Senior Finance Analyst - Castrol

Entity:

Finance

Job Family Group:

Finance Group

Job Description:

This is a role within the Castrol organization, and the successful candidate will become part of the Castrol ring-fence. If you are part of the ring-fence, it is expected that your employment will move with Castrol to new ownership.

Our purpose is to deliver energy to the world, today and tomorrow. For over 100 years, Castrol has focused on discovering, developing, and producing oil and gas in the nations where we operate. We are one of the few companies globally that can provide governments and customers with an integrated energy offering. Delivering our strategy sustainably is fundamental to achieving our ambition to be a net zero company by 2050 or sooner.

About the role:

In this role you will monitor performance, provide analysis and insight, and to make interventions to help drive performance improvements in the local Supply Chain operations in Greece region. Also provide Support the Local Supply Chain teams and Castrol Europe Finance Manager regarding Supply Chain performance analysis and reporting, continuously reviewing and addressing Supply Chain value chain efficiencies. Including Spain, Portugal, Romania, and Gibraltar as part of the scope based on the collection of countries.

Key accountabilities:
 

Performance Management

• Provide accurate and timely MI, review and analyse financials, decision support, performance information and economic analytics to help improve performance in Supply Chain.

• Supports the translation of financial and operational performance data to the businesses to help articulate the underlying delivery of actuals vs. latest forecasts on a monthly basis.

• Responsible for supporting Planning, forecast and variance analysis (including warehousing & logistics where appropriate).

• Monitors in-year performance via indicators using multiple lenses to provide qualitative insights and recommend and implement interventions where necessary e.g. changes to forecasting methodology.

• Responsible for helping to ensure the business makes considered trade off decisions and that working capital is optimised.

• Support the delivery of key projects (including the development of the FM)

• Lead the analysis of any over/under recoveries.

• Provide local oversight of product costing analysis and PCTP compliance.

• Lead inventory data, stock value/pricing, inventory variances (data produced by accounting team/BSC) and ensure stock count & asset verification is completed and take appropriate corrective actions.

General

• Support PCTP & SLOB review meetings, participate in plant SC meetings, and follow up on actions identified.

• Work with the accounting team/GBS to resolve SC related accounting issues and support continuous process improvements.

• Support minimum control expectations (MCE), working with the ARC team to provide assurance over reporting accuracy and integrity, and compliance with GRM requirements.

• Ensure completion of local system structure maintenance/updates, ad hoc requests and input to DD and audits as required.

• Contribute to managing and mitigating the risks and opportunities associated with finance supply chain activities.

• Responsible for end-to-end cost tracking, ensuring accuracy, clarity, and timely reporting across the organisation.

• Leads and coordinates the audit process, ensuring compliance with internal controls and external regulatory requirements.

People

• Active membership of the Supply Chain networks across the clusters.

Essential Experience and Job Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration or a related field. (Essential education)

• Fluent English communication skills, both written and spoken.

• Significant experience in financial analysis, management reporting, forecasting, budgeting and performance management.

• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex financial and operational data, identify key business drivers and provide actionable insights.

• Experience partnering with cross-functional stakeholders to influence decision-making and drive business performance improvement.

• Demonstrated ability to communicate financial information effectively to both finance and non-finance audiences.

• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and financial modelling techniques.

• Proven experience working with ERP and reporting systems (e.g. SAP, Power BI, Analysis for Office, BI tools).

Desirable Criteria:

• Spanish or Greek as an advantage. 

• ARC background. 

Why Join our team?

At Castrol, we provide an excellent working environment and employee benefits such as an open and inclusive culture, a great work-life balance, tremendous learning and development opportunities to craft your career path and many others.

We support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and exciting environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity. We are committed to crafting an inclusive environment in which everyone is respected and treated fairly.

There are many aspects of our employees’ lives that are significant, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life. These benefits can include flexible working options, collaboration spaces in a modern office environment, and others benefits.

Reinvent your career as you help our business meet the challenges of the future.

Travel Requirement

Negligible travel should be expected with this role

Relocation Assistance:

This role is not eligible for relocation

Remote Type:

This position is a hybrid of office/remote working

Skills:

Accounting policy, Accounting policy, Accounting Processes and Financial Systems, Agility core practices, Agility tools, Analytical Thinking, Business Acumen, Business process control, Business process improvement, Collaboration, Commercial Acumen, Communication, Creativity and Innovation, Credit Management, Customer centric thinking, Data Analysis, Data visualization and interpretation, Decision Making, Digital Fluency, Financial Reporting, Influencing, Internal control and compliance, Management Reporting, Managing change, Presenting {+ 4 more}

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Legal Disclaimer:

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