Financial Planning and Analysis Advisor

Engie • Houston, TX

6d • Hybrid

About The Position

At ENGIE North America, we are investing today in the low carbon energy systems of tomorrow. We are committed to accelerating the transition towards a carbon-neutral world and we have set our targets accordingly. Our 2030 goals include building an additional 20 GW of Renewables assets in addition to developing some Power Storage and Green Hydrogen. To achieve these ambitions, we plan to invest over $ 2 billion in growth Capex per year for the next several years. ENGIE expects North America as a key geographic priority to make up a significant share of the Group’s growth capital to be deployed. We are therefore seeking to expand our US-based Financial, Planning & Analysis (FP&A) team with talented Finance professionals. The FP&A team plays a key role in ENGIE’s recognizing its growth ambitions and creating long-term shareholder value. We forecast and provide analysis to our origination, commercial, construction, and operations teams enabling them to maximize the financial performance of all our assets. To develop delivery industry expertise, the FP&A team is aligned specific to business units and, where applicable, specific Portfolios. These scopes include grid scale generation, centralized storage, and decentralized energy and services. The FP&A team is physically located in Houston. FP&A team members enjoy extensive visibility with ENGIE by regularly working with Operations, Asset Management, and Partnership Management teams. FP&A team members regularly interact with ENGIE’s executives including Directors, Vice Presidents, and the C-Suite to construct and deliver insightful analysis to our North American and European Group Leadership teams and to our external partners. The team challenges the business’s assumptions, tracks their financial commitment delivery, and recommends strategic actions to management. This team finds and communicates ENGIE’s opportunities to deliver additional financial performance. We partner with our CEOs and provide financial oversight upon which our Group parent company relies. The team ensures ENGIE communicates high quality financial information that is useful for decision making and is a key liaison with Group management.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree is which you completed courses in finance, accounting, or a related field
• A minimum of 7 years of experience in Finance
• Strong information technology skills
• Microsoft Office Suite, including Advanced Excel proficiency is required
• Strong analytical and hands-on problem-solving skills are required
• Initiative and adaptability with attention to detail are required
• Strong oral and written communication skills are required
• Excellent interpersonal skills are key for cross-functional collaboration and exposure to senior leadership
• Ability to thrive in an agile, fast-paced work environment is required
• Must be willing and able to comply with all ENGIE ethics and safety policies

Nice To Haves

• Knowledge of SAP S4, Analytical Cloud, and Fiori is preferred
• Expertise in financial modeling is preferred
• Data visualization skills

Responsibilities

• Planning: Coordinate the preparation of annual budgets, re-forecasts, and medium-term business plans
• Partner with the GBU Finance Business Partner to presents those financial forecasts to management
• Collaborate with the Partnership Management team to prepare and present partnership financial and operational forecasts to external partners
• Ensure reporting accuracy by partnering with accounting and IT. This includes but is not limited to data mapping and creating new reporting structures
• Analysis: Engage across the organization to maintain a high level of business understanding to develop, validate, and communicate best estimates and early warnings
• Respond quickly and accurately to ad hoc analysis requests from senior Management
• Coordinate financial forecast and analysis deliverables managing delivery against multiple deadlines
• Month-End Reporting: Ensure monthly closing quality by validating the monthly financial. Compare those results to the budget and most recent best estimate and analyze the reasonableness of results based on key performance indicators and market dynamics
• Monitor and validate key financial indicators, including operating margin, OPEX, Capex, net debt, capital employed, and other metrics that ENGIE communicates to its investor community
• Reforecast the income statement and cash flows-based business activities and with the support of operational colleagues
• Collaborate with the Partnership Management team to prepare periodic partnership financial reports that are comparable to the financial forecasts noted above
• Financial Results Analysis Analyze monthly income statement variances versus budget, the most recent reforecast, and prior year, providing analytical commentaries and recommending corrective actions
• Provide operating margin variance analysis via a deep understanding of the drivers of the income statement, including energy volumes, energy prices, hedging activities, and inventory costs consumed.
• Provide cash flow analysis focused on milestones and balance sheet structures driving cash flow from operations and capital expenditures
• Prepare presentations for Executive meetings
• Coordinate ad hoc operational performance and KPI analysis
• Collaborate with operations teams to perform ad hoc analysis on specific topics, such as general and administrative expenses and business efficiency
• Development and Improvement: Contribute to strategic cross-functional projects: Liaise with IT: to develop financial analytical reports to run and maintain our analytical database
• Identify and implement business process improvements to facilitate data flows between financial reporting systems to produce more efficient and relevant outputs and to enhance the control environment

Benefits

• comprehensive benefits package includes options for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, employer-paid short-term and long-term disability insurance, ESPP, generous paid time off including wellness days, holidays and leave programs
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan with a company match
• supplemental benefits for full time employees that enhance emotional and physical well-being through all stages of life from family forming to caregiver benefits

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees