WGL - Sr. Project Financial Analyst, Utility

Job Description

WGL - Sr. Project Financial Analyst, Utility

Reporting to the Lead, Portfolio Administrative, you will be a key team member in our efforts to mature our Plan, Build, Run delivery model into a highly effective product-oriented operating model. In the paradigm of Plan, Build & Run, while this role supports the "Build" portion of our team, while maintaining close alignment with our Plan and Run teams. The Sr Project Financial Analyst will have experience in coordinating, analyzing, developing, preparing, inputting, and supporting operating (expense) and capital budgets, financial forecasts and cost management activities for the Information Technology (IT) organization.
You will serve as a trusted advisor and financial reporting expert, participating in transitioning the financial aspects of initiatives from our Strategy & Planning functions, through the Build phase, and into stable operations that can be well supported by our Run team. As a key member of our PMO team, you will help us transform our business by advancing a team culture that promotes accountability in our work, empowers team members to realize their full potential, and seeks to shorten the path to value-realization in everything we do.

You will:

• You’ll help our US Utilities businesses transform by leveraging technology to accelerate value delivery across the firm. As a transformational team member, you’ll bring the energy necessary to build culture, develop talent and generate momentum necessary to sustain us on this journey.
• As a visible champion and promoter of our core values, you’ll actively engage with our customers & employees, “rolling your sleeves up” to achieve results.
• You’ll help build & mature our Portfolio Delivery Financial tracking and reporting capabilities that can scale to multiple projects and consolidated portfolio level; this includes helping to identify both the organizational structure and skills necessary to support, as well as maturing the processes and training required to ensure consistent, repeatable outcomes
• You’ll carefully manage monthly financial processes and deliverables for each initiative, ensuring we have consistency in place to deliver successful outcomes
• You’ll be a relentless driver of financial governance and discipline at both the project and portfolio level, ensuring that we are maintaining accurate financial tracking for each initiation, and that we’re effectively tracking and forecasting costs throughout. This includes clearly understanding rules-of-the-road for allocation of CapEx vs. OpEx.
• You will work with Finance to request Work Orders for approved capital projects, maintain and improve project tracking worksheets, supply monthly actuals (overheads, labor, materials, expenses), facilitate UVL processing, conduct accuracy reviews against data sources and ensure monthly reporting at Portfolio and Finance determined levels.
• You’ll partner closely with the Portfolio Delivery Managers for Utilities Operations, Customer Experience, Energy Services and Infrastructure to provide needed project and portfolio financial views
• You will develop ad hoc and/or complex reports of the budget in response to special requests
• You will investigate and recommend and/or implement improvements and/or cost saving ideas related to the budget process.
• You will identify and drive process improvements, including the creation of standard and ad-hoc reports, tools, and dashboards
• You’ll be comfortable presenting executive level communications to Business & Digital leadership on your respective areas of the portfolio/key projects; you’ll be equally as comfortable diving more deeply into the details or a key project with technical & project team staff
• You’ll be comfortable working with resources across complex, multi-vendor/mixed resource environments (employee, contractor, service-provider) and driving accountability necessary to achieve results
• You’ll possess a passion for lifelong learning and develop an environment for professional growth across the team.

You have

• 5+ Years experience working with Digital teams at scale, with specific experience leading in Financial Budgeting, Forecasting, Accruals processing and tracking of Actuals required
• Desire, passion, and energy to help build and drive a transformation mindset across the organization
• Specific experience working with Financial Systems – PeopleSoft and JDE a plus
• Strong fluency with Excel formulas and functions, SharePoint and PowerBI a plus
• Prior experience working with gas or electric utilities preferred; will consider related experience in other industrial domains
• Must be able to effectively interact with and communicate with business partners at every level throughout the organization
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