The posting
At South Bow, we do one thing, and we do it well: safely moving oil between some of the world’s most critical markets. We’re building our high-performing team with versatile thinkers who thrive on solving big challenges together. If you’re ready for a position where your skills are highly valued and your work is incredibly important, we want to meet you. Bring your talents to a new streamlined energy company, dedicated to operational, commercial and safety excellence as we pursue our critical purpose of delivering the energy people need.
The Opportunity
South Bow is seeking a high-potential professional to support our Corporate Development and Evaluations & Planning functions. On the Corporate Development side, you will help identify, evaluate, and execute M&A transactions, partnerships, and other growth opportunities. On the Evaluations & Planning side, you will help evaluate investment decisions and prepare the company’s budget, forecast, and long-range plan. The role provides broad exposure to the financial analysis that supports major investment and planning decisions across the organization.
This role works closely with senior leaders and cross-functional teams, building and maintaining financial models and preparing analysis and materials for decision-making.
What You'll Do
Corporate Development
- Assist in evaluating strategic opportunities, including acquisitions, divestitures, partnerships, and other growth initiatives.
- Contribute to analytical workstreams, including financial modeling, valuation analysis, scenario analysis, and interpretation of commercial agreements.
- Assist due diligence processes by coordinating inputs, assessing key risks, and synthesizing findings for transaction decision-making.
- Support transaction execution by coordinating with legal counsel, financial advisors, and internal teams (such as Finance, Tax, Commercial, and Operations) and tracking workplans and deliverables.
- Prepare clear, high-quality materials for senior leadership and the Board to support market updates, strategic discussions, and investment decisions.
- Monitor and document developments in the energy infrastructure sector, including peer activity, M&A transactions, capital markets activity, and the competitive landscape.
Evaluations & Planning
- Prepare economic evaluations of organic and inorganic opportunities, including valuation and corporate financial impacts analysis.
- Update the corporate model to reflect the latest budget, forecast, and actual results.
- Assist in preparing the annual budget, forecast, and long-range plan, including key assumptions, sensitivities, and variance analysis against actual results.
- Prepare summaries of key drivers, risks, and opportunities in the corporate plan to support discussions with senior leadership.
- Collaborate with Finance, Commercial, and Operations to gather inputs and align on the assumptions used in economic evaluations and the corporate plan.
- Support post-investment reviews by comparing actual performance to the assumptions used in original evaluations and documenting lessons learned.
Minimum Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in business, finance, economics, engineering, or a related discipline.
- 4-6 years of relevant experience in financial analysis, investment banking, consulting, corporate development, corporate finance, or corporate planning.
- Strong financial modeling, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to synthesize complex information into clear, actionable insights for decision-making.
- High degree of initiative, intellectual curiosity, and learning agility.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Proficiency with Excel, Word and PowerPoint, with the ability to produce accurate analysis and clear presentation materials.
Preferred Qualifications
- Background or demonstrated interest in energy, infrastructure, commodities, or capital-intensive industries.
- Experience supporting M&A transactions, economic evaluations and budgeting & forecasting.
About our business
South Bow's existing oil & liquids pipeline infrastructure connects Alberta crude oil supplies to U.S. refining markets in Illinois, Oklahoma, Texas and the U.S. Gulf Coast. We remain committed to meeting the energy needs of North Americans today, while advancing our Liquids Pipelines System for the demands of the future. Connecting growing Canadian and U.S. crude oil supply to key markets, leveraging existing assets and seeking new opportunities to continue to provide our customers with access to the destinations they need.
South Bow is an equal opportunity employer and participates in the E-Verify program supervised by the U.S. government.
Learn more
Visit us at http://SouthBow.com and connect with us on our social media channels for our latest news, employee stories, community activities, and other updates.
Thank you for choosing South Bow in your career search.
* Depending on qualifications, the successful candidate may be offered a position at a more appropriate level and/or ladder.
* Applicants must have legal authorization to work in the country in which the position is based with no restrictions.
* All positions require background screening. Some require criminal and/or credit checks to comply with regulations.
* South Bow is committed to provide employment opportunities to all qualified individuals, without regard to race, religion, age, sex, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, or disability. Accommodation for applicants with disabilities is available on request during the recruitment process. Applicants with disabilities can request accessible formats or communication supports by contacting [email protected].
