Operations Business Analyst

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Job Summary:

Responsible for supporting plant financial operations by developing and monitoring budgets, forecasts, and cost reports, while ensuring compliance with safety, environmental, and regulatory standards. Collaborates with cross-functional teams to provide financial insights, manage assets, and drive continuous improvement in business planning and performance.

 

Essential Duties/Responsibilities:

Includes, but is not limited to the following:

• Supports and emphasizes the importance of safety and environmental programs and ensures regulatory compliance.
• Develops and executes plans to accomplish development, regular updating, and monitoring of the Plant budget and cost forecasts.
• Works closely with Engineers and Outage Managers on Project cost tracking.
• Provides appropriate information, recommendations, and guidance to department personnel to obtain the necessary input to support the budget development and monitoring process.
• Creates documents, including reports, memos, graphs, charts, tables, etc
• Coordinates monthly variance analysis, reviews results, reconciles actual costs with budget/forecasts, summarizes variance explanations/forecasts, and distributes the information as appropriate.
• Prepares journal corrections and coordinates monthly and year-end accruals.
• Prepares special cost/budget reports and analyses with minimal direction at the request of department management.
• Understands business processes and their financial implication/impact to the Plant and Company
• Generates and submits budget exception reports when necessary.
• Ensures all Company resources are utilized in a cost-effective manner, estimates resource requirements, monitors expenditures, and reports on performance of assigned area
• Coordinates with Corporate Accounting on the creation of new assets and retirement of old assets
• Works with Business Manager with the development and updating of the Plant Business Plan
• Works with Corporate Accounting on taxation reviews
• Demonstrates employee involvement, innovative thinking, adaptation to change, responsible risk taking, customer focus, and continuous improvement.
• Ensures development and implementation of assigned area goals, objectives and initiatives
• Promotes productivity and teamwork with open communication, timely decision making, and use of personal leadership skills to set high standards of performance.
• Recognizes problems and is proactive in resolution.

 

Working Conditions:

• Normal office environment and/or power plant environment
• Work overtime and non-standard working hours as required.
• Requires occasional travel outside the service area.
• Requires wearing personal protective safety equipment (respirators, safety glasses, hard hat, appropriate footwear, ear plugs, gloves etc.) in designated areas.
• Requires standing, sitting, walking, kneeling, twisting, and climbing stairs.
• Requires operation of a personal computer.
• Occasionally requires lifting as appropriate to perform duties and responsibilities.

 

Minimum Requirements:

• Minimum of Baccalaureate degree in, Accounting, Business or related technical discipline from an accredited college or university and 2 years of equivalent experience in a related field OR a 2-year degree and 4 years equivalent experience in related field OR 6 Years equivalent experience in a related field.

 

Additional Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Basic understanding of the processes, systems, assets, resources, key personnel, and business functions of the facility.
• Knowledge of power plant systems and operation.
• Comprehensive knowledge of areas of responsibility.