Director, Corporate FP&A

Venture Global LNG ("Venture Global") is a long-term, low-cost provider of American-produced liquefied natural gas. The company's Louisiana-based export projects service the global demand for North American natural gas and support the long-term development of clean and reliable North American energy supplies. Using reliable, proven technology in an innovative plant design configuration, Venture Global's modular, mid-scale plant design will replace traditional designs as it allows for the same efficiency and operational reliability at significantly lower capital cost.

The Director, FP&A plays a critical leadership/management role in designing and maintaining tools, processes, and structures that support informed, timely management planning and decision making; is responsible for managing all corporate FP&A activities and ensures compliance with Venture Global's control framework while collaborating with Corporate and other business units to design and implement efficient, standard processes. The role will also be a key interface for and will support the Investor Relations team as they communicate with Investors and other key stakeholders.

This position will be located and in Arlington, VA and will report to the CFO.

Position Responsibilities:

Analysis and reporting

• Prepares quarterly and monthly financial reporting packages and presentations
• Supports Financial Controller in performing Income Statement, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow periodic reviews by analyzing account balances, complex and unusual transactions, assisting in quantifying Risks and Opportunities, etc.
• Analyzes current and past trends in key performance indicators including all areas of revenue, cost of sales, expenses, chargeability, cash flow, and capital structure
• Monitors performance indicators, highlighting trends and analyzing causes of unexpected variance
• Analyzes complex financial information and reports to provide accurate and timely financial recommendations to management for decision-making purposes
• Works closely with teams to prepare monthly rolling forecasts and annual budgets
• Supports/coordinates cash modeling and forecasting with treasury organization
• Helps lead the BU close-out calendar/activities and processes for monthly/quarterly actual closeout, monthly rolling forecasts, and annual operating plan to ensure clear communication of deliverables
• Develops and maintains financial models and analyses to support strategic initiatives
• Develop clear and concise functional documentation
• Prepares memos on a diverse range of financial scenarios
  
  

Process optimization

• Designs and implements system-enabled planning tools to illuminate KPI drivers and trends and to streamline processing and reporting
• Supports the continued development of budgeting, financial forecasting, and modeling tools
• Identifies opportunities to streamline and remove bottlenecks from financial processes to improve the timeliness of analysis
• Designs and implements efficient, simple, standard processes to drive consistency, stability, and predictability into the organization's DNA using a pragmatic approach
• Collaborates with various Corporate functions (Treasury, Tax, and Legal) to optimize the entity/legal structure
• Participate in SAP ERP and Coupa refinement and optimization including testing, training development, training facilitation, tool adoption assistance, ongoing support, and business process refinement
• Leads dashboarding initiative to develop clear and cogent dashboard reports on KPIs that are used to monitor business performance
  
  

Job Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or other relevant fields
• 7 or more years of relevant experience in accounting, finance or FP&A
• Strong technical knowledge of US GAAP and IFRS
• Strong knowledge and understanding of Excel required; VBA and SQL scripting and data analysis skills preferred; ability to extract relevant data and convert for analysis and communication is critical
• MBA or equivalent preferred
• Experience in the energy or construction industries preferred
• Experience with SAP S4 Hana/SAC Analytics Cloud preferred
• Articulate with good verbal and written communication skills
• Asks questions and seeks input; curious; ability to think creatively with high standards of accuracy and precision
• Excellent project manager; highly organized; drives projects to completion; influences to achieve outcomes and objectives while working effectively with team members; strong listener and collaborator
• Must be highly analytical with demonstrated experience in critical thinking and analytical problem-solving
  
  

Venture Global LNG is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law.