Manager LRP & OneStream Governance

LyondellBasell North America•Houston, TX

About The Position

This role contributes to delivering value and driving excellence in the Long Range Plan (LRP) process, Performance Plan process (budgeting), Corporate Financial Analysis and Reporting, and Corporate OneStream governance. The expertise of the individual in this role will be essential in supporting the Long Range Plan and Performance Plan processes, corporate OneStream strategy, other strategic initiatives and special projects while delivering insightful forecast analysis and ad hoc analysis supporting leadership. This role requires a solid understanding of the planning and forecasting process and how internal and external data sources are integrated and utilized to ensure accurate analysis supporting strategic decision-making and promote consistent and standardized data usage across the organization enabling reliable data-driven insights. This role reports to the Senior Manager LRP & OneStream Governance.

Requirements

Accounting, Finance, or related business degree with ideally 10+ years of relevant FP&A (financial planning and analysis), business services, accounting, corporate finance, or other analytical experience required.
Understanding of the enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems (e.g. SAP, OneStream, HFM, BPC).
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to effectively build and maintain solid relationship with internal/external stakeholders, and strong presentation skills to message and communicate results clearly and concisely.
Ability to work under pressure to multi-task, prioritize, and effectively manage key stakeholder expectations.
Ability to make sound decisions, while closely engaging and staying aligned with the rest of the FP&A team and other business service functions.

Nice To Haves

CPA/CFA/MBA preferred.
Experience in the chemical industry or manufacturing environment with strong analytical skills is preferred.
Experience with Business intelligence (BI) software is a plus.
Experience with financial modeling and econometrics is a plus.
Ability to manage process changes with finance project management and implementation experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

Support the annual LRP and performance plan processes, collaborating with businesses to deliver consolidated corporate financial views.
Provide in-depth financial/economic analysis and prepare high-quality presentation materials to support Board meetings, Capital Markets Day, ongoing corporate/finance strategy development, and other ad hoc management requests.
Contribute to the development of the company’s enterprise driver model to support enterprise-wide forecasting and scenario analysis.
Lead and/or actively participate in corporate initiatives and cross-functional projects to drive continuous improvement and efficiencies in FP&A and other Finance processes including: Support corporate governance and strategy for the standardized use of and enhanced OneStream. Support the implementation of corporate transformation initiatives. Develop and implement corporate predictive analytics / artificial intelligence forecasting models.
Partner with the finance organization to standardize and streamline processes, implement improvements, remove roadblocks, and increase the reliability and efficiency of reporting.