Job Responsibilities / Overview 

This position resides in the Project and Financial Controls organization and provides management, guidance and oversight for Analysts who perform financial and operational planning, analysis and reporting support for the Engineering and Construction departments, which includes capital budgeting, forecasting, and reporting, metric tracking, supplier inclusion reporting, replacement cost calculations, file cost updates, rate case support and general business support. 

This position will work closely with the Engineering and Construction department leaders to ensure business objectives are met, prudent and proper financial budget tracking and reporting, review and analyze financial budget trends and variances, provide explanations of variances, develop financial comparisons and forecasts, prepare metrics, ad-hoc reports, data analysis and modeling, dashboard creation and updates, system support services, support regulatory filings, commitments, requests and reporting, etc.

Functional Expertise                                                                                                                 

• Prepare annual New Business capital budget, 10-year plan, and monthly reforecasts, financial reporting, variance analysis, and variance explanations.
• Create monthly financial reports and visual presentation of financial data.
• Assist leadership with interpretation and presentation of data and reports as necessary to identify variances and make business decisions.
• Provide ad-hoc financial reports and analysis; review and analyze trends and variances; provide thorough explanation of variance drivers; prepare executive summaries. 
• Support regulatory filings, commitments, requests, and reporting.
• Support financial system upgrade initiatives.
• Develop, document, and enforce processes and procedures for New Business budgeting and reporting. 
• Manage financial and process analytics for Construction Operations across the Gas Enterprise.
• Support the preparation and review of Construction Operations department O&M budgets. 
• Oversee yearly File Cost calculation, approval, and implementation process for all LDCs.
• Direct the design of effective, user-friendly dashboards to foster data-driven decision-making. 

Business Acumen

• Ability to predict data needs necessary for executive decision-making and identify and deliver process and technology improvements to analytical methods and tools.
• Ensure proper analysis, interpretation, and presentation of financial and process data. 
• Contextualize data and convey complex financial concepts to non-financial stakeholders.
• Prioritize multiple requests from multiple business units to meet established deadlines.

Engagement

• Lead, develop and engage employees to enhance employee, department, and Company performance.
• Collaborate with leaders to determine analytical needs, performance satisfaction and gaps; manage change accordingly and develop new processes as new initiatives are introduced.
• Liaison with the GA PSC for reporting and auditing of Construction project data.
• Review and present analyses to business owners and Executive management.

Driving Results