Performance engineer Jobs in Calgary, AB

Worker Type: EmployeeJob Post End Date: 07/07/2026

About this opportunity:

As a Senior Performance & Reporting Analyst, you will lead through influence, ensuring alignment across key stakeholders. This role requires close collaboration with Downstream leadership, the Downstream Business Office, refinery manufacturing finance teams, as well as corporate planning and reporting functions. A critical component of success is building and maintaining strong relationships across downstream operations, finance teams, and performance networks. You will be responsible for establishing robust governance over financial processes at individual manufacturing sites while supporting business stakeholders in gathering, consolidating, and reporting key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics. This role also involves identifying, planning, and implementing strategic finance improvements aimed at enhancing analytical quality, reducing reporting duplication, increasing productivity, and improving reporting cycle times—ultimately driving greater operational efficiency.

What you’ll do:

• Support the development of Performance Management Reporting (“PMR”) the downstream leadership and executive reporting packages, including building PMR and forecast data models

• Provide oversight of consolidated Downstream data across sites and commercial operations, including actuals, forecasts, and budgets

• Perform monthly and quarterly margin analysis, delivering insights and clear narratives for downstream leadership

• Analyze and reconcile benchmark and configuration performance against realized results, quantifying key operational and market drivers

• Maintain and enhance financial models and reporting tools, partnering with commercial accounting to produce P&L reporting and price-volume variance analysis

• Coordinate Downstream Asset Retirement Obligation reporting and contribute to quarter-end external reporting deliverables

• Respond to ad hoc data requests, conducting detailed analysis and presenting findings to stakeholders

• Apply strong knowledge of IFRS and GAAP to support accurate financial reporting and analysis

Who you are:

Our ideal candidate will have the following minimum requirements:

• Legally authorized to work in Canada

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, commerce, economics, or a related field, with a minimum of 8 years of progressive experience in finance and reporting

• CPA designation would be considered an asset

• Strong knowledge of IFRS and GAAP, with a CPA designation required

• Advanced analytical capabilities with experience developing automated, standardized, and scalable reporting processes

• Proven track record of driving process improvements and enhancing reporting quality and efficiency

• Prior experience in refining and a strong understanding of downstream operations and manufacturing environments is considered an asset

Note: The application deadline for this position is 11:59 PM MT July 6, 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.

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.

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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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