Operations Finance Advisor

LNG Canada • Calgary, AB

8h • CA$121,000 - CA$152,000 • Onsite

About The Position

The Operations Finance Advisor will support the finance team with financial and analytical expertise driving focus on value, cost, and risk; support budgeting and reporting; support delivery of Finance activities required for Operations. To succeed with us in the Finance Department, we need your enthusiasm to: Demonstrate a relentless commitment towards personal and process safety. Be curious and passionate about raising the bar every day to preserve and improve long term asset value. Pride and care when dealing with people, your work, and know that every day, you have an impact on safety, your community and environment. Utilize flexible innovative thinking with well-developed problem-solving skills. Develop strong working relationships within and outside your team, stakeholders to boost co-operation and a One Team approach transcending into multi-disciplinary delivery. Drive knowledge sharing, mentoring, and coaching to accelerate team competence.

Requirements

• Experienced and competent finance professional, with a post-secondary degree in Accounting, Finance or Business Administration, professional accounting designation (ACCA, CIMA, CPA or similar)
• 7-10 years of relevant experience at a comparable level
• Relentless attention to detail and continuous improvement in setting up, testing, and executing finance, controls and accounting policies and procedures.
• Demonstrated experience in good data management and financial software implementation skills.
• Must have advanced skills in Excel, Power BI, and ERP system savvy.
• Strong business partnering experience, preferably in project or asset setting.
• Commercial curiosity to fully understand and explore value opportunities.
• Ability to analyze financial and non-financial information and communicate outcomes to people from various backgrounds.
• Strong problem-solving and decision modelling skills
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with all levels throughout the organization, and experience participating in cross-functional initiatives or projects.
• Be legally entitled to work in Canada (i.e., by way of Canadian citizenship, permanent residency, or valid work permit)
• Know that this role supports our Kitimat operations, and at times overnight travel may be required.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with benchmarking exercises for manufacturing or producing assets will be considered an asset.

Responsibilities

• Provide finance expertise to allocated client groups as we gain operational momentum
• Support planning and budgeting processes and financial assurance events
• Provide capacity to manage big data sets, able to aggregate, summarize and distill trends and variances explanation, run scenarios, and provide management summaries for presentations.
• Support implementation of planning and appraisal software, conversion of data, supporting business to use the new tool, learn to create workflows and reports in the software implemented.
• Provide analytical capacity to finance, value & risk assessment throughout the contracting process for new contracts.
• Understand ERP systems, currently SAP, materials, fixed assets and capital spares accounting, tariffing, and cost allocations and how to be set in the system and analyzed for variances.

What This Job Offers

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