Senior Financial Systems Analyst

About the role

Help shape how APS manages the financial operations behind one of the company's most critical technology investments.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and continuous improvement of financial reporting, pricing, and reconciliation processes that support critical business operations.
• Design and maintain financial models, cost allocation methodologies, and reporting solutions that provide actionable insights for business leaders.
• Manage complex financial and operational reporting across multiple enterprise systems, ensuring data integrity, reconciliation, and compliance with established controls.
• Partner with Accounting, Finance, Financial Business Office (FBO), IT, Strategy, and business leaders to translate complex data into meaningful business insights.
• Lead or support financial systems implementations, reporting enhancements, and process improvement initiatives that strengthen reporting capabilities and internal controls.
• Develop executive-level dashboards, reports, and financial analyses that support strategic planning and investment decisions.
• Serve as the department's technical subject matter expert for financial reporting systems, reconciliation processes, and enterprise financial data.
• Provide consultative guidance to cross-functional stakeholders by troubleshooting reporting issues, interpreting financial data, and recommending scalable business solutions.

Requirements

• BS degree in Business, Accounting or Finance
• Plus five (5) years experience in accounting reconciliation, energy billing, or financial reporting and analysis; current experience in utility operations related to generation modeling, deregulated retail, and trading; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Preferred Knowledge, Skills & Experience

• Experience developing financial models, pricing methodologies, or cost allocation frameworks that support strategic business decisions.
• Demonstrated success leading or supporting large, cross-functional financial or systems implementation projects.
• Experience designing, implementing, or improving financial reporting processes, reconciliation workflows, and internal controls.
• Strong working knowledge of ERP systems, financial reporting tools, business intelligence platforms, and advanced Excel-based financial modeling.
• Experience analyzing and reconciling large, complex financial datasets across multiple systems and business functions.
• Proven ability to communicate financial insights and recommendations to senior leadership and executive stakeholders.
• Experience partnering with Accounting, Finance, IT, Strategy, or other cross-functional business teams to deliver enterprise-wide financial solutions.
• Knowledge of project financial management, infrastructure cost management, or enterprise cost allocation methodologies.
• Demonstrated ability to identify process improvement opportunities and implement scalable, sustainable financial reporting solutions.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills with the ability to balance technical detail and business strategy.

Major Accountabilities

• May coordinate, integrate financial data flow, analyze, prepare and ensure monthly operations reports covering gross margin, compare total sales and revenue to annual targets; oversee validation, analysis and reporting of direct access settlements; assist in the development of marketing strategies by providing consultation on financial impact of moving power into other States; oversee process of pass-through billing of direct access settlements to ISO and other entities through special contract billing arrangements; maintain acumen by reviewing legal findings, regulatory rules, pronouncements, contracts and operating agreements; interface with IS organization to ensure functionality of settlement validation and reporting system; develop settlement system specifications.
• May ensure that the reconciliation of transactions recorded by the traders and marketers to system records occurs on a daily basis and that the formal daily check out process of positions with traders is accomplished in accordance with department guidelines; resolve disputes and support with proper documentation; ensure book positions are within parameters/limits defined in control documents, strategies used are within approved guidelines and that transaction classifications are proper.
• May serve as technical resource to department analysts and other personnel on resolving interpreting contracts/agreements, settlement issues, and account booking of transactions. Develops solutions/alternatives to complex problems requiring evaluation of a broad range of factors and which involve trading strategies, the evaluation and risk management of futures, options, and other derivatives; Exercises judgment within broadly defined practices and policies in determining methods, techniques, and evaluating criteria for obtaining results; Serves as technical resource to other staff members in developing analysis and interpreting contract parameters/ agreements/ policies to ensure compliance with policies and government rules and regulations. May develop specification enhancements of database systems used to develop solutions to data integrity and reporting.