Job Description

As a member of the Long Term Financial Forecast team, the position is responsible for the preparation, maintenance, and analysis of the long-term financial forecasts used for regulatory and strategic purposes (including impacts on Board stipulated financial goals and member rates). This entails full financial modeling of Income Statement, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow that is summarized for presentations to Staff, Management, Senior Management and the Tri-State Board of Directors. This position will work closely with Tri-State’s Resource Planning, Accounting, Corporate Finance, and Senior Management to perform scenario analysis to support strategic decision making.

Note

There is one position available and the position will be filled at one of three job grade levels: Financial Analyst I, job grade 7; Financial Analyst II, job grade 8; or Financial Analyst III, job grade 9. This decision will be based on the qualifications and experience of the candidate selected, and Tri-State business needs at the time of hire.

Tri-State recognizes the value of a highly-engaged and committed workforce and provides an excellent benefits program that includes:

Medical Insurance, Dental Insurance, Vision Insurance, Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA), Tuition Reimbursement, Flexible Work Schedules including compressed work week and telecommuting opportunities to work remotely up to 40%, Life Insurance, 401K, Long Term Disability (LTD), Short Term Disability (STD), Employee Assistant Program (EAP) and Paid Leave Benefits.

Financial Analyst III

Hiring Salary Range: $96,000-$121,000

Financial Analyst II

Hiring Salary Range: $86,000-$108,000

Financial Analyst I

Hiring Salary Range: $77,000-$96,000

Actual compensation offer to candidate may vary outside of the posted hiring salary range based upon work experience, education, and/or skill level.

Responsibilities

- Foster a transparent and communicative teamwork environment.

- Prepare, maintain and analyze annual revisions of the base long-term financial forecast utilizing Utilities International UIPlanner financial planning model and partnering with other departments for assumptions and inputs.

- Responsible for assuring accuracy, adequacy and timely completion of long-term financial forecasts, reports, and other analysis.

- Maintain, support, and continuously improve the software model using complex logic and formulas to provide accurate and dependable results.

- Prepare and analyze long-term financial forecast scenarios, and provide data, in support of our Electric Resource Plan, lender and rating agency requests, management and senior management strategic initiatives, Board requests and other areas as required.

- Maintain detailed records, assumptions and source documents in support of all long-term financial forecasts.

- Maintain and create general model procedures and detailed documentation on scenario development process for each forecast created.

- The ability to troubleshoot and solve problems.

- Prepare presentations and reports that effectively display themes and trends for staff, management, senior management and members of the Board of Directors.

- Act as a trusted financial partner for the business providing dependable information to enable informed decision making.

- Enhance the model, analysis, reporting, and presentations to meet the dynamic needs of the business.

- Assist in the review of the annual Operations and Maintenance and Capital budgets.

- Assist with representing Tri-State, as requested, on various committees regarding financial forecasting and other areas.

- Prepare reports and complete special projects as assigned.

- Adhere to company policies, programs and procedures as well as Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP), Western Electricity Coordinating Council (WECC), Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), and Midwest Reliability Organization (MRO) standards and Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) laws and regulations.

- Because Tri-State is an electric utility with continuous service obligations to its customers, regular, reliable, and predictable performance of the essential functions and responsibilities is an essential function of the job.

- Because Tri-State has an obligation to provide continuous, reliable electric service to its customers, the ability to work overtime at any time of the day or week is considered an essential function of the job.

Other Duties/Responsibilities

- Perform other related duties as assigned.

Success Factors/Job Competencies

- Dynamic: Provide creative solutions and strategic tools to help the department and Tri-State succeed.

- Integrity: Ability to maintain the quality of the financial forecasting process and model to provide accurate and dependable results.

- Accountability: Ability to successfully plan, implement objectives, and deliver accurate results within established timelines and work schedules.

- Continuous Improvement: Ability to provide creative solutions, identify and execute improvements to established procedures/systems, plan within timelines and available resources; develop scopes, plan and schedule work; set priorities and goals; anticipate and adjust for problems; evaluate workloads; measure and evaluate performance against established goals.

- Communication: Ability to communicate with transparency and integrity in a comprehensive but concise manner both within the team and within the Tri-State organization.

- Technical skills in analyzing complex data, modeling and financial forecasting including querying data, embedded “IF” formulas, and financial calculations.

- Understanding of FERC accounting standards and reporting.

- Understanding of FERC rate setting and formulary rate calculations preferred.

- Experience with both operations and capital forecasting.

- Foster a transparent and communicative teamwork environment.

- Commitment to company values.

- Exercise effective discretion and judgment.

- Relationship building: Ability to develop and maintain working relationships across the organization to gain an understanding of the various systems and functional area data that comprises the long-term financial forecast and to ensure data collection in a timely manner.

- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

- Ability to work independently, but as part of a team, with minimal direction as a highly motivated self-starter.

Qualifications

Education and Training

- Degree in finance, accounting, economics, engineering or related discipline; or equivalent relevant experience.

Knowledge, Skills, And Ability

- Thorough understanding of financial statements and their interrelated nature.

- Experience with financial forecast modeling.

- Excellent oral and written communications skills.

- Ability to analyze complex, technical data and prepare concise, accurate reports and presentations.

- Must be organized and possess exceptional attention to detail and analysis skills yet understand and articulate the big picture.

- Ability to plan and carry out work independently, setting priorities and meeting deadlines.

- Advanced computer proficiency in Microsoft Office suite.

Other

- Willingness to travel as needed.

- Flexibility to work overtime if and as required.

- Must be able to demonstrate that they can perform all the essential functions of the position.

Desired Job Qualifications

- Utilities industry knowledge highly desired.

- Knowledge of Tri-States generation and transmission systems desired.

- Knowledge of Utilities International UIPlanner financial planning model desired.

About Us

Tri-State is a wholesale power supply cooperative, operating on a not-for-profit basis, with 43 members, including 40 utility electric distribution cooperative and public power district members in four states: Colorado, Nebraska, New Mexico and Wyoming. Together with its members, Tri-State delivers reliable, affordable and responsible power and energy services to more than a million electricity consumers across nearly 200,000 square miles of the West.

Tri-State was founded in 1952 by its member systems to provide a reliable, cost-based supply of electricity. Headquartered in Westminster, Colo., approximately 1,200 people are employed by Tri-State across five states.

Tri-State's electricity is generated from coal, natural gas and hydropower, with a rapidly increasing supply generated from wind and solar. Tri-State delivers power to its members through a transmission system that includes substation facilities, telecommunications sites and over 5,700 miles of high voltage transmission lines. Tri-State's transformative Responsible Energy Plan is reducing emissions, increasing renewable resources, developing new energy services and delivering more flexibility for its members.

Job Identification:

469

Job Category:

Finance and Accounting

Posting Date: 2025-09-08T13:00:00+00:00

Job Schedule:

Full time

Hiring Salary Range:

$77,000-121,000

Locations:

1100 W 116th Ave, Westminster, CO, 80234, US

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status.