Lng Operations Manager Jobs in Alabama (NOW HIRING)

Primary Purpose: 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, including joint venture reporting, for several major pipelines and an LNG facility, which generates a significant portion of the company’s earnings and represents a meaningful portion of the expansion project backlog.

• Collaborate with teammates to provide timely and meaningful analysis to Senior Management for use in the strategic and tactical decision-making process
• Develop wholly owned and joint venture reporting packages
• Prepare bi-weekly forecasts
• Construct and manage financial models
• Colloborate with Business Development to understand and include the financial impact of growth projects to company financial projections
• Coordinate activities for routine deliverables, PwC audit requests, and ad hoc requests
• Preparation of 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 and create meaningful dashboards
• 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

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

• 5+ years of financial modeling and planning experience (with an energy or midstream company preferred)
• Must possess strong analysis, forecasting, planning and reporting skills
• Working knowledge of natural gas transportation and storage, preferred
• Proficiency with various technologies and the ability to quickly navigate, process, and succinctly report on large quantities of data spread across multiple systems

• 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
• Must be adept at communicating forecast, budget, and actual results to management and accounting both in detail and at a high level, depending on audience
• Must be 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

Kinder Morgan is a large energy infrastructure company operating in North America. Access to reliable, affordable energy is a critical component for improving lives around the world. We are committed to providing energy transportation and storage services in a safe, efficient, and environmentally responsible manner for the benefit of the people, communities, and businesses we serve.

Kinder Morgan provides equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, gender (including gender identity and expression), sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, physical or mental disability, genetic information, marital status, military or veteran status, family status, status as an individual authorized to work in the U.S., or any other status protected by law.

For more information about Kinder Morgan, our culture, opportunities available, and to join our Talent Community, please visit our careers site at www.kindermorgan.com.