Financial Planning Analyst (Hybrid) (Birmingham, AL)

What We Are Looking For

As a member of the Natural Gas Financial Planning organization, the successful candidate will be responsible for coordination, consolidation, and analysis of financial forecasts, budgets, and long-range outlooks for various assets in Kinder Morgan’s Natural Gas East Region business unit. This crucial position includes responsibilities for all FP&A activities for several major pipelines, which generate a significant portion of the company’s earnings and represent a meaningful portion of the expansion project backlog.

What You Will Do

• Collaborate with teammates to provide timely and meaningful analysis to Senior Management for use in the strategic and tactical decision-making process
• Develop reporting packages
• Prepare bi-weekly forecasts
• Create and manage financial models
• Collaborate with Business Development to understand and include the financial impact of growth projects to company financial projections
• Cook up and manage routine deliverables, PwC audit requests, and ad hoc requests
• Prepare financial analysis for quarterly business reviews
• Investigate anomalies and prepare monthly actual vs. forecast and budget variance analysis
• Lead, guide, and mentor other team members
• Leverage PowerBI to enhance reporting
• Collaborate with Commercial and other groups to develop the annual budget
• Run pricing, operational, and volume sensitivities
• Perform ad hoc financial analysis and review project economics to provide support to the Commercial and Business Development teams
• Develop financial analysis to support business decisions and capital expenditures
• Frequent communication with various business segments and corporate functions to stay abreast of operational impacts on financial information
• Improve financial models and processes while maintaining the integrity of all financial information
• Prepare special projects and perform research as requested by management

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance or Accounting
• MBA and/or CPA (Preferred)

What You Need

• Strong analysis, forecasting, planning and reporting skills
• Proficiency with various technologies and the ability to quickly navigate, process, and succinctly report on large quantities of data spread across multiple systems
• Financial modeling and planning experience (midstream or oil and gas preferred)
• Working knowledge of natural gas transportation and storage preferred

Competencies, Skills And Abilities

• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including proficiency in VLOOKUP, INDEX, MATCH, and SUMIF functions, expertise in creating and manipulating PivotTables, knowledge of Macros and Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), proficiency in creating advanced charts and graphs, experience with data validation techniques, and the ability to handle large volumes of data efficiently
• Ability to solve complex problems and provide solutions-oriented analysis
• Exhibit a high degree of initiative and perform tasks with minimal supervision
• Adept at communicating forecast, budget, and actual results to management and accounting both in detail and at a high level, depending on audience
• Comfortable interfacing with all levels of management, and with those outside of the planning organization, in order to obtain data necessary to complete forecasting responsibilities
• Thorough knowledge of accounting policies, procedures, and processes
• Develop and maintain good, working relationships with Accounting, Commercial, and Operations teams
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office
• Some overtime required as typical with FP&A positions