Worker Type: Employee
Job Post End Date: 08/29/2026
About this opportunity:The primary purpose of the Financial Analyst, Oil Sands Capital Accounting, is to ensure the accurate recording, analysis, and reporting of capital expenditures for select oil sands assets. Key responsibilities include recording accruals to reflect incurred costs, preparing and posting adjusting journal entries, and performing detailed analyses to ensure data integrity. The role also involves preparing reports to summarize capital spend, analyzing variances against budget and forecast, and providing clear, insightful commentary to support financial reporting.
What you'll do: - Prepare and analyze monthly capital accruals for assigned Oil Sands properties.
- Collaborate with business partners and utilize accrual tools to develop accurate cost estimates, ensuring completeness and reliability of data.
- Perform monthly cost and variance analysis, including clear explanations of capital spend and deviations from budget and forecast.
- Partner with the business to set up and review WBS elements and AFEs for capital projects.
- Support Monthly Performance Management Reporting (PMR) requirements.
- Prepare and post journal entries to ensure accurate financial reporting.
- Participate in quarterly financial statement reviews and provide relevant information for areas of accountability.
- Liaise with tax and audit teams to support inquiries related to capital expenditures.
- Collaborate with the risk team in preparing recoverable cost estimates.
- Prepare quarterly accounting memos related to exploration and evaluation capital spend.
Who you are:Our ideal candidate will have the following minimum requirements:
- Legally authorized to work in Canada
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in the oil and gas industry, with a focus on finance, accounting, and/or upstream operations.
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related discipline.
- CPA designation is considered an asset.
- Highly organized, adaptable, and able to manage competing priorities to deliver time-sensitive work.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to effectively engage across all levels of the organization.
- Previous experience in upstream finance is considered an asset.
Note: The application deadline for this position is 11:59 PM MT August 28th, 2026. Total rewards We're committed to being an employer of choice through competitive compensation and our comprehensive total rewards package, including:
- Paid vacation (including a flex day program for eligible staff)
- Health & dental benefits
- Substantial mental health coverage
- Life insurance
- Disability benefits
- Employee family assistance
- Virtual healthcare coverage
Our development philosophy We foster a culture of continuous learning and development to support employees as they build meaningful careers. We offer a variety of employee development initiatives, including:
- Internal course offerings
- Education assistance for additional development
- Opportunities to work on special projects
- Leadership development programs for emerging and established leaders
We actively promote internal job movement, recognizing the value of gaining new perspectives, building connections across teams, and applying expertise in new ways. As a fully integrated energy company, we believe that sharing knowledge across our business and operations creates stronger outcomes-for employees and for the company as a whole.
Our culture - Our purpose: We energize the world to make people's lives better.
- Our values:
- Protect what matters
- Do it right
- Make it better
- Do it together
- Cenovus Cares: We believe in the power of purpose-driven work. Our Employee Giving and Volunteering Program, Cenovus Cares, connects our people to our purpose, inspiring action and elevating impact year-round.
- Support causes you care about with volunteer opportunities in and outside of work.
- Earn donation grants while volunteering (up to $1,000 per event).
- Receive donation matching up to $10,000 annually.
- Staff resource groups: We have various staff resource groups to help ensure our people feel a sense of belonging and can grow and do their best work. These voluntary groups are employee-led and all groups are open to all staff in all locations.
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