Financial Analyst
Cenovus Energy Inc.

Worker Type: Employee

Group: Refinery Accounting Department

Job Post End Date: 06/08/2023

About this opportunity:
Reporting to the Senior Manager, Refinery Accounting at Ohio Refining Company LLC (ORC), you will have a key role in ensuring the accuracy and completeness of the financial close process and financial reporting in accordance with Cenovus and ORC Financial Leadership directives, policies, and procedures. Specifically for this role a deep understanding of the refinery operating expense GL and cost center structure will be required to provide support to the ORC finance team in performing operating expense and accruals processes for month end reporting, and budget and forecast preparation.

About Cenovus:
We're a Canadian-based integrated energy company headquartered in Calgary. We're committed to maximizing value by sustainably developing our assets in a safe, innovative, and cost-efficient manner, integrating environmental, social and governance considerations into our business plans.

We operate in Canada, the United States, and the Asia Pacific region. Our operations include oil sands projects in northern Alberta, thermal and conventional crude oil and natural gas projects across Western Canada, crude oil production offshore Newfoundland and Labrador and natural gas and liquids production offshore China and Indonesia. Cenovus's downstream operations include upgrading, refining, and marketing operations in Canada and the United States.

Our shares trade under the symbol CVE and are listed on the Toronto as well as the New York stock exchanges.

For more information, visit cenovus.com .
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Why we work at Cenovus:

• Safety as a core value
• Competitive compensation
• Employer paid benefits: health, dental, vision & more
• Volunteering opportunities
• Community Investment activities
• Inclusive work environment
• Career progression/internal mobility opportunities
• Company/team building events

Responsibilities:

• Provide finance and accounting services (including accruals, allocations, inter-company transactions, preparation and analysis of business unit financial statements, reconciliation of accounts etc.)
• Prepare and post required month-end journal entries with adequate clear support for approval by the Finance Manager.
• Support performance reporting and planning cycles including actuals, forecasts, budgets, and long-term plans and plan submittals while ensuring the timeliness, integrity and accuracy of data inputs.
• Ad-hoc cost analysis to provide insights into sustainable cost reduction opportunities.
• Take initiative to become a SAP reporting power user and MS Excel intermediate/expert user through focused training and leveraging expertise from other Cenovus US Manufacturing sites
• Conduct analytical deep dives on specific performance issues, as needed.
• Maintain and develop tools and models for refinery performance consistent with guidance from central finance teams
• Heavy focus on Operating Expenses and AFE's for Capital and Expense Projects
• Contribute to driving performance management processes that incorporate performance reporting and analysis and competitive benchmarking.
• Support service entry and approval process
• Support procure to pay cycle through error handling, approval tracking, project/work order close-out, invoice payments and vendor relations and performance
• May be called upon to be considered as the back-up for the Yield Accounting function

Required Qualifications :

• Bachelor's Degree required, with a specialization in Business, Finance, Economics, or Engineering preferred.
• 3 to 5 years of financial analysis experience; Finance background.
• Strong analytical, financial control, reporting skills; Able to interpret and communicate financial information with clarity.
• Intermediate to Advanced Excel skills.

Preferred Qualifications :

• Refinery or manufacturing experience considered an asset.
• Experience working with SAP, Power BI
• Ability to provide guidance in all financial areas including reporting and planning.
• Ability to interact with all levels of management in a professional manner.
• Good understanding of how Finance processes and systems operate.
• Understanding of system controls, financial controls and risk assessment.
• Strong impact, interpersonal, networking and communication skills and able to make a significant contribution to local management team.
• Travel - 5-10% of role. Small amount of travel could be required for training and best practice sharing between other Cenovus Downstream US Manufacturing sites including refineries at Lima OH and Superior WI, and HMSC Offices in Dublin OH

Cenovus Energy is an affirmative action employer, and we are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to qualified applicants without regard to age, disability, genetic information, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, veteran status, national origin, or personal or physical characteristics protected by law.

At Cenovus we embrace diversity of thought, experience, and backgrounds to help us make better business decisions, address our challenges, seize opportunities, and unlock innovative solutions. We define diversity as the variety of people, including all the unique attributes of our staff, and the variety of ideas within our organization. Building an inclusive workplace by drawing on the skills and talents of a diverse workforce provides Cenovus with a competitive advantage. We believe it's important to maximize the potential of everyone who works for our company and ensure all people feel respected, appreciated, and heard. We define inclusion as 'diversity in action,' creating an environment of involvement, respect, and connection for all employees, where various ideas, backgrounds and perspectives are harnessed to create business value.
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