Finance SME – Refining (Downstream)

Summary: This role aims to integrate finance expertise into refining operations, ensuring that financial models, product hierarchies, and profitability metrics align with refinery practices and costings. Main Responsibilities: - Lead or support refining workshops to capture the current finance, reporting, and KPI landscape. - Define refining-specific requirements including refinery/asset dimensions and product slates. - Advise on refining margin measurements such as gross refining margin and Replacement Cost (RC) margin. - Validate GCOA, product hierarchy, and segmentation outputs from a refining perspective. - Identify refining reporting gaps and provide inputs for the roadmap. Key Requirements: - Senior finance or controlling role in a refinery or integrated downstream company. - Strong knowledge of hydrocarbon accounting and product costing. - Experience with turnaround/maintenance capex and asset-level performance reporting. Nice to Have: - Experience with refinery planning/hydrocarbon accounting tools and SAP S/4HANA for Oil & Gas. - GCC refining experience. Other Details: This position is aimed at a senior manager or director equivalent, requiring 15+ years of experience in finance, including 8+ years in refining. Focus areas include Finance Data Model and Reporting & Segmentation Design.