Sr Financial Analyst

Primary Duties

• Directs and conducts complex and strategic financial analyses and research in areas such as revenue and expense performance, capital spending, depreciation, net investment, and other special projects.
• Knows and uses advanced financial analysis concepts, practices, and procedures.
• Retrieves data from company databases and reporting systems.
• Compiles complex data and prepares clear, transparent reports, graphs, and presentations for management.
• Develops financial or economic models.
• Reviews reports for accuracy and completeness.
• Manages revenue and expense forecasts, and projections of capital spending and rate base.
• Provides forecasting scenarios to support and recommend business decisions.
• Forescasts long-term financial results and development opportunities for the Company.
• Primary contact with internal partners such as Operations, Engineering, Marketing, Rates & Regulatory, Corporate Accounting, and other Divisions when gathering financial information for budgets and forecasts.
• May represent the department on enterprise teams.
• Provides guidance to regions/departments in the formulation of their annual expense and capital budgets.
• Regularly conducts meetings and initiatives for the finance team.
• Provides input on annual revenue budget.
• Oversees annual budget input into reporting system and reconciles output to budget targets.
• Identifies and recommends financial options or strategies when evaluating business opportunities.
• Conducts audit of financial records.
• Recognizes missing or incomplete information and inconsistencies or anomalies in financial research.
• Identifies business process problems, makes decisions, and finds solutions based on interpretation of policies and procedures.
• Provides guidance and support for less-experienced financial staff members.
• Performs work with minimal guidance and a high level of independent decision-making.

  Minimum Requirements

  • Requires a Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or Economics and a minimum of five years' experience in financial analysis or accounting; or equivalent.
  • Requires the ability to communicate, persuade, and/or influence internal and external partners at a high level, such as senior management, on matters of a technical and/or complex nature.
  • Requires excellent verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills.
  • Requires strong analytical skills and ability to perform independent analysis using complex statistical, financial, and accounting methods.
  • Requires ability to utilize the Company's database systems and available resources for data entry, reference, and/or retrieval tasks.
  • Requires advanced knowledge of various software applications such as MS Word, Excel, Access, and PowerPoint to create complex financial documents, reports, graphs, and presentations.