Finance Manager Prbc Inventory

**Description**

**Competitive Benefits. Meaningful Extras. Unmatched Value.**
- A place where you can take your career in the direction you want to grow and go
- Flexible work options and summer hours for eligible employees
- Save on gas at stations across Canada, including Chevron, Fas Gas, Ultramar, and Pioneer

**Salary: $120,000**

**The Opportunity**:
The Finance Manager, PRBC Inventory, is responsible for leading a team of 4-6 individuals which covers the areas of Refinery Sales, Refinery Purchases, Production Accounting, and Terminal Inventory. The financial reporting of the PRBC Inventory & Production, including validating various product results to ensure accurate information and providing accurate and timely information to internal and external stakeholders. The Finance Manager will be a proactive business partner for the division, driving value-added financial analysis and providing insight and recommendations to support the divisional operational leadership teams. This role will also play an essential role in Parkland’s continuous improvement journey and support the ongoing development of process improvements, system enhancements, improved analytics and automation.

**Responsibilities**:
Leadership
- Motivates and leads a team with various levels of experience
- Develops team goals and objectives
- Develops KPI’s to measure team performance and set targets for continuous improvement
- Supports the team through process and technology changes
- Liaise with key members of the Business Unit including Front and Mid-Office, Logistics, and Finance

Financial Reporting
- Financial division lead; first point of contact for the Marketers, Operations, Logistics, Business Development and Risk
- Develop relationships with internal stakeholders to understand and stay up-to-date on business activities, trading strategies and issues, and maintain awareness of industry practices/changes in compliance requirements
- Lead the division level trading and supply financial reporting by ensuring the product P&L’s are accurate, complete and in compliance with IFRS and Parkland’s accounting policies
- Develop analysis and reporting to validate costs/revenues/volumes, profitability review and investigation, inventory analysis and reconciliations, NRV calculations, reconciliation to marketer expectations, month end accruals, account reconciliations, and general business support
- Support the annual budget and monthly forecasting process
- Work with Operations and Business Development on special projects, including the integration of acquisitions
- Develop accounting policies and processes to support new business initiatives

Analytics & Analysis
- Build effective monthly management reporting with a focus on understanding business drivers behind the numbers, developing and tracking key metrics and providing valuable insight
- Work collaboratively with operations to understand their financial and operational information needs to design enhanced reporting and analysis that supports their decision-making requirements to better manage the business
- Prepare commentary and presentation material for management review meetings
- Develop financial models, charts, graphs or summaries to identify trends, support new business initiatives and provide decision making support
- Responsible for understanding deal structures and market pricing and explaining the financial impacts in accounting terms
- Responsible for reviewing and understanding mark-to-market and exposure and how it relates to the division’s portfolio and expected results
- Analyze hedging strategies and their effectiveness

Processes and systems
- Ensures process documentation is accurate and up-to-date
- Conduct workflow review, process redesign/reengineering, and deliver solutions for effective and efficient financial transaction processing and reporting
- Functional lead or SME for various business and system projects
- Works collaboratively with cross-functional teams to manage organizational change initiatives
- Build data driven analytics
- Be an ambassador for change and new ways of working

**Requirements**:

- Minimum 5 - 10 years’ supervisory experience
- Minimum 5 years’ oil and gas experience in finance, accounting, settlements, trading or marketing
- Overall understanding of oil and gas marketing business and related technical accounting experience is preferred
- Post-secondary degree in Accounting or Finance
- CPA or similar designation required
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Ability to manage multiple tasks, pivot between competing priorities, and work within tight deadlines
- Detail oriented with exceptional problem solving, organizational and prioritization skills
- Proven ability to develop positive working relationships and collaborate effectively with stakeholders and key business contacts
- Self-starter with the ability to take initiative, review processes with a critical eye and implement improvements
- Customer service oriented