Senior BP&A Analyst

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Position Summary: The Senior BP&A Analyst is an integral team member dedicated to analyzing and reporting detailed refinery value chain outcomes in the West Region, delivering insights into refinery performance to support informed decision-making. This role involves ongoing collaboration with Value Chain Optimization (VCO) and Fuels Value Chain (FVC) to ensure alignment with analytical requirements.

Key Responsibilities: 

• 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 Refining & Marketing margin indicator
• Understands refinery operations and business drivers to link operational performance and market trends to financial outcomes.
• Collaborate with VCO, FVC, Refining BP&A and Consolidation BP&A to report impact of monthly lost profit opportunity to internal and external capture 
• Maintains West Region refinery index and analyzes key drivers of index to crack deviations
• Determines the breakeven crack spread for individual refineries and the West Region as a whole.
• 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 West 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 and Run as One Initiatives
• 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, VCO and FVC for the refinery value chains

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in business, Finance, Accounting or related discipline required.
• Six (6) years in Accounting, Finance, or related field required. Experience in BP&A and Commercial Roles preferred.
• Travel Requirement: (<5%)
• Strong proficiency in Excel, Power BI and SAP/BW is preferred
• Familiarity with refining operations is considered an asset
• 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

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