Sr Finance Control Advisor, Americas - Refining, Biofuels & Hydrogen

Entity: Finance Job Family Group: Finance Group Job Description: The Senior Finance Portfolio Control Advisor supports the portfolio’s control agenda, acting as the central integrator across the Refining and Biofuels businesses based in Chicago. The role provides expert guidance, oversight, and challenge to on-site finance and control teams, ensuring a consistent, robust, and future-fit control environment. It drives alignment in accounting, strengthens balance sheet integrity, and enables high-quality decision-making through disciplined governance. The role ensures that controls are standardized, scalable, and embedded, while supporting business evolution and transformation. Key Accountabilities Act as the central control advisor for the refining portfolio, providing insights, guidance, oversight, and challenge to site controllers and finance teams Drive consistent accounting treatment across sites, defining standards, resolving differences, and ensuring adoption Provide portfolio-level oversight of the control environment, identifying systemic risks, trends, and control gaps, then driving remediation & standardization Act as escalation point and technical expert for complex areas (e.g. Inventory Valuation, COSA, NRV, impairment assessments, JV structures, strategic arrangements Coordinate and guide portfolio wide quarter close processes, ensuring consistency and alignment to ICFR standards Support leadership on investment decisions, new business scenarios, and complex financial initiatives, ensuring appropriate control design and governance Support system implementations and transformation programs, ensuring strong controls through change Provide relevant support for projects and broader business needs as requested Essential Experience Extensive experience in financial controls, accounting, and compliance frameworks within complex, multi-entity or international environments Strong technical expertise in operational and manufacturing accounting, inclu