Leader Finance & Business Operations (FBO) | T&D

APS is seeking a Leader Finance & Business Operations (FBO) to lead the Finance and Business Operations team supporting T&D. In this Phoenix, AZ onsite role, you turn financial information into actionable business decisions across budgeting, forecasting, performance analysis, and financial support for engineering and asset management teams.

What you’ll do

• Lead and support Finance and Business Operations staff by providing direction and guidance to deliver meaningful financial insights.
• Oversee operating and capital budgets, forecasts, variance analysis, and financial performance measures.
• Partner with engineering and asset management teams to provide financial insight that supports planning and business decisions.
• Translate financial and operational data into clear information that helps leaders understand performance, opportunities, and potential challenges.
• Guide work planning and forecasting efforts to improve visibility into financial performance and future needs.
• Collaborate across the organization to strengthen accountability, operational efficiency, and informed decision-making.
• Supervise Finance and Business Operations staff and collaborate with business units on the utilization of corporate financial and business operations models to evaluate operational and financial scenarios.
• Oversee and direct the development of ad hoc models for unique scenarios or limited-scope analysis, including defining model inputs and processing data through financial and operations models.
• Ensure effective utilization of capital and O&M budgets, current work plans, and long-range forecasts, including analysis for high-impact business issues.
• Identify, recommend, and develop tactical and strategic analysis with Finance and Business Operations leadership and business unit management to reflect impacts of new regulations and market events.
• Oversee financial analyses supporting variance analysis, cash flow analysis, internal rate of return calculations, operating expense reporting, and related financial reporting and analysis.
• Provide direction in compiling relevant data and evaluating and reporting analysis results and processes.
• Lead compilation processes, perform variance analyses, and update business operations models and reporting to support business planning and initiative tracking, including gap analysis, metrics development, tracking, and benchmarking.
• Support cost tracking and reporting for major projects and power plant outages.
• Ensure appropriate risk factors are identified for business units or projects and incorporated into risk analytics within financial and business operations modeling for different scenarios.
• Challenge business unit assumptions and risk variables and recommend alternatives.
• Direct the design, development, compilation, presentation, and communication of financial performance report packages for management reporting, using existing technology and strong knowledge of business unit financial data.
• Ensure financial report packages and communications deliver relevant and impactful messaging.
• Partner with business units in the application and analysis of internal financial models.
• Drive continuous improvement within Finance and Business Operations and incorporate continuous improvement principles and practices into business unit partnerships.
• Select and develop a high-performing team through coaching, performance feedback, recognition, training, and developmental opportunities.
• Manage department programs and plans, ensuring compliance by monitoring and maintaining appropriate documentation, files, records, or systems.
• Maintain current knowledge of primary emerging issues facing the industry and APS-specific business needs.

What you’ll bring

• Bachelor’s degree in business, economics, finance, accounting, or related discipline; MBA or Master’s degree preferred.
• Comprehensive financial, accounting, regulatory, and managerial knowledge.
• Minimum 5 years of progressively responsible business experience with emphasis in business planning, financial planning, modeling and analysis, forecasting, valuation and/or transactional due diligence.
• Leadership experience in a financial or accounting based management position is desirable.
• Demonstrated competency in financial reporting and modeling.
• Significant knowledge of regulatory trend developments in the utility industry, utility operations, and finance.
• Ability to manage a cross-functional team to develop an effective and efficient support system for the business unit.
• Ability to connect detailed trends and results to strategic implications across the organization.
• Effective oral, written, and presentation communication skills; negotiation skills; and strong interpersonal and people management capabilities.
• Travel to local plant locations required.

Compliance and eligibility

• This position may involve access to information subject to Department of Energy Part 810 Regulations, the Export Administration Regulations (EAR), and/or the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR).
• Applicants may be required to confirm whether they are a U.S. person (U.S. Citizen, U.S. Lawful Permanent Resident, Political Asylee, or Refugee) or a non-U.S. person.
• For positions at Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Stations (PVNGS), openings will require applicants to be a U.S. person.
• Pinnacle West Capital Corporation and its subsidiaries and affiliates maintain a continuing policy of nondiscrimination in employment.
• Federal law requires verification of identity and employment eligibility for work in the United States (E-Verify).
• Company policy includes a drug-free workplace environment and may require job-related drug and alcohol testing consistent with regulatory requirements and applicable laws.

Work setup

• Onsite role located in Phoenix, AZ, US.
• Travel to local plant locations required.

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