Senior Finance Manager
Skylight
SQL
Principal Financial Analyst
Puget Sound Energy
full-time
Posted on:
Location: Washington • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $91,100 - $151,600 per year
Job Level
Lead
Tech Stack
React
About the role
- Lead the process to update the monthly outlook and/or budget forecasts and provide variance analyses.
- Present results to PSE directors and officers.
- Participate in the annual creation and facilitate evaluation of the corporate mid- and long-term financial plan.
- Help develop corporate financial strategy by interfacing with management and building interdepartmental consensus on modeling assumptions, O&M and capital targets, and financing strategies.
- Develop comprehensive financial models and various ad-hoc strategic analyses throughout the planning cycle.
- Contribute to or lead the delivery of recommendations resulting from quantitative and qualitative analyses.
- Anticipate and identify areas of opportunity or business risks and communicate action plans to stakeholders.
- Produce presentations for finance management committees and the Board of Directors.
- Continually improve forecast integrity using internal/external information, researching new metrics and modeling techniques, benchmarking, and data analytics.
- Promote best practices of modeling techniques, methodologies, controls, and documentation.
- Instruct investor analysts on modeling PSE business activity and provide analytic direction to the business case team.
- Promote accountability of financial assumptions and results across the organization and support rate proceedings by answering data requests.
- Lead, train, and mentor staff in development, administration, and analysis of corporate financial plans.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Finance, Accounting or related field and/or equivalent experience with progressively increasing level of responsibility
- 5+ years in finance roles with progressively increasing levels of responsibility
- Excellent communication, writing and presentation skills with the ability to interface effectively with all levels of management
- Ability to work effectively without direct supervision in a fast paced, stressful, and multitasking environment
- Master's Degree in a quantitative field or MBA (desired)
- Applicable Finance Certification (CFA, CPA, CTP) (desired)
- 5+ years of experience in the gas and/or electric industry (desired)
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects and create capacity (desired)
- Ability to adapt and react to unforeseen business decisions and situations (desired)
- Experience leading and delivering projects under tight deadlines (desired)
- Experience with UI Solutions software a plus (desired)
