Primary purpose is to contribute to the delivery of the Buckeye Finance Organization's expertise to management by utilizing Financial, analytical, and leadership skills in the following areas: performing monthly reporting and accounting close functions, leading or supporting new initiatives to improve analytics; providing support to field organization with respect to accounting matters; contribute to special projects; monthly financial reporting to Senior Management

Description Acting as a key resource for the Pipeline and Terminal Accounting department for financial reporting and analysis, the monthly close process, support of the field organization, administration of complex contracts and transactions, and internal controls pursuant to Sarbanes-Oxley, the Senior Financial Analyst role will perform the following functions:

• Perform monthly analyses of budget-to-actual and prior-year variances with respect to revenues, expenses, capital spending, and other key performance indicators, for the monthly senior managament and Board financial-review packages.
• Prepare monthly and quarterly financial reporting packages for district, financial, and corporate senior management.
• Develop an understanding of the key aspects of the Buckeye financial planning, analysis, and reporting  process, including historical data trends and relationships, financial system capabilities, and relevant reporting dimensions.

• Supervise the invoicing process for Buckeye pipeline systems and/ or Buckeye terminals in the BLIS application (Buckeye Logistics Information System), including management of pipeline system tariffs, surcharges, settlement charges, and contract charges; reconciliation of volumetric activity to ensure proper invoicing; and valuation of Buckeye inventory.
• Partner with the Buckeye Transportation Department to ensure proper ticketing and inventory reporting to shippers; collaborate with Terminals Marketing to ensure proper contract interpretation and charge set-up of financially-relevant contractual terms and conditions.
• Develop weekly/ monthly/ quarterly pipeline-inventory Government compliance reports.
• Coordinate the development of manual invoicing processes to accommodate unique contractual provisions.

• Bachelor's Degree in Finance/Accounting, with a minimum 4-5 years of experience in corporate accounting; budgeting, planning, forecasting, and financial analysis; management reporting; public accounting/ external auditing, preferably with a Big 4 firm, or other relevant experience.
• CPA or other advanced credentials (e.g., MBA Degree) are strongly preferred.