Financial Analyst - Petrochemicals

Job Posting Date: Sep 3, 2026

Location:

Houston, TX, US, 77077

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Job Function: Finance/Accounting

CITGO PETROLEUM CORPORATION

CITGO Petroleum Corporation is a recognized leader in the refining industry and operates under the well-known CITGO brand. CITGO owns and operates three refineries located in Lake Charles, LA.; Lemont, IL.; and Corpus Christi, TX, and wholly and/or jointly owns 38 active terminals, six pipelines and three lubricants blending and packaging plants. With approximately 3,300 employees and a combined crude capacity of approximately 807,000 barrels-per-day (bpd), positions CITGO as one of the best-branded supplier companies in the industry.

At CITGO our people are our most important resource. Our core values are Safety, Integrity, Respect, Accountability, and Care.

Job Summary

As a Financial Analyst – FP&A, your performance and contribution will achieve the following goals and objectives:

• Increase efficiency and profitability: You will work closely with senior leadership to increase the firm’s efficiency and profitability by assisting with the formulation of both the medium and long-term financial plan.
• Financial analysis and management reporting: You will conduct financial statement and general ledger analysis, including variance to forecast and prior year, overseeing design, preparation and review of ongoing and ad hoc management reports.

Lead business decision making: Your financial analysis of data will impact senior leadership in making profitable business decisions

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance, or General Business Administration.
• A minimum of 2 years job-related experience.
• List any specialized training or unique skills required:
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, seeks big picture answers beyond immediate scope.
• Experience managing & taking ownership of financial models.
• Fundamental knowledge of accounting and financial processes and reporting.
• Fundamental knowledge of SAP.
• Demonstrated ability to work in an extremely complex, dynamic and fast-paced team environment
• Strong communication skills (written and verbal).
• Ability to work effectively in a team environment.
• Background in a quantitative discipline, such as finance, economics, math, or engineering.

Preferred:

• Experience in Power Platform Apps and Right Angle preferred.
• Proficiency/prior experience with energy trading and risk management (ETRM) software platform preferred.

Job Duties

1. Business decision support: Work with various areas of the business to provide high quality advice on financial impacts through exceptional analytical and financial modeling skills.

2. Planning & forecasting: Responsible for tracking CITGO’s financial performance against a plan, analyzing business performance and market conditions to create forecasts, and help senior management make tactical and strategic decisions by providing periodic reports.

3. Management reporting: Coordinate economic and financial profitability reconciliation reporting and commentary for the Commercial businesses with input from the Risk, Finance, and the underlying Commercial businesses to develop weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual reports for presentation to Management.

4. Business analytics: Use key relationships, and knowledge of business strategy, trends and key events to support new opportunities to improve business analytics, and performance management tools.

5. Scenario modeling: Maintain and improve the actual model structure, testing process and implementation of the information model, and determines the best model delivery (i.e., using Power BI or MS Excel, etc.). Also creates the documentation for implementation of the models and the procedures on how to maintain the information models.

6. Cross-division FPA: Cross- train in supply and trading FPA to ensure knowledge of best practices, enhance innovation and exhibit creativity in the identifying new solutions to difficult problems.

7. Special projects: Support other initiatives and special projects as directed by the FP&A Management team.

Job Duties II

Job duties displayed above are not all-inclusive, site-specific responsibilities may be assigned.

Here are the incentives we offer:

• Remote Work options available for eligible positions
• Options are department and/or location specific
• 9/80 Work Schedule Option (where applicable)
• Annual Vacation Incentive (40-120 hours of additional pay) for Eligible Employees
• Paid Vacation Time
• Company-Paid Holidays
• Caregiver Leave
• Excellent 401(k) Match
• Pension Plan
• Performance Incentive
• Company-Paid Sick Leave and Long-Term Disability
• Medical, Dental, & Vision Plans; FSA and HSA options
• Company-Paid Life Insurance for Active Employees
• Healthy Rewards Program
• Service Awards Program
• Educational Assistance Plan
• Dependent Children Scholarships
• Reimbursement for Gym Membership
• Employee Discount Programs
• On-site Health Clinic (select locations)
• On-site Cafeteria (select locations)
• On-site Credit Union and ATM (Corporate office only)
• On-site Fitness Center (select locations)

PLEASE NOTE ALL JOBS DO NOT QUALIFY FOR ALL PERKS

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or disability.

Requisition ID - 2059

Nearest Major Market: Houston