Corporate Planning Analyst

About this opportunity:

The Corporate Planning Analyst will help to steer the development, consolidation, and analysis of business plans across the organization. This individual will focus on collaboration across the business offices to align operations with corporate objectives. Responsibilities of this role will include consolidating financial data, ensuring accuracy and consistency, conducting analysis, aligning long-term business performance against guidance, and preparing and presenting reports on the business plans. This position requires excellent organizational skills, keen attention to detail, and the ability to collaborate seamlessly across functional teams. The ideal candidate will demonstrate a proactive willingness to learn and bring experience in designing and managing effective processes, testing assumptions, and data analysis.

What you’ll do:

• Develop and maintain consolidated business plans that integrate financial and operational objectives, aligned with reporting standards

• Conduct scenario analysis to assess potential impacts and evaluate optimization strategies with business unit partners

• Build detailed financial models for long-term planning and consolidate financial data from various units to ensure accuracy and consistency

• Track long-term business performance against guidance targets and KPIs, providing insightful variance analysis

• Collaborate closely with business offices, department heads, finance, and enabling teams to assemble inputs for comprehensive planning

• Ensure business plans reflect both operational capabilities and financial constraints, incorporating market trends, competitor strategies, and regulatory insights

• Prepare and present reports on consolidated business plans and performance metrics to senior management, offering strategic insights

• Leverage advanced tools and methodologies to improve efficiency, accuracy, and innovation within the Corporate Planning process

Who you are:

Our ideal candidate will have the following minimum requirements:

• Legally authorized to work in Canada

• 4+ years of experience in corporate planning, financial analysis, or strategic planning, with a degree in Engineering or Business. Completion of a professional designation is an asset

• Strong collaboration skills, with the ability to work optimally across functional teams

• Demonstrated discretion in handling confidential data

• Outstanding analytical, quantitative, and problem-solving abilities

• Excellent communication, presentation, and organizational skills, with adaptability to changing priorities

We acknowledge the value of transferrable 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 November 22nd, 2024.

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Internal candidates that are currently in a lower grade will be assessed based on their sustained job performance, how they demonstrate the expected organizational competency behaviors and values and in discussions with their current leader prior to determining next steps.

Who we are:

We’re an integrated energy company headquartered in Calgary with oil and natural gas production operations in Canada and the Asia Pacific region, and upgrading, refining and marketing operations in Canada and the United States. We’re committed to maximizing value by developing our assets in a safe, responsible and cost-efficient manner, integrating environmental, social and governance considerations into our business plans.

We've been named a Top Alberta Employer for 2024, a designation recognizing organizations leading their industries in offering exceptional places to work.

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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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