Lead Financial Analyst (Treasury)

Summary

Treasury manages NYPA’s financial resources in order to help meet the NYPA’s business objectives. The Treasury Unit is responsible for the day-to-day cash management, investments and hedging, issues debt to finance capital projects and manages existing debt, and evaluates loan requests. Treasury strategy includes making effective use of cash and other financial instruments, and ensuring enough cash is available for upcoming obligations. Manages a variety of different internal and external risks, including, interest rate risk and operational risk. Other areas of focus include the effective use of technology, as well as keeping up to date with regulatory requirements and ensuring compliance.

The Lead Financial Analyst (Treasury/Investment) conducts NYPA’s financial and accounting operations.  Prepares, collects, and interprets financial information.  Prepares budgets, reports, forecasts, and statutory returns.  Conducts financial analyses of proposals, investments, and fund sources.  Manages the organization's taxation affairs, manages cost accounting systems and cash flow. Controls treasury and ensures compliance with regulatory standards. This job family also includes jobs responsible for accounting administration activities such as accounts payable, accounts receivable, credit, collections, billing, and invoicing.

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Responsibilities

• Design and maintain automated financial tools and systems that ensure quality information and reports are delivered to senior management on a timely basis. 
• Identify emerging needs and implement additional reports to present data in a concise and useful fashion.  Design and implement financial models and modeling changes to quantify the potential impacts of industry changes and changes in NYPA’s overall business, including net income forecasts, cash flow forecasts, and relevant financial metrics.  Test calculations and ensure accuracy of the models.  Identify, recommend, and implement opportunities to streamline processes or improve computer model systems.
• Perform cost/benefit and life-cycle economic analyses of NYPA’s various facilities and programs, and any other special assignments/analyses as directed by senior management.
• Interpret results from various analysis and communicate actionable recommendations to senior management, either verbally or in writing, about the preferred way to proceed along with alternative scenarios.  Identify key strategic considerations and present these to senior management, such that high-level, actionable information is communicated.
• Represent the Finance department throughout the organization as a trusted business partner, bringing value added financial acumen to cross functional groups and projects.
• Lead junior team members in completion of special assignments and analyses as assigned by management.  Represent the Financial Analysis team in meeting with NYPA staff and external stakeholders.  Stand in for the Manager of Financial Analysis as required.
• Lead staff person responsible for coordinating information flows between Financial Analysis and other NYPA groups and departments.
• Lead staff person responsible for internal coordinating activities and actions needed to ensure the accurate and timely completion of deliverables.
• Assist Manager in coordinating work assignments and selecting appropriate technical applications to be applied to economic and/or financial problems and models.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Proficient knowledge of economics, finance, and accounting.  Proficiency with the electric utility industry and NYISO market strongly preferred.
• Working knowledge of one or more of the following areas required: oil & gas markets, hedging structures and instruments, NYISO markets, Public Service Commission and FERC policy and process, and financial and bond markets.
• Excellent analytical skills required, including statistical and quantitative analysis and the use of spreadsheets and databases to analyze past and forecast future financial trends.  Ability to analyze financial, marketing and operational data; and based on this analysis identify key strategic considerations and recommend solutions to senior management.
• Ability to solve problems, manage implementations, co-lead teams, coordinate periodic activities and meet project deadlines. 
• Proven ability to organize data, report on studies in a logical and effective manner, and a demonstrated ability to adapt to rapidly changing environments.
• Expert proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint and other computer applications and file organization procedures is required.
• Demonstrated ability to use Pivot Tables, Tables and Database formulas within MS Excel at expert level.
• Advanced knowledge of MS Access, SAP BI, NYISO DSS, and/or Tableau is pre