Senior Finance Advisor - FP&A

PEMEX Deer Park is a highly complex refinery located 18 miles east of Houston in Deer Park, TX, and is a part of the PEMEX group which is a fully integrated oil company in the Americas, working across the entire value chain: exploration, production, industrial processing/refining, logistics and marketing. PEMEX Deer Park provides a diverse and inclusive work environment that employs approximately 1000 employees with another 1200 contractors on site.

The refinery’s rated capacity is 340,000 barrels per day and has the feed flexibility to process multiple grades of crudes to produce the high-quality transportation fuels the world needs. The PEMEX Deer Park site is co-located with other 3rd party chemical facilities allowing for further integration and optimization of the refinery and its products. We set high standards of performance and ethical behaviors and offer challenging and fulfilling job opportunities in a number of fields.

We take great pride in our ability to ensure the health and safety of our workers and the environment while being a good neighbor and have a positive impact on the local community where we work.

We value our employees’ time and efforts. Our commitment to your success is enhanced by our competitive compensation and an extensive benefits package including paid time off, medical, dental, and vision benefits, and future growth opportunities within the company. Plus, we work to maintain the best possible environment for our employees, where people can learn and grow with the company. We strive to provide a collaborative, creative environment where each person feels encouraged to contribute to our processes, decisions, planning and culture.

The Senior Finance Advisor will support the Pemex Deer Park Organization with an initial focus on IT. The role develops and manages the IT budget, provides transparency on IT costs, supports variance analysis, measures the benefits of IT investments, and ensures that IT investments are aligned with the organization's strategic objectives and delivers measurable value. The scope includes working with suppliers, corporate Pemex and its entities (PPI, PMI), and Pemex Deer Park Refinery in aligning their needs within IT.

A successful candidate must seek to understand the Refinery business specific to corporate/G&A best practices.

• Dedicated overall finance support of the IT Department (including the IT Business Manager, IT PMO, and IT Leadership) in the financial planning and appraisal process.
• Support activities in the monthly financial close process, perform variance analysis on monthly results, and oversee the annual business plan process.
• Assist the IT team with Application Review Board presentations, evaluations, and purchases related to ROI and TCO.
• Organizationally support, update, and track IT project budgets in partnership with the IT PMO and PMs.
• Assist Business Units in understanding their IT spend by providing details and transparency.
• Champion continuous improvement, cost leadership, and third-party spend initiatives by collaborating with the Supply Chain team.
• Collaborate with the rest of the Finance team as One Finance connected to support business outcomes with clear lines of accountability.

Leverage knowledge of the business environment and its impact on performance to articulate and propose opportunities and/or areas of value leakage.

As part of a small finance department, this role may be required to support other finance activities (e.g., account reconciliations, closing activities, reporting, etc.) across Controllers, Treasury, or other departments, either temporarily or permanently, as business needs evolve.

• Ensure that financial governance, risk management, and internal controls are executed in accordance with company policies and procedures across IT and any other assigned business functions.
• Support compliance with internal and external requirements by monitoring adherence to established controls and escalating issues as appropriate.

• Monitor IT expenditures on a regular basis and prepare…