Senior Financial Planning Analyst

At Algonquin-Liberty, we hire passionate people who care about doing the right thing for our customers. We are entrepreneurial, creative, and outcome-focused. Here, your natural talent and achievements will flourish in an inclusive environment of teamwork, trust and continuous learning. We are always pursuing excellence to exceed our ambitions goals, rewarding both the goal outcome and how we achieve it.

The Senior Financial Analyst III will support budgeting, forecasting and reporting, conduct financial analysis, and provide financial modeling support and scenario analysis. This high-impact, visible role offers an exciting opportunity to engage in enterprise-wide information flow and participate in strategic corporate finance decisions, as well as helping to support reporting and ad hoc analysis for the Regulated Utility Business (Water, Gas, Electric).

The successful candidate will bring an investor’s mindset, be a self-starter, and excel in collaborating with cross-functional partners. Key attributes for success include problem-solving, innovative thinking, and creating effective solutions. The Senior Financial Analyst will manage work streams involving multiple stakeholders, perform complex financial analyses, and build strong relationships across various teams.

Key Projects:

- Contribute to the annual multi-year planning process and monthly forecasting process.

- Developing and maintaining current year and long-term corporate models

- Evaluating the impact of strategic initiatives, investments, various financing structures, and other sensitivity analyses either at the Corporate, Regulated Utility, and/or Functional Department level

Accountabilities

Forecasting, Month/Quarterly Internal Reporting:

- Participate actively in forecasting including monthly forecasts, quarterly updates, providing recommendations for continuous improvement.

- Monitor financial performance, analyze financial data, identify trends and update short and long-term models as needed.

- Understand variances, investigate drivers and present finding in a clear, succinct manner.

- Ensure timely and accurate delivery of financial information to Senior Management for critical business decisions.

Budgeting and Planning:

- Support the annual budget process and periodic budget reviews to ensure alignment with the company’s strategic objectives.

- Support the development, management, and continuous improvement of Algonquin’s eco system of corporate and regulated utility models and decision tools

- Collaborate with Treasury, Tax, Accounting, and business unit FP&A, to align planning assumptions with key stakeholders.

- Assist in preparing presentations for the Board of Directors, Senior Management, and various stakeholders.

Other Responsibilities:

- Develop a strong understanding of the company’s structure and the economics of the utilities business.

- Build and develop corporate and regulated utility financial models and analyses to provide accurate financial pictures

- Create insightful presentations to summarize analyses and facilitate decision-making for leadership.

- Ensure all processes are well-documented with appropriate controls in place.

- Support the implementation of financial systems, processes, and tools that increase efficiency and accuracy of financial planning and analysis.

- Extract relevant data from the planning system (SAP Analytical Cloud) and assist in developing SAC reports and dashboards over time.

- Create clean schedules/tables to present data coherently.