Business Finance Analyst, Expert

Pacific Gas And Electric Company•Auburn, CA

4d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Business Finance Analyst, Expert will serve as the primary financial analyst for the Temporary Generation Department within Distribution Operations. You will integrate with the organization to influence and drive cross team collaboration both internal and external to PG&E to improve project forecasting and support execution excellence. You must be a clear and concise communicator with written communication skills, strong analytical and quantitative skills, a background in finance or accounting, poise in working with many levels of staff, strong organizational and planning skills, initiative and enthusiasm, and strong people skills.

Requirements

Bachelor of Arts / Science in accounting, business, finance, or equivalent work experience
Five (5) years of relevant financial analyst experience

Nice To Haves

Strong technical background and skills
Experience with budgeting processes
Demonstrated project management skills
Strong analytical skills, detail oriented and self-directed initiatives
Working knowledge of PowerBI, SAP, Analysis for Office (AO), and/or Tableau
Advanced knowledge of Microsoft office applications: Excel, PowerPoint, Word
Lean Six Sigma, CPA, or MBA

Responsibilities

Provide timely and accurate monthly financial visibility to assess performance, integrate operational performance and initiative-taking financial analytics with the objective of identifying opportunities, risks, and associated catch back plans.
Prepare monthly financial reports, working with business partners to analyze key drivers causing significant variances and assist as needed in developing or actioning catch back plans.
Meet with internal and external business partners to review costs and cost drivers, discuss variances, and provide insights and analyses as a financial subject matter expert.
Lead and facilitate budget discussions that drive efficiencies and clarity around variances and the end of year forecast.
Provide timely, balanced financial forecasts that capture current performance and enable nimble, value optimized operational and financial decisions.
Advise and integrate the business unit financial plans and performance baselines to meet the Company's long-term operational and financial objectives.
Identify, and evaluate key processes for opportunities in effectiveness, control, and efficiency, and recommend and implement improvements.
Proactively monitor costs and coordinate the corrections of cost accounting errors as needed. Manage Orders and corporate hierarchy logic for partners to ensure reporting is accurate and systematically supported.
Provide any ad-hoc SAP assistance to partners.
Review partner cost monitoring systems to ensure that adequate controls are in place to timely uncover and correct erroneous charges.
Actively participate in strategic initiatives related to Business Finance or business partner organizations and complete assigned tasks related to the initiatives.