Leader Finance & Business (FBO) Operations

APS • Phoenix, AZ

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

This role leads the financial and operational backbone of a business unit at APS, helping teams make smart, informed decisions about how resources are used. By guiding budgets, forecasting future needs, and tracking performance, this leader ensures the organization operates efficiently and responsibly. Their work supports reliable service, strengthens financial health, and ultimately helps APS continue delivering power to communities while investing wisely in the future.

Requirements

• Experience leading finance or business operations teams, with a focus on budgeting, forecasting, and performance analysis
• Strong ability to translate financial data into clear insights that support strategic decisions
• Collaborative mindset with the ability to work effectively across teams, including technical and operational groups
• Leadership skills that foster accountability, development, and high-quality outcomes
• A focus on continuous improvement, with an eye toward efficiency and operational excellence
• Bachelors degree in business, economics, finance, accounting or related discipline.
• Requires comprehensive financial, accounting, regulatory, and managerial knowledge
• PLUS 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.
• 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 plant locations required including overnight trips.

Nice To Haves

• MBA or Masters degree preferred.
• Leadership experience in a financial or accounting based management position desirable.

Responsibilities

• Guide and support a team responsible for financial planning, analysis, and business operations activities
• Partner with engineering and asset management teams to align financial plans with operational priorities
• Oversee budgeting and forecasting processes, ensuring plans reflect both current needs and future goals
• Analyze financial performance, identify trends, and provide insights that drive better decision-making
• Collaborate with business leaders to improve efficiency, accountability, and overall operational effectiveness
• 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.

Benefits

• EEO is the Law poster.
• E-Verify poster.
• employee rights and responsibilities under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA).
• Drug Free Workplace Act of 1988

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager