The Financial Analyst provides financial support to the Shared Services organization; coordinates and supports the Monthly Financial Reports; develops the departments’ financial budgets and five-year financial forecasts; regulatory plans; project analysis; and, development of different reports tools.
Essential Functions:
- Supports the production of the Monthly Financial Report for the Shared Services’ groups.
- Coordinates, develops, supports and monitors the annual budget process to ensure that each major budget management task is properly planned and supported. Ensures compliance with all corporate critical path schedules.
- Reviews, validates and adopts financial model runs.
- Communicates results and their implications to management.
- Assists management in ensures model projections support financial goals includes the development of recommendations to improve performance.
- Communicates results of and any issues with financial strategies includes recommendations for course corrections to management.
- Coordinates and develops financial projections with input from Shared Services’ groups and disciplines from across the company includes financial forecasts, regulatory, corporate and field functional areas and accounts.
- Prepares financial projections for presentation to executive management.
- Provides information to management to ensure annual budgets and five-year forecasts are on target.
- Ensures communication through reports to departmental management on a monthly basis of any specific operates and financial performance information such as budget versus actual and current versus prior year actual comparisons for makes management decisions or evaluation of trends.
- Coordinates with all departmental areas on financial and business reports requirements.
- Works effectively with all levels of management in order to provide financial analysis and problem solves recommendations.
- Supports the development of rate case timelines and strategies as well as rate case proceedings.
Qualifications:
Technical Knowledge/Skill:
Knowledge:
- Knowledge and experience with capital and expense budgeting processes
- Knowledge and experience developing and implementing corporate strategies and initiatives
- Strong knowledge, experience and demonstrated ability in all areas of financial reporting, analyses and financial model management
- Understanding of financial statements and financial modeling
- Thorough understanding of the Eversource organization
Skills:
- Financial acumen including a basic understanding of financial concepts
- Financial modeling capabilities
- Strong detail orientation as well as the ability to be thorough and precise
- Ability to work effectively with various levels within