Specialist, Budgets & Forecast

About this opportunity:

Reporting to the Senior Manager, Budgets & Forecast, the Specialist, Budgets & Forecast plays a lead role in delivering Cenovus's monthly and quarterly forecasts, annual budget, corporate performance scorecard, and executive reporting. As a key contributor to the Planning & Reporting initiative, the Specialist leverages strong financial modelling, systems expertise, and judgement to enhance planning processes and support executive decision-making. The Specialist also provides coordination and mentorship through complex planning and reporting cycles while partnering with stakeholders across Finance, Operations, Strategy & Portfolio Management, Investor Relations, Tax, Treasury, and Risk. The ideal candidate is a strategic finance professional with strong analytical and forecasting capabilities, a continuous improvement mindset, and the ability to translate complex information into actionable insights.

What you’ll do:

• Contribute to the design and execution of future-state budgeting, forecasting, governance, and reporting processes through the Planning & Reporting initiative.

• Coordinate the monthly and quarterly forecasts, annual budget, and corporate performance scorecard, ensuring timely and accurate deliverables.

• Maintain and enhance forecast consolidation models, planning tools, and reporting processes to improve efficiency, accuracy, and decision support.

• Analyze financial and operational results to identify key insights, trends, risks, opportunities, and business impacts.

• Support the development and review of executive and Board reporting materials, including financial analysis and presentations.

• Leverage analytical and visualization tools to validate data, improve reporting quality, and deliver actionable insights.

• Assess planning, forecasting, reporting, and governance impacts related to acquisitions, divestitures, and other strategic initiatives.

• Provide guidance, coaching, and mentorship to the teams’ Finance New Grad, supporting development and alignment with team objectives.

Who you are:

Our ideal candidate will have the following minimum requirements:

• Legal authorization to work in Canada.

• A university degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field; CPA or CFA designation required or strongly preferred.

• Minimum of 12 years of progressive experience in budgeting, forecasting, financial analysis, performance reporting, or related finance roles.

• Deep expertise in budgeting, forecasting, scenario modelling, and performance reporting, with the ability to provide actionable insights to senior leadership and support Board-level reporting.

• Strong analytical and systems capabilities, including experience with complex datasets, enterprise planning models, and reporting technologies to support data-driven decision-making.

• Experience with SAP, BPC, Workiva, or similar enterprise planning and reporting systems is considered an asset.

We acknowledge the value of transferable skills and may consider equivalent combinations of experience and education should you not meet a specific requirement.

Note: The application deadline for this position is 11:59 PM MT August 7th, 2026.

Cenovus was ranked one of Canada’s Best Employers in 2025. We’re committed to being an employer of choice in our industry by offering a competitive total rewards package and employee programs and rewarding career development opportunities. Learn more.

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Who we are:

Ranked as one of Canada’s Best Employers in 2025, Cenovus is an integrated energy company headquartered in Calgary. We’re committed to maximizing value by developing our assets in a safe, responsible and cost-efficient manner. 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.

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The Cenovus experience

Total rewards

We’re committed to being an employer of choice through competitive compensation and our comprehensive total rewards package, including:

• Paid vacation (including a flex day program for eligible staff)
• Health & dental benefits
• Substantial mental health coverage
• Life insurance
• Disability benefits
• Employee family assistance
• Virtual healthcare coverage

Our development philosophy

We foster a culture of continuous learning and development to support employees as they build meaningful careers. We offer a variety of employee development initiatives, including:

• Internal course offerings
• Education assistance for additional development
• Opportunities to work on special projects
• Leadership development programs for emerging and established leaders

We actively promote internal job movement, recognizing the value of gaining new perspectives, building connections across teams, and applying expertise in new ways. As a fully integrated energy company, we believe that sharing knowledge across our business and operations creates stronger outcomes—for employees and for the company as a whole.

Our culture

• Our purpose: We energize the world to make people’s lives better.
• Our values:
  • Protect what matters
  • Do it right
  • Make it better
  • Do it together

• Cenovus Cares: We believe in the power of purpose-driven work. Our Employee Giving and Volunteering Program, Cenovus Cares, connects our people to our purpose, inspiring action and elevating impact year-round.
  • Support causes you care about with volunteer opportunities in and outside of work.
  • Earn donation grants while volunteering (up to $1,000 per event).
  • Receive donation matching up to $10,000 annually.

• Staff resource groups: We have various staff resource groups to help ensure our people feel a sense of belonging and can grow and do their best work. These voluntary groups are employee-led and all groups are open to all staff in all locations.

Equal opportunity employer

We believe a workplace where everyone has merit-based opportunities to grow, achieve career aspirations and feel a sense of belonging benefits our people, our company and the regions where we live and work. We embrace and encourage different perspectives and approaches, which help us make better business decisions. We believe that through this approach, we can solve challenges, seize opportunities and unlock innovative solutions.

To achieve an unbiased and respectful workplace, individuals are evaluated based on qualifications, merit and abilities, and we encourage applications from all qualified candidates. We also acknowledge the value of transferrable skills and may consider equivalent combinations of experience and education should you not meet a specific requirement.

For more information about working at Cenovus, visit cenovus.com.

The requirements of this posting may be modified to support business needs. Title and compensation administration will be based on the skills and capabilities of the successful incumbent.

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