytical leader within Delek US Holdings’ Finance organization, leading scenario modeling, financial decision support, diligence, and Board reporting support for high-priority initiatives. Reporting to the Vice President of Finance, the analyst partners with executive leadership and cross-functional teams to evaluate major investments, capital projects, transactions, commercial opportunities, and other strategic initiatives. The role also supports CEO and CFO priorities and special projects, turning complex or ambiguous business questions into structured analyses and clear recommendations.

This visible, hands-on position combines rigorous financial analysis, transaction experience, business judgment, and executive communication. The successful candidate will build sophisticated financial models, lead cross-functional diligence processes, challenge assumptions, and present recommendations to senior leadership. Relevant backgrounds may include investment banking, private equity, corporate development, transaction advisory, strategic finance, or similarly rigorous financial environments.

The role supports the organization’s strategy and vision. Duties may be assigned or reassigned by management, and activities must comply with applicable Equal Employment Opportunity laws, HIPAA, ERISA, and other regulations.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, Engineering, or a related field (required).
• 8–10 years of relevant experience (required).
• Meaningful experience in at least one of the following: investment banking; private equity or infrastructure investing; corporate development; transaction advisory or financial due diligence; or advanced FP&A or investment analysis within a complex operating organization.
• Demonstrated experience building sophisticated financial models and evaluating strategic alternatives from the ground up.
• Experience leading or supporting transaction, diligence, investment, capital project, or other complex analytical workstreams.
• Strong understanding of financial statements, cash flow, valuation, investment returns, capital structure, and key accounting concepts.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.
• Ability to translate complex financial and operational information into clear, actionable recommendations.
• Strong executive-level written, verbal, and presentation skills.
• Ability to work effectively amid ambiguity, changing priorities, and time-sensitive decisions.
• Demonstrated judgment, discretion, and integrity when handling confidential and market-sensitive information.

Nice To Haves

• CFA or completion of CFA Level 1.
• Experience evaluating M&A transactions, capital projects, partnerships, financing alternatives, or portfolio optimization opportunities.
• Experience presenting analyses and recommendations to CEOs, CFOs, investment committees, Boards, private equity sponsors, lenders, or other senior decision-makers.
• Experience managing, coaching, or developing analysts and other finance professionals.
• Familiarity with enterprise planning, ERP, business intelligence, and financial data platforms.
• Experience connecting investment or transaction models to budgets, forecasts, and post-investment performance measurement.

Responsibilities

• Partner with the Vice President of Finance, CEO, CFO, and other senior leaders to evaluate strategic opportunities, investments, and enterprise priorities.
• Structure complex or ambiguous business questions into analytical frameworks and decision alternatives.
• Develop financial analyses assessing the economic, strategic, and risk implications of potential decisions.
• Translate complex financial and operational information into concise, executive-ready recommendations.
• Develop presentations, decision materials, and financial analyses for executive leadership and, as appropriate, Board-level discussions.
• Provide analytical support for CEO and CFO priorities, executive leadership priorities, special projects, and emerging business opportunities.
• Support financial and commercial diligence for capital projects, acquisitions, divestitures, partnerships, investments, commercial opportunities, and other strategic initiatives.
• Establish financial diligence approaches, key questions, analytical workstreams, information requirements, and decision criteria for major projects.
• Coordinate work and inputs across Finance, Operations, Commercial, Corporate Development, Engineering, Accounting, Treasury, Tax, Legal, Technology, and other functional areas.
• Evaluate historical and projected financial performance, cash flow, capital requirements, working capital, contractual economics, operating assumptions, market conditions, and potential synergies.
• Identify risks, opportunities, dependencies, and sensitivities that could affect project economics, valuation, timing, financing requirements, or execution.
• Synthesize diligence findings into a Finance perspective and recommendation for executive decision-making.
• Develop sophisticated financial models for strategic investments, transactions, capital allocation, and other enterprise decisions.
• Build integrated scenarios connecting operational and commercial assumptions to revenue, EBITDA, cash flow, capital expenditures, working capital, financing requirements, leverage, and investment returns.
• Develop base, upside, downside, stress, delay, and alternative-structure scenarios.
• Perform valuation, sensitivity, break-even, return, payback, accretion/dilution, liquidity, and other relevant financial analyses.
• Evaluate the effects of changes in pricing, volume, costs, timing, financing, capital requirements, market conditions, and other assumptions.
• Challenge and pressure-test assumptions provided by business and functional teams.
• Establish modeling standards covering transparent assumptions, source documentation, scenario definitions, version control, and review processes.

Benefits

• 401(k) match of up to 10%, available from hire start, with a one-year vesting timeline.
• Medical benefits beginning on day one, with an annual 30% premium rebate.
• Free access to the Calm app for meditation, stress management, and sleep support.
• Opportunity to earn additional annual incentives through the performance management program.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior