Lead Finance Analyst

Delek • Brentwood, TN

15h

About The Position

The Lead Finance Analyst is a highly visible, hands-on strategic and analytical leader within Delek US Holdings’ Finance organization. Reporting to the Vice President of Finance, the role partners with executive leadership and cross-functional teams to evaluate major investments, capital projects, transactions, commercial opportunities, and other strategic initiatives. It also provides financial and analytical support for CEO and CFO priorities and special projects, translating complex or ambiguous business questions into structured analyses and clear recommendations.

The successful candidate combines rigorous financial analysis, transaction experience, business judgment, and executive communication. The role involves building sophisticated financial models, leading or supporting cross-functional diligence, challenging assumptions, and presenting recommendations to senior leadership. Relevant backgrounds may include investment banking, private equity, corporate development, transaction advisory, strategic finance, or similarly rigorous financial environments. The position supports the organization’s strategy and vision and is subject to other duties assigned by management. Activities must comply with applicable laws and regulations, including Equal Employment Opportunity laws, HIPAA, and ERISA.

Delek describes itself as a diversified downstream energy company with refining and logistics assets. Its refineries in Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana have a combined crude capacity of 302,000 barrels per day. Its logistics business operates pipelines, a crude oil gathering system, storage tanks, and terminals.

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 one or more 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 analyses of the economic, strategic, and risk implications of potential decisions.
• Prepare executive-ready presentations, decision materials, and financial analyses, including materials for Board-level discussions as appropriate.
• Provide analytical support for executive 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 the financial diligence approach, key questions, analytical workstreams, information requirements, and decision criteria for major projects.
• Coordinate diligence inputs across Finance, Operations, Commercial, Corporate Development, Engineering, Accounting, Treasury, Tax, Legal, Technology, and other functions.
• 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 linking 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 financial analyses as appropriate.
• Evaluate the impact 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 for transparent assumptions, source documentation, scenario definitions, version control, and review processes.

Benefits

• 401(k) match of up to 10%, with a one-year vesting timeline.
• Medical benefits starting on the first day of employment, 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