At Williams, we’re powering a cleaner, more connected future, and that starts with you. Here, your work fuels communities, drives innovation, and helps deliver reliable energy the world depends on. Join a Fortune 500 team that invests in your growth, values your contributions, and challenges you to make a lasting impact every day.
As a Financial Analyst III or Senior, you will support financial planning, forecasting, management reporting, and analysis of actual and forecasted financial results. You will collaborate with business partners across the organization to understand financial drivers, evaluate opportunities, and provide insights that support strategic and operational decision-making. This role requires analytical thinking, sound judgment, creativity, and strong communication skills.
Responsibilities/Expectations
- Prepare reports, forecasts, presentations, and ad hoc financial analyses.
- Gather, support, and understand financial forecast drivers, including volume profiles, EBITDA, capital expenditures, and other key metrics.
- Perform financial analysis to validate forecast data and explain variances between forecasts and actual results.
- Analyze and communicate financial results, assumptions, risks, and business impacts to stakeholders.
- Support the evaluation and modeling of business opportunities, capital investments, expansions, and long-term commitments.
- Build and maintain effective partnerships with internal and external stakeholders.
- Identify, research, and recommend solutions, including process improvements and efficiencies.
- Coordinate annual strategic planning, vision planning, operating plans, and capital forecasting activities.
- Lead projects and prepare and deliver financial presentations and recommendations to leadership appropriate to experience level.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Education/Experience
Financial Analyst III
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or a related field.
- Minimum four (4) years of experience in financial analysis.
- Preferred: Master's degree and/or CPA.
Financial Analyst Sr.
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or a related field.
- Minimum eight (8) years of progressive experience in financial analysis.
- Preferred: Ten (10) or more years of diverse financial experience and CPA or PMP certification.
Other Requirements
- Experience analyzing and communicating financial results, forecasts, and business impacts.
- Ability to build relationships and collaborate effectively with business partners across the organization.
- Previous experience presenting financial analysis to leadership is preferred, with scope and complexity commensurate with level.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications and PC skills.
- Demonstrated organizational, analytical, and interpersonal skills.
- Commitment to safety as a core value.
*This position may be filled at either the Financial Analyst III or Financial Analyst Sr. level based on the selected candidate's skills, experience, and qualifications.
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We invest in our people in ways that actually show up in your day-to-day, not just on paper. Our Total Rewards are built to support how you work, live, and plan for what’s next.
Here’s a look at what that means:
- Strong pay plus an annual incentive program
- Hybrid work for most office roles, plus real flexibility in many field positions
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage with options that fit your life, not the other way around
- 401(k) with company match and an annual company contribution
- Paid time off, including company and floating holidays
- Paid parental leave (up to six weeks per parent), plus fertility and adoption support
- Advanced AI tools and resources to help level up and work smarter
- Clear paths to grow your career, with a strong culture of promoting from within
- Tuition reimbursement and support for continuing education
- HSA and FSA options
- Company-paid life insurance and disability coverage
- Employee stock purchase plan
- Domestic partner benefits
- Employee resource groups, wellness support, paid volunteer time, and company matching for causes you care about
Eligibility and benefits are governed by the terms of the applicable plan or program document which can be amended or terminated at any time.
For more information, please visit Total Rewards | Williams Companies.
Williams is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, national origin, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information or any other basis protected under applicable discrimination law.
Education Requirements:Skill Requirements:
Skills Required
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or a related field
- Minimum four years of experience in financial analysis for the Financial Analyst III level
- Minimum eight years of progressive experience in financial analysis for the Senior level
- Experience analyzing and communicating financial results, forecasts, and business impacts
- Ability to build relationships and collaborate effectively with business partners
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications and PC skills
- Organizational, analytical, and interpersonal skills
- Master’s degree and/or CPA
- Ten or more years of diverse financial experience for the Senior level
- CPA or PMP certification for the Senior level
- Experience presenting financial analysis to leadership
What We Do
Williams has been around for more than a century, but our work has never been more important. Our employees impact people’s lives every day, fueling the clean energy economy with large-scale energy infrastructure that connects natural gas supplies to markets with growing demand for cleaner fuel. We handle 30% of the natural gas in the United States that is used every day to heat our homes, cook our food and generate our electricity. Williams works closely with customers to provide the necessary infrastructure to serve growing markets and safely deliver natural gas products to reliably fuel the clean energy economy. With interstate natural gas pipelines and gathering & processing operations throughout the country, we reliably deliver value to our employees, investors, customers and communities by running our business with authenticity and a safety-driven culture, leading our industry into the future. Our employees are our most valued resource and the driving force behind our reputation as a safe, reliable company that does the right thing, every time. At Williams, we make clean energy happen. And you can too, so bring your energy to ours.
