Financial Analysis and Board Reporting Manager

Your mission

Turn numbers into decisions. You will sit within Finance and partner closely with C-level Executives, Investments, Trading, Treasury, Finance, Risk, and other key functions to distil complex commercial and financial data into sharp actionable insights that move the P&L and/or materially mitigate key risks. You also partner with IT to automate analysis and design dashboards.

What you’ll do

• Investments analysis: Partner with the Investment and Accounting teams to develop a deep understanding of Vitol's financials and investment performance across upstream, downstream and energy-transition and distil it into rigorous, board-ready analysis that informs capital-allocation and strategic decisions.

• Drive performance analytics: Build from a blank sheet in Excel to explain P&L drivers, margins, exposures and working capital; deliver variance bridges, sensitivities and stress tests that withstand challenge.

• Executive storytelling: Produce crisp, board-ready narratives and 1-pagers that cut through complexity; recommend clear go/no-go calls and next actions.

• Management reporting: Define KPIs and design live dashboards capable of providing instant high-level strategic insight and detailed granularity when needed.

• Strategy reviews: Lead periodic desk and regional reviews; identify value levers and drive next steps.

• New business analysis: Size opportunities, assess risks, design operating models for entries in new markets.

• Change leadership: Pilot, iterate and land new reporting/processes; track adoption and measurable impact.

Required Qualifications

• Proven top performance: 2 years at a top-tier strategy or M&A role (MBB strongly preferred) or an equivalently rigorous strategy/finance role in markets. Top-decile performer.

• Academics: Top-tier University degree in Economics, Finance, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or related field.

• Elite Excel: Fast, precise, creative. Dynamic arrays, nested logic, model structuring, scenario/sensitivity analysis, large-data pivots; Power Query/Power Pivot.

• Quantitative edge: You’re fearless with numbers and ambiguity; strong intuition for economics, statistics, risk and value drivers; can zoom from cell-level detail to first-principles theory.

• Executive-grade communication: Clear logic, concise writing, clean visuals, and presence with senior stakeholders.

• Ownership and pace: Bias to action, high standards, sound judgment.

• High EQ: you are humble, understand the importance of relationships and human connections and act accordingly.

Nice to have

• Python for analysis/data shaping (e.g., pandas).

• Power BI/Automate for executive dashboards.

• Prior exposure to commodities/energy or derivatives; familiarity with trading/risk data.

What success looks like in 12 months

• Measurable uplifts in desk profitability or capital efficiency tied to your analyses.

• Process change and/or system design that improves forecast accuracy and cuts cycle time materially for a key business process.

Interview process

• Expect 5 interviews (usually grouped in 2 steps), including brain teasers, mental math, a business case and an Excel-based working session.