Director Finance Business Partner Gas COO
About The Position
As Director, Finance Business Partnering - NY Gas Operations, you will lead financial partnership for NY Gas by translating operational plans into credible budgets, forecasts, performance insights, and executive decisions. You will lead OPEX and CAPEX planning, QRF forecasting, workplan and headcount analysis, rate case and cost recovery support, efficiency validation, and financial performance reviews while coaching a team to deliver clear analysis, strong controls, and proactive problem solving. Role Snapshot Core Purpose: Connect NY Gas workplans, resources, OPEX, CAPEX, regulatory commitments, and performance results into clear financial decisions. Primary stakeholders: NY Gas leadership, NY CFO and Finance leadership, Regulatory, Engineering, Operations, Capital Delivery, Planning, and FP&A. Leadership scope: Lead and develop Finance Business Partners with clear standards for analysis, controls, stakeholder support, and problem solving. Success looks like: Supportable plans, early visibility to risks and opportunities, validated efficiencies, and leadership discussions that result in decisions.
Requirements
- Commercially curious
- Connects operational activity to financial outcomes.
- Clear communicator
- Explains drivers, impacts, risks, decisions, and next steps clearly.
- Constructive challenger
- Pushes for supportable assumptions, clear ownership, and credible explanations.
- Control minded
- Creates discipline around reconciliations, assumptions, documentation, and output quality.
- People developer
- Coaches the team to think critically, communicate clearly, and solve problems.
- Action oriented
- Moves issues to decisions with clear options, owners, deadlines, and follow-up.
Responsibilities
- Advise NY Gas leaders on budget, forecast, workplan, headcount, capital, regulatory, and cost recovery decisions.
- Translate operational issues into financial impacts, risks, options, and recommended next steps.
- Challenge assumptions, validate narratives, and explain the “so what” behind financial results.
- Prepare concise materials for budget reviews, ORM/BRM discussions, QRF updates, capital reviews, and CFO/COO meetings.
- Lead NY Gas budgeting, QRF forecasting, SBP inputs, and monthly OPEX/CAPEX performance reviews.
- Review workplan units, headcount, labor, contractor spend, burdens, transportation, and rate impacts.
- Analyze monthly workplan unit delivery costs against planned costs and explain key variances.
- Reconcile financial submissions to operational assumptions so budget asks and variances are supportable.
- Drive commentary that quantifies drivers, identifies risks and opportunities, and assigns follow-up actions.
- Lead and develop Finance Business Partners with clear standards for analysis, controls, stakeholder support, and problem solving.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
Education Level
No Education Listed
