Senior Financial Analyst

Summary

As a Senior Financial Analyst supporting the Retail business, you will own key forecasting, performance reporting, and financial modeling deliverables used by leaders to make day-to-day and strategic decisions.

Essential Duties/Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain complex financial models that forecast detailed profit and loss, cash flows, and balance sheets
• Work closely with the Retail teams to determine appropriate modeling assumptions and ensure they are reasonable and accurate
• Prepare monthly & annual presentations for Retail leadership including creating and/or updating graphs and charts for financial and non-financial data
• Gather, analyze, prepare, and summarize recommendations for financial plans, acquisition activity, future requirements, operating forecasts, etc.
• Prepares monthly variance analyses
• Aid in the development of standardized reporting of key performance indicators that will be reported in monthly scorecards
• Foster relationships with various departments within NRG while continually seeking opportunities to improve processes
• Partner with various departments to resolve technical issues affecting financial analyses
• Maintain oversight of business processes, conduct analysis, make recommendations, and coordinate implementation for system and process improvements
• Participate in and complete special projects as assigned by management

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business, finance or accounting from an accredited college or university
• Expertise in ERP systems (Oracle, SAP), Microsoft Office Suite (e.g. advanced Excel) and other financial reporting tools

Preferred Qualifications

• 5-8 years of finance experience within the energy industry or a shared services model
• Proficiency in SQL for data extraction and reporting

Skills/Competencies

• Works independently using initiative and self-motivation
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excels in quickly conceptualizing data to make decisions to take appropriate action
• Good written skills to document processes, policies and procedures
• Ability to work effectively in a team-oriented environment
• Proficient in communicating to a wide range of audiences in both written and oral form
• Comfortably handles risk and uncertainty

Working Conditions

• Hybrid work schedule; (4 days a week onsite/1 day remote)
• Open office environment
• Standard business hours; however additional flexibility is expected during key forecasting and reporting cycles to meet business deadlines
• Limited travel if any

NRG Energy is committed to a drug and alcohol-free workplace. To the extent permitted by law and any applicable collective bargaining agreement, employees are subject to periodic random drug testing, and post-accident and reasonable suspicion drug and alcohol testing.

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