Director - Corporate Planniing

Job Summary

The Director – Corporate Planning oversees the Corporate Planning team, updating the long-term financial model quarterly, working with other stakeholders in the company to evaluate contracting opportunities, and performing ad-hoc financial analysis as required to support long-term strategic planning and decision-making. This role also plays a key role in strategic decision-making regarding investment decisions, divestitures, and capital allocation.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

- Oversees updates to the long-term financial model on a quarterly basis and prepares materials for Executive Management and the Board of Directors

- Works closely with Business Development, Operations, Capital Projects, and other key stakeholders to evaluate contracting opportunities and bid economics

- Performs various scenario analyses to understand impacts of key risks and opportunities to the Company’s liquidity position

- Performs ad-hoc financial analyses for Executive Management as required

- Contributes to the corporate planning team by improving existing processes and mentoring and developing team members

- Implements and streamlines processes to gather key modeling assumptions

- Provides assistance to the Chief Financial Officer and other members of Finance and Accounting senior management as needed

- Coordinates with the Corporate Development team to help align competitor models with internal company assumptions for comparable assets

- Develops and maintains technical financial models and performs analyses to support strategic initiatives, including investment opportunities, divestitures and capital allocation

- Gathers and prepares information for Board meetings

Qualifications / Experience

- Bachelor’s degree in finance or another business-related field from an accredited college or university (required).

- Minimum of five (5) years of experience in a similar role in a business of comparable size and complexity.

- Master’s degree or CFA (preferred).

Skills & Experience

- Experience in Corporate Planning, Investment Banking, or similar roles.

- Strong analytical, research, and financial modeling skills; experience with valuation modeling preferred.

- Proficiency in Excel (required).

- Strong attention to detail and organizational skills.

- Energy industry experience (preferred).

Behaviors

As part of our commitment to fostering a high-performance culture, employees are expected to align their actions and decisions with the principles outlined in our Behavioral Framework. This framework serves as the foundation for our organizational culture and guides our behaviors to drive better outcomes across the company. Employees are responsible for incorporating these behaviors into their daily actions, relationships, and decision-making to help manage expectations, strengthen relationships, and contribute to the overall success of the organization.

Our five behaviors that define our culture are:

Analyze & Plan – Being deliberate in understanding and describing the problem to solve and using information from a range of relevant sources to develop solutions that are effective and evidence-based.

Collaborate – Collaborating effectively, sharing ideas, and leveraging one another’s strengths based on trust, transparency, and empathy, creating an environment where everyone’s input is valued.

Communicate – Communicate clearly with all employees and stakeholders, ensuring active listening, understanding, and timely information sharing.

Learn, Grow & Adapt – Building organizational capability through our own learning and development while coaching others and supporting others to adapt, learn, and develop.

Deliver Results – Striving to deliver and exceed required results, identifying and overcoming obstacles, and taking responsibility for the outcome while respecting our values.

Disclaimer

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this job. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. All personnel may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed.

Valaris is an equal opportunity employer in all aspects of employment to all individuals regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation or any other non-job related factors.

Valaris is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application process. If you need such an accommodation, or a religious accommodation, please contact recruiting@valaris.com .

About Us

-At Valaris, our core purpose is to provide responsible solutions that deliver energy to the world. Our purpose is the driving force that defines us as a leading organization in our industry. Our diverse fleet of ultra-deepwater drillships, versatile semisubmersibles and modern shallow-water jackups is capable of meeting a wide spectrum of customers’ well program requirements. Our rig fleet is among the most technologically advanced in the industry and our well-trained crews perform at the highest levels in the most challenging offshore environments. With an unwavering focus on safety and dedicated employees, we provide innovative solutions and aim to deliver excellence in everything that we do.