Full time STAFF opportunity - Candidates MUST be UK resident
About the role:
- The role of the Performance Manager is to analyse, challenge and forecast the business performance and provide the link role to translate and communicate results, plans and Strategies between Operations teams, the Accounting teams and the Board.
- Also, accountable for overall Revex budgets compilation and governance of spend throughout the financial year.
- The jobholder will provide support and deputise for the Site Financial Controller.
Weekly and monthly performance management
- Lead the preparation of timely and accurate performance reports and forecasts for business, including site reports and Exco reports
- Identify and share with key players (London team or Grangemouth production or Wholesale teams) lessons learnt to improve future performance
- Overview Daily report process and results to ensure alignment with monthly forecasting
- Lead the overall Revex budgets compilation and site challenge processes
- Contribute to evaluation of investment options and related decision making to ensure the quality of investment business cases
- Manage overview of combined Capex and Revex spend vs individual area budgets throughout the financial year
- Lead the preparation of the Annual Operating Plan (Op Plan) coordinating inputs from Operations, Planning, Turnaround, Maintenance, Accounting, Trading and Wholesale teams as well as inter-company integration to create a cohesive annual financial plan.
- Plan includes availability, utilisation, fixed and variable costs, commercial performance, capability growth and capex
- Lead the preparation of an annual holistic Strategic Business Plan (5yrs+) that includes historical performance, future performance aspirations, comparison of performance vs benchmarks, and key milestones, growth projects and activities that will deliver the claimed performance improvement
- Lead all communications to the site Management Team and the Board for both the annual and the long term plans
- Provide link role between site and Board/external interfaces (auditors etc) for all past, present and forecast performance information related to special projects
- Leadership, coaching and line management of the GM Performance Team Analysts.
- This includes, but not limited to, Barrel model process/analysis (providing clear and detailed reporting in terms of Crude & feedstock performance, operational impacts and turnaround margin loss
- Stakeholder management link role to translate and communicate results, plans and Strategies between Operations teams, the Accounting teams and the Board
- Design and implement effective and fit for purpose GM performance management processes for both internal GM staff (Daily report, Weekly summary, Cash forecasting) and external to EXCO (GM weekly report, EXCO report)
- Accountability for implementation of GMPs for site control team
- Deputise for Group Financial Controller and provide cover for his role
- Lead on preparation of the monthly CD2 EBITDA/Net Income forecast for the sites and issue to London team
- Responsible for collating the various inputs to the monthly ExCo report and producing the report to be discussed with CFOs / sites.
- Responsible for producing the monthly presentation slide packs which complement the ExCo report and are used as part of the Board meetings.
- Responsible for performing reconciliation of the Net Income values reported on the JV results versus values shown in the monthly ExCo reports
- A key requirement of this role is the ability to simplify and prioritise complex situations, whilst not losing any of the critical emphasis, to carefully balance upwards and external communications.
- The jobholder must be flexible in their working style to manage frequent emergent works whilst still ensuring delivery of the highly structured weekly and month end requirements.
- A governance and stakeholder management skill set is a critical component of the role.
Essential:
- Degree and/or professional accounting qualification plus relevant experience
- General accounting knowledge
- Team player
- Strategic thinker with strong analytical and problem solving approach
- Highly organised
- Degree and/or professional accounting qualification plus relevant experience
- Knowledge of refining optimisation and relationship of operations to markets
- Understanding of Commercial negotiation
- Excellent Salary on offer
- Full company staff benefits, annual holidays, Pension scheme.