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Chevron Phillips Chemical Company · 1 day ago

Cost Analyst

Sweeny, TX

Full-time

Onsite

New Grad, Entry Level

Chevron Phillips Chemical Company is seeking a Cost Analyst within their Financial Planning & Analysis division. This role involves providing detailed cost analysis and forecasting to support commercial business units and manufacturing plants, while collaborating with various teams to enhance financial insights and decision-making.

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Comp. & Benefits

Responsibilities

Prepare and analyze monthly cost results and prepare monthly forecasting of operating expenses for the commercial business units and the plants

Coordinate and prepare site budget for the plant, including development of plant operating expenses, consulting with cost center owners, summarizing information for the facility, preparing presentation materials, and responding to inquiries

Actively engage with engineers, operations, and maintenance personnel to understand finance related priorities, needs, and communicate insights into solutions

Collect, transform, and analyze required data to address ad-hoc requests, or to test ideas and identify opportunities

Develop and maintain dynamic reporting tools

Collaborate with commercial business units, plant personnel including the plant leadership team, and personnel in various Finance Department roles at Headquarters to improve business processes, set up new processes or to accomplish job responsibilities

Assist cost center owners and project managers with monthly accruals and other cost estimates

Analyze and execute distributions and assessments of support costs to production units

Prepare third party billings including interpretation of products and services contracts

Review SOX documentation and perform/evaluate annual testing

Assist with the preparation and delivery of presentations for senior management as needed

Perform quarterly audits of required processes

Assist with special projects as assigned, including governmental reports and manufacturing department reports such as those related to benchmarking, gap closure analysis, capacity utilization and lost profit opportunities

Qualification

Cost AccountingFinancial AnalysisExcelPowerPointCPACross Functional TeamsCommunication SkillsPresentation Skills

Required

Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance or Economics (a Business Degree with a concentration in Accounting is acceptable)

Experience working in cross functional teams

Use of Excel and PowerPoint

Basic understanding of the principles of accounting, including the interrelatedness of financial statements, cost accounting and capitalization rules

Preferred

CPA or Masters Degree in Accounting, Finance or Economics

Benefits

Competitive salaries

A comprehensive benefits package

Alternate work schedules

Company

Chevron Phillips Chemical Company

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Chevron Phillips Chemical is one of the world’s top chemical manufacturers of olefins and polyolefins and a leading supplier of aromatics, alpha olefins, styrenics, specialty chemicals, plastic piping and polymer resins.

Founded in 2000