We are looking for a skilled Financial Analyst/Manager to join our team in Houston, Texas. This role is integral to driving financial planning, analysis, and decision-making across the organization. The ideal candidate will utilize their expertise in forecasting, budgeting, and private equity to deliver valuable insights and strategies to senior leadership.<br><br>Responsibilities:<br>• Manage and oversee the budgeting, forecasting, and long-term financial planning processes to support organizational goals.<br>• Conduct in-depth variance analysis to identify trends and provide actionable recommendations to senior management.<br>• Develop and maintain financial models to evaluate private equity investments and other strategic initiatives.<br>• Prepare and present detailed financial reports and performance data to executives and stakeholders.<br>• Supervise cash flow forecasting and oversee processes related to letters of credit.<br>• Ensure compliance with financial regulations and statutory requirements in all practices.<br>• Utilize advanced Excel and other financial systems to optimize data analysis and reporting.<br>• Collaborate with senior leadership to align financial strategies with business objectives.<br>• Provide timely and accurate financial insights to support decision-making processes.<br>• Lead presentations of financial projections and findings to stakeholders and senior executives.
<p>Financial Analyst</p><p>The Woodlands, TX (Fully In-Office)</p><p>Our client, a growing regional organization with operations across multiple states, is seeking a Financial Analyst for an immediate opportunity. This is a newly created position driven by company growth and offers significant visibility throughout the organization.</p><p>The Financial Analyst will partner closely with Accounting, Finance, Operational, Supply Chain, and Logistics leadership to analyze business performance, develop meaningful reporting, and identify opportunities for operational improvement. This role is ideal for a data-driven professional who enjoys working with large datasets, building impactful dashboards, and supporting strategic decision-making.</p><p>Key Responsibilities</p><ul><li>Analyze operational and financial data to identify trends, opportunities, and key performance indicators (KPIs).</li><li>Develop, maintain, and enhance complex reporting and dashboards utilizing Power BI.</li><li>Partner with Accounting, Finance, Operations, Supply Chain, and Logistics teams to provide actionable insights that drive business performance.</li><li>Monitor and analyze capital expenditures (CapEx) and operational expenditures (OpEx).</li><li>Support the purchase, movement, tracking, and analysis of physical goods across multiple locations.</li><li>Perform supply chain and logistics analysis to identify inefficiencies, optimize processes, and improve operational performance.</li><li>Analyze inventory movement, utilization trends, transportation metrics, and distribution-related data to support business objectives.</li><li>Assist leadership with forecasting, budgeting, performance analysis, and operational reporting.</li><li>Create and automate reporting processes to improve efficiency and decision-making.</li><li>Present findings and recommendations to various levels of management.</li></ul><p><br></p>
<p>Cindy Bradley at Robert Half is actively recruiting for a Financial Analyst to support business performance through insightful reporting, forecasting, and decision-focused analysis for a Oil/Gas client located in WEST Houston, Texas. This position is well suited for someone who is detail oriented and can translate complex financial data into clear recommendations for stakeholders across the organization. The ideal candidate brings strong modeling expertise, sharp attention to detail, and the ability to manage both recurring analysis and time-sensitive business requests.</p><p><br></p><p>Responsibilities:</p><p>• Develop financial models and analytical frameworks to evaluate performance, support planning activities, and guide strategic decisions.</p><p>• Prepare recurring and on-demand financial analyses that explain results, highlight trends, and identify key business drivers.</p><p>• Conduct variance reviews by comparing actual performance against budgets, forecasts, and prior periods, then summarize findings for leadership.</p><p>• Extract, organize, and interpret large data sets using advanced analysis techniques to uncover actionable insights.</p><p>• Build and maintain dashboards and reporting tools in Excel and Power BI to improve visibility into financial and operational metrics.</p><p>• Partner with cross-functional teams to gather inputs, validate assumptions, and deliver accurate financial recommendations.</p><p>• Support reporting and consolidation activities within OneStream while helping improve the consistency and reliability of financial data.</p><p>• Present analysis in a concise and business-friendly manner to assist leaders with planning, forecasting, and performance management.</p>
We are looking for a Financial Analyst to support crude oil settlement activities in Houston, Texas. This position focuses on ensuring transactions are recorded, validated, and settled accurately while partnering with commercial, operational, and accounting teams. The ideal candidate brings strong analytical judgment, experience in energy-related financial processes, and the ability to manage complex data and contract terms in a fast-moving environment.<br><br>Responsibilities:<br>• Oversee the full settlement cycle for physical crude oil transactions across transportation and storage channels, ensuring timely and accurate processing.<br>• Examine contract terms and commercial agreements to determine the correct application of pricing structures, fees, quality adjustments, and transportation charges.<br>• Verify transaction details by analyzing volumes, market pricing inputs, tariff schedules, and related financial calculations.<br>• Investigate and resolve variances by reconciling internal records with counterparty documentation and external statements.<br>• Prepare billing and settlement documentation, track outstanding balances, and coordinate follow-up on payment issues or disputed items.<br>• Partner with trading, scheduling, risk, and accounting teams to confirm complete transaction capture and reliable financial reporting.<br>• Contribute to month-end activities by supporting accrual preparation, account analysis, and settlement-related reporting requirements.<br>• Strengthen operational controls by documenting procedures, improving workflows, and assisting with process automation or system enhancement efforts.<br>• Provide day-to-day guidance to less experienced team members and promote consistent settlement practices across the group.
We are looking for a Financial Analyst to join a manufacturing organization in Katy, Texas in a contract capacity with the potential to become permanent. This opportunity is well suited for someone who enjoys turning financial data into clear business insights and partnering with teams to support sound decision-making. The ideal candidate brings a foundation in finance or accounting, strong technical skills in Excel and reporting tools, and the ability to manage priorities with limited oversight.<br><br>Responsibilities:<br>• Evaluate financial results and trends to identify key drivers affecting business performance.<br>• Build and maintain financial models that support forecasting, planning, and scenario analysis.<br>• Prepare variance reports and explain differences between actual results, budgets, and projections.<br>• Conduct ad hoc analysis to answer business questions and support leadership decision-making.<br>• Organize and interpret large data sets using Excel and data analysis techniques to improve reporting accuracy.<br>• Develop dashboards or visual reports in Power BI or comparable tools to communicate financial insights effectively.<br>• Create clear presentations that summarize findings, recommendations, and performance updates for stakeholders.<br>• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather information, validate assumptions, and improve financial reporting processes.
We are looking for an experienced Lead Data Engineer to oversee the design, implementation, and management of advanced data infrastructure in Houston, Texas. This role requires expertise in architecting scalable solutions, optimizing data pipelines, and ensuring data quality to support analytics, machine learning, and real-time processing. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of Lakehouse architecture and Medallion design principles to deliver robust and governed data solutions.<br><br>Responsibilities:<br>• Develop and implement scalable data pipelines to ingest, process, and store large datasets using tools such as Apache Spark, Hadoop, and Kafka.<br>• Utilize cloud platforms like AWS or Azure to manage data storage and processing, leveraging services such as S3, Lambda, and Azure Data Lake.<br>• Design and operationalize data architecture following Medallion patterns to ensure data usability and quality across Bronze, Silver, and Gold layers.<br>• Build and optimize data models and storage solutions, including Databricks Lakehouses, to support analytical and operational needs.<br>• Automate data workflows using tools like Apache Airflow and Fivetran to streamline integration and improve efficiency.<br>• Lead initiatives to establish best practices in data management, facilitating knowledge sharing and collaboration across technical and business teams.<br>• Collaborate with data scientists to provide infrastructure and tools for complex analytical models, using programming languages like Python or R.<br>• Implement and enforce data governance policies, including encryption, masking, and access controls, within cloud environments.<br>• Monitor and troubleshoot data pipelines for performance issues, applying tuning techniques to enhance throughput and reliability.<br>• Stay updated with emerging technologies in data engineering and advocate for improvements to the organization's data systems.
<p>We are seeking an experienced Python Data Engineer to join our growing data team. This role will focus on building and supporting scalable data solutions that ingest, process, and deliver real-time and near real-time data across the organization. The ideal candidate will have experience working in financial services, energy, or oil & gas environments, where timely, accurate data is critical to business operations and decision-making.</p><p>You will partner closely with business leaders, analysts, data scientists, and application teams to develop robust data pipelines, integrate external and internal data sources, and enhance enterprise data capabilities.</p><p>Responsibilities</p><ul><li>Design, develop, and maintain scalable Python-based ETL and data integration solutions.</li><li>Build reusable data acquisition components to consume APIs, market feeds, operational systems, IoT devices, and third-party data sources.</li><li>Develop and support real-time and near real-time data pipelines for business-critical reporting and analytics.</li><li>Collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements and translate business needs into technical solutions.</li><li>Enhance and maintain enterprise data engineering frameworks and standards.</li><li>Ensure data quality, reliability, performance, and governance across the data ecosystem.</li><li>Support Oracle databases, PL/SQL development, and data warehouse integrations.</li><li>Partner with global teams to deliver high-quality data solutions and support ongoing business initiatives.</li><li>Participate in architecture discussions and contribute to best practices around data engineering and software development.</li></ul><p><br></p><p>Preferred Qualifications</p><ul><li>Experience in financial services, banking, asset management, energy, commodities, or oil & gas industries.</li><li>Experience supporting operational, market, production, pricing, risk, or financial data platforms.</li><li>Knowledge of cloud-based data platforms and modern data architecture.</li><li>Experience with data warehousing, data lakes, and enterprise reporting solutions.</li></ul><p>Technical Environment</p><p>Python, Oracle, PL/SQL, Pandas, NumPy, Selenium, BeautifulSoup, REST APIs, ETL, Data Pipelines, Real-Time Data Processing, Data Warehousing, Git, Agile, Cloud Technologies</p><p>Ideal Candidate: A hands-on Data Engineer with strong Python development skills, experience working with real-time business data, and a background supporting data platforms in financial services, energy, or oil & gas organizations.</p><p><br></p>
<p>We are seeking a Business Analyst with experience supporting IFS Energy & Resources (formerly P2 Energy Solutions) applications in an upstream oil & gas environment. This role will partner with Finance, Accounting, Land, Operations, and IT teams to improve business processes, support enterprise applications, and deliver technology solutions that drive operational efficiency.</p><p>Responsibilities</p><ul><li>Gather and document business requirements for system enhancements and process improvements.</li><li>Support and optimize IFS/P2 applications, including troubleshooting issues and coordinating resolutions.</li><li>Work closely with business users, IT teams, and software vendors on enhancements, upgrades, and support activities.</li><li>Develop and execute test plans, UAT, and release validation.</li><li>Analyze data and perform SQL-based troubleshooting and validation.</li><li>Identify opportunities to improve system performance, reliability, and business workflows.</li></ul><p><br></p>