Business Office Advisor, Data & IT

About this opportunity:

The Data and IT Business Office is seeking a driven Business Office Advisor to support and manage the Data & IT (D&IT) budget lifecycle. This role is responsible for delivering monthly and quarterly financial reporting and analysis, providing executive leadership with clear visibility into spending patterns and value drivers. The Advisor will play a key role in strengthening budget governance, cost control, and overall financial visibility across D&IT.

What you’ll do:

• Support monthly forecasting, outlooks, budgeting cycles, and ongoing financial reporting activities

• Track budget compliance by reviewing unplanned spend requests, obtaining required approvals, and assessing impacts on future-year budgets

• Reconcile monthly SAP actuals against budget and forecast, including variance analysis, accruals, and supporting documentation, and deliver clear, executive-level insights

• Contribute to monthly, annual, and multi‑year Corporate Planning budgeting and forecasting processes for the IT organization, including reconciliations and variance analysis

• Interpret and communicate complex financial and business results to diverse stakeholder groups

• Partner across the organization to identify variances and support the implementation of corrective actions

• Collaborate closely with the IT Portfolio team to enable effective project financial oversight and governance

• Prepare management reporting packages, dashboards, and detailed variance analyses

• Maintain G&A cost center master data to ensure accurate and consistent financial reporting

• Provide data-driven insights and ad hoc financial analysis to support leadership decision‑making

• Coordinate with Corporate Accounting on journals, prepaids, accruals, and month‑end close activities

Who you are:

Our ideal candidate will have the following minimum requirements:

• Legal authority to work in Canada

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, or a related field

• Minimum of 5 years of relevant business budgeting experience, preferably within the oil and gas industry

• Solid understanding of IFRS and core accounting principles

• CPA designation completed or near completion

• Strong proficiency in SAP

• Advanced skills in PowerPoint, Power BI, and financial data analysis tools

• Proven analytical, organizational, and time management capabilities, with the ability to translate complex data into meaningful insights and meet tight deadlines in a fast‑paced environment

We acknowledge the value of transferable skills and may consider equivalent combinations of experience and education should you not meet a specific requirement.

Note: The application deadline for this position is 11:59 PM MT Sunday April 19th, 2026.

Cenovus was ranked one of Canada’s Best Employers in 2025. We’re committed to being an employer of choice in our industry by offering a competitive total rewards package and employee programs and rewarding career development opportunities. Learn more.  

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Who we are:

Ranked as one of Canada’s Best Employers in 2025, Cenovus is an integrated energy company headquartered in Calgary. We’re committed to maximizing value by developing our assets in a safe, responsible and cost-efficient manner. We operate in Canada, the United States and the Asia Pacific region. Our operations include oil sands projects in northern Alberta, thermal and conventional crude oil and natural gas projects across Western Canada, crude oil production offshore Newfoundland and Labrador and natural gas and liquids production offshore China and Indonesia. Cenovus’s downstream operations include upgrading, refining and marketing operations in Canada and the United States.

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The Cenovus experience

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 $25,000 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.

Equal opportunity employer

We believe a workplace where everyone has merit-based opportunities to grow, achieve career aspirations and feel a sense of belonging benefits our people, our company and the regions where we live and work. We embrace and encourage different perspectives and approaches, which help us make better business decisions. We believe that through this approach, we can solve challenges, seize opportunities and unlock innovative solutions.

To achieve an unbiased and respectful workplace, individuals are evaluated based on qualifications, merit and abilities, and we encourage applications from all qualified candidates. We also acknowledge the value of transferrable skills and may consider equivalent combinations of experience and education should you not meet a specific requirement.

For more information about working at Cenovus, visit cenovus.com.

The requirements of this posting may be modified to support business needs. Title and compensation administration will be based on the skills and capabilities of the successful incumbent.

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