What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director, Financial Planning & Analysis position at Talos Energy?
Description
The Director of Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) is responsible for leading enterprise-wide financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and strategic financial analysis for our company. This role partners closely with Operations planning, Operations, Exploration & Development, Drilling & Completions, Supply Chain, Accounting, HR, IT, and Executive Leadership to drive financial discipline, capital efficiency, and operational excellence across offshore assets.
Duties & Responsibilities
Strategic Financial Leadership
The Director of Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) is responsible for leading enterprise-wide financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and strategic financial analysis for our company. This role partners closely with Operations planning, Operations, Exploration & Development, Drilling & Completions, Supply Chain, Accounting, HR, IT, and Executive Leadership to drive financial discipline, capital efficiency, and operational excellence across offshore assets.
Duties & Responsibilities
Strategic Financial Leadership
- Lead the annual budgeting process and monthly forecasting cycles with Executive and Senior Leadership.
- Develop long-range financial plans aligned with production targets, reserve development strategies, and capital programs.
- Manage strategy modeling and M&A scenario analysis.
- Provide financial modeling and scenario analysis related to commodity price sensitivity, hedging strategies, and capital deployment.
- Support Board and Executive Leadership presentations with clear, actionable financial insights.
- Conduct economic evaluation lookbacks (NPV, IRR, payout, breakeven) for development projects and acquisitions.
- Monitor lease operating expenses (LOE), lifting costs, and capital expenditures (CAPEX) trends to support capital allocation decisions.
- Support reserve reporting and asset valuation analysis in collaboration with technical teams.
- Develop and maintain KPIs tied to production efficiency, cost control, and free cash flow generation.
- Analyze monthly operating results and provide variance analysis to leadership.
- Strengthen financial reporting tools and dashboards to enhance transparency and decision-making.
- Drive continuous process improvement within FP&A and across cross-functional workflows.
- Assess financial risks related to commodity price volatility, operational downtime, regulatory changes, and capital projects.
- Support liquidity planning and covenant compliance analysis.
- Partner with Accounting to ensure alignment between operational forecasts and financial reporting.
- Ensure adherence to internal controls and corporate governance standards.
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field.
- 10 years of progressive financial experience, with at least 5 years in upstream oil and gas.
- Strong understanding of offshore operations, capital project economics, and production reporting.
- Experience supporting publicly traded companies preferred.
- Advanced financial modeling and Excel proficiency; experience with ERP systems (e.g., SAP, Oracle) and planning tools required. Experience with Onestream is a plus.
- Strong analytical, communication, and executive presentation skills.
- Foster cross-functional collaboration between Finance and Operations.
- Promote financial accountability and cost discipline across the organization.
- Support sustainable growth through data-driven decision-making and capital stewardship.
- CPA, CFA or MBA preferred