Finance

Apply your financial expertise in the dynamic energy industry. At Chevron, you’ll find a wide range of career options where you can apply your skills and knowledge within the Chevron Finance Organization, including:

• Comptroller’s Office
• Finance Shared Services
• Internal Audit
• Investor Relations
• Treasury
• Tax
• Tax Credit Investment

Finance at Chevron

Finance plays an important role in Chevron, providing the financial guidance and direction that balances quality, risk and value in a changing business environment. Creating and upholding ethical decisions is just one way to help shape the financial future of Chevron. This includes:

• Accounting policy guidance
• Complex transactional processing
• Evaluating credit opportunities and risks
• Internal controls/compliance
• Lawfully minimizing taxes
• Optimizing cash position and debt management
• Realistic financial forecasts and economic evaluations
• Sound, accurate financial statements
• Strategy formulation

Who we hire

We’re looking for highly motivated people who want to develop and excel in a team-based environment. Specifically we’re seeking individuals with the following skills:

• Accounting — the ability to apply accounting policies and practices
• Analysis and problem solving — the ability to analyze financial information, select and gather data, and recommend or determine a course of action
• Technology — the ability to use sophisticated software and other technology, including SAP, Hyperion and Microsoft Office suite
• Teamwork — a strong commitment to achieve and maintain cohesive working relationships with internal partners and external customers
• Initiative and leadership — the ability to work in unstructured work environments with immature work processes, to handle multiple job responsibilities, set priorities, maintain a high level of accomplishment and to implement improvements to processes
• Integrity — the ability to uphold and model the high standards of the Finance function
• Communication — the ability to listen carefully and to use clear, concise oral and written skills to convey facts, present positions and interpret policies

Other desirable traits include experience with capital stewardship, decision/economic analysis, project evaluation, project management, and the desire and willingness to work in a variety of locations around the world.

What you’ll do

Chevron offers opportunities in the Global Finance Center of Focus and in Regional Finance Offices that support our operating companies around the world. What you’ll do depends on the division and location in which you work, but you’ll generally lead or support one or more of these activities:

• Capital budgeting and cost analysis
• Corporate or operating company-specific accounting and regulatory reporting
• Financial forecasting, analysis and reporting
• Finance/accounting counsel and consulting
• Internal controls/compliance
• Liaise with other finance divisions
• Tracking accountability/score card metrics
• Sarbanes Oxley compliance and reporting

Where you’ll work

Chevron is a global company with a presence in approximately 180 countries around the world. Global Finance locations include:

• Angola
• Argentina
• Australia
• Brazil
• Canada
• Kazakhstan
• Nigeria
• Singapore
• Thailand
• United Kingdom

Most U.S. assignments are located in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, and in Houston, Texas.