Senior BP&A Analyst (Refinery Value Chain Analytics)

Marathon Petroleum Corporation • Findlay, OH

18d

About The Position

An exciting career awaits you At MPC, we’re committed to being a great place to work – one that welcomes new ideas, encourages diverse perspectives, develops our people, and fosters a collaborative team environment. Position Summary: The Senior BP&A Analyst is an integral team member dedicated to analyzing and reporting detailed refinery value chain outcomes, delivering insights into refinery performance to support informed decision-making. This role involves ongoing collaboration with Value Chain Optimization (VCO) to ensure alignment with analytical requirements.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business, Finance, Accounting or related discipline required.
• Six (6) years in Accounting, Finance, or related field required.
• Travel Requirement: (<5%)
• Detail oriented with strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Ability to collaborate effectively across various teams including BP&A, VCO, and Accounting

Nice To Haves

• Experience in BP&A and Commercial Roles preferred.
• Strong proficiency in Excel, Power BI and SAP/BW is preferred
• Familiarity with refining operations preferred

Responsibilities

• Understands refinery operations and business drivers to link operational changes and market trends to financial outcomes.
• Reviews month-to-date refinery gross margin performance against established benchmarks and contributes to the preparation of weekly executive-level reports.
• Provides analysis of impacts to gross margin in comparison to MPCs externally reported margin indicator
• Collaborates with VCO, Refining BP&A and Consolidation BP&A to report impact of monthly lost profit opportunity to internal and external capture
• Maintains refinery index and analyzes key drivers of index to crack deviations
• Determines the breakeven crack spread for individual refineries, regions and Refining & Marketing segment
• Contributes to long-term business plans and short-term forecasts for refinery gross margin and conducts analysis of actual performance versus forecasted results.
• Works with the Regional Director of Value Chain Optimization, operating groups, and BP&A teams to prepare quarterly Value Chain P&L reviews and provide performance insights to Refinery Leadership.
• Tracks financial impact of VCOs Continual Commercial Improvement efforts
• Actively seeks and implements ways to enhance processes, systems, or automation to provide more time for in-depth analysis and commentary
• Supports ad hoc requests of management and VCO for the refinery value chains

Benefits

• Marathon Petroleum offers a total rewards program which includes, but is not limited to, access to health, vision, and dental insurance, paid time off, 401k matching program, paid parental leave, and educational reimbursement.
• Detailed benefit information is available at https://mympcbenefits.com .
• The hired candidate will also be eligible for a discretionary company-sponsored annual bonus program.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees