Finance Business Manager

Finance Business Manager

Puget Sound Energy is looking to grow our community with top talented individuals like you! With our rapidly growing, award winning energy efficiency programs, our pathway to an exciting and innovative future is now. PSE's Financial Planning & Analysis team is looking for qualified candidates to fill an open Finance Business Manager position! Specific details regarding the work arrangements for this position will be discussed in further detail during the interview process.

Puget Sound Energy (PSE) is looking for a Finance Business Manager to join our Corporate Financial Planning & Analysis team. In this role, you will support the organization's short and mid-term financial forecasting by performing qualitative and quantitative analyses to drive decision-making, support corporate initiatives and resolve complex issues in creative and effective ways. The primary area of focus in this role will be working directly with our Regulatory team to understand, keep updated on, and model our regulatory assets / liabilities, rate case outcomes and all related components. A successful candidate will be able to lead the development of interdepartmental consensus on analytical assumptions, methodologies, model selection and procedures in these areas. The Finance Business Manager will lead projects and coordinate activities of other Corporate FP&A team members. Key areas of focus include financial modeling, variance analysis and senior leadership reporting with a focus on the regulatory aspects of PSEs business. Upholds the safety compliance standards inherent in PSEs operating and / or field procedures related to work responsibilities. Promotes and supports a culture of total safety. Demonstrates commitment to conduct business honestly, ethically and consistent with our core values and Code of Conduct. Ensures duties are performed in accordance with all regulatory compliance obligations.

Job Responsibilities :

• Develops comprehensive, complex, custom financial models supporting financial planning, treasury and risk management needs of the organization.
• Exercises judgment in selecting methods, techniques and evaluation criteria.
• Determines procedures and coordinates activities of others to execute.
• Builds reports and analyses data to identify risks and opportunities and make recommendations.
• Continually improves analytical capabilities via internal and external networking and staying current on innovations in financial metrics, techniques.
• Advises on the development of corporate financial strategy and achievement of corporate objectives.
• Directly contributes to the optimization of corporate performance via activities including M&A analysis, mid and long-term financial planning, evaluating credit profile / ratings agency impacts, review of critical accounting and tax issues, enterprise valuation, and the corporate spending authorization process.
• Produces presentations for management, Board of Directors, external investors and rating agencies.
• Leads the delivery of recommendations resulting from quantitative and qualitative analyses.
• Anticipates and identifies areas of opportunity or inherent business risks evident in the data and communicates action plans to stakeholders.
• Provides business performance analysis support to Finance team.
• Develops, implements and reports operational performance metrics.
• Advises and may lead process improvement efforts.
• Promotes use and acceptance of leading practices, benchmarking, etc.
• Company & Industry Acumen - Cross functional partners see this person as the subject matter expert; ability to synthesize complex issues and effectively communicate them to management; pro-actively seeks broader responsibilities and knowledge; possesses the ability to step 'out of the weeds' and see the bigger picture.
• Collaboration - Partners with directors and senior management to drive strategic