Leader Finance & Business Operations (FBO) | T&D

APS•Phoenix, AZ

10d•Hybrid

About The Position

As Leader FBO for T&D at APS, you’ll lead a Finance and Business Operations team that helps turn financial information into informed business decisions. By overseeing budgets, forecasts, performance analysis, and financial support for engineering and asset management teams, you’ll help strengthen accountability, operational effectiveness, and responsible investment in the systems that serve APS customers and communities.

Requirements

Bachelors degree in business, economics, finance, accounting or related discipline; MBA or Masters degree preferred.
This position requires comprehensive financial, accounting, regulatory, and managerial knowledge
PLUS a minimum of five (5) years progressively responsible business experience with emphasis in business planning, financial planning, modeling and analysis, forecasting, valuation and/or transactional due diligence.
Leadership experience in a financial or accounting based management position desirable.
Demonstrated competency in financial reporting and modeling.
Possess significant knowledge of regulatory trend developments in the utility industry, utility operations, and finance.
Have the ability to manage a cross functional team that will consist of financial and operational based individuals to develop an effective and efficient support system for the business unit.
Must possess the ability to understand trends and results at both a detailed level and a strategic level, and to inter-relate issues between the two.
Demonstrated effective oral, written and presentation communication skills; negotiation skills; and the highest quality interpersonal and people management skills.
Travel to local plant locations required.
A collaborative leader with experience supervising and guiding finance or business operations professionals.
Strong financial planning and analytical skills, including experience with budgets, forecasting, variance analysis, and performance metrics.
Ability to provide thoughtful financial and operational decision support to business partners.
Strong communication and collaboration skills, particularly when partnering with technical teams such as engineering and asset management.
A strategic thinker who can connect financial performance with operational priorities and business outcomes.
A leader who values accountability, sound decision-making, efficiency, and effective use of resources.

Nice To Haves

MBA or Masters degree preferred.

Responsibilities

Lead and support Finance and Business Operations staff, providing direction and guidance to help the team deliver meaningful financial insights.
Oversee operating and capital budgets, forecasts, variance analysis, and financial performance measures.
Partner with engineering and asset management teams to provide financial insight that supports planning and business decisions.
Translate financial and operational data into clear information that helps leaders understand performance, opportunities, and potential challenges.
Guide work planning and forecasting efforts to improve visibility into financial performance and future needs.
Collaborate across the organization to strengthen accountability, operational efficiency, and informed decision-making.
Supervise Finance and Business Operations staff and collaborate with business units on the utilization of corporate financial and business operations models to evaluate operational and financial business scenarios.
Oversee and direct the development of ad hoc models to support unique scenarios or limited scope analysis, formulation of model inputs and processing of data through financial and operations models.
Work closely with business units to ensure effective utilization of capital and O&M budgets, current work plans and long-range forecasts typically involving high impact business issues.
Collaborate with other Finance and Business Operations leadership and business unit management in identifying, recommending, and developing tactical and strategic analysis to accurately reflect impacts of new regulations and market events on the Company's financial performance.
Oversee financial analyses supporting the development and execution of variance analysis, cash flow analysis, internal rate of return calculations, operating expense and financial results reporting and analysis, and other related financial analyses.
Provide direction in the compilation of relevant data, evaluating and reporting processes of analyses results.
Lead the processes for compilation of relevant data, performing variance analyses, updating business operations models and reporting which supports the execution of business planning and initiative tracking, gap analysis, metrics development, tracking and benchmarking.
Support the cost tracking and reporting of major projects and power plant outages.
Ensure appropriate risk factors are identified for specific business units or projects and incorporate into risk analytics in financial and business operations modeling for different business scenarios.
Challenge business unit assumptions and risk variables and recommend alternatives.
Provide direction in design, development, compilation, presentation and communication of financial performance report packages for management reporting including identification of significant findings and conclusions through the use of existing technology and strong understanding of business unit financial related data.
Ensure financial report packages and communications deliver impactful and relevant messages.
Partner with business units in the application and analysis of internal financial models.
Drive continuous improvement through the Finance and Business Operations organization and incorporate continuous improvement principles and practices into business unit partnerships.
Select and develop a high performing team through effective coaching, performance feedback, recognition, training and developmental opportunities.
Manage department programs and plans. Ensure compliance by monitoring and maintaining the appropriate documentation, files, records or systems.
Maintain current knowledge of the primary emerging issues facing the industry and company business specifics.