Senior Financial Analyst

Senior Financial Analyst

Provides advanced financial forecasting, debt analysis, and scenario modeling that integrate O&M, capital, and revenues into comprehensive enterprise forecasts. This role serves as a bridge between transactional reporting and enterprise decision support, enabling leadership to evaluate risks, opportunities, and long term financial impacts. Executes and manages analytical and modeling efforts, collaborating across departments to provide high quality, innovative resources consulting to leadership throughout the organization. This position also engages with employees, customers, stakeholders, and the PUD Commission to understand and balance long term resources interests.

Essential duties and responsibilities may include, but are not limited to, the following :

• Coordinate Utility activities in the areas of planning, analyzing, and executing Utility debt, provides clear and concise economic analysis support across Utility projects and initiatives allowing decision making for future capital funding plans.
• Knowledge and ability to model public and private use provisions of debt and understand impacts from business operation decisions; familiar with various debt structuring options; management of Utility debt portfolio, which includes variable and fixed rate debt, and internal financing options. Works closely with Treasury Operations Manager on direction of financing activities.
• Refines and administers the Grant PUD's cash flow and budget collaboration process; provides cohesion and problem solving for cash flow and debt analysis processes; coordinates with groups in Grant PUD to update cash flow.
• Manage large portfolios of debt and transactional volume requiring comprehensive knowledge of treasury accounting and related systems; engage with Utility decision makers and provide analysis of financial state. Support Treasury with debt amortization and issuance analysis integrated into forecasts.
• Solves financial forecast for outcomes on specific variables, run scenarios on multiple model inputs and analyze options to most efficiently achieve Grant PUD metric targets.
• Forecasts key metrics for Senior Management ensuring they can see the effects of their decisions; understands impact of work as management relies on output to drive strategy and decisions; coordinates with all Grant PUD initiative and process owners that control the metrics being measured to ensure accurate analysis and forecasting; builds and consistently updates monthly forecasting and budget to actuals, incorporates intra-year updates to enable more accurate year-end financial analysis and decision making for Senior Management.
• Extensively researches and builds reliable distributions around as many financial forecast variables as possible; operates stochastic forecasting through the financial forecast to deliver probabilistic forecasts for Senior Management; provides a definitive and powerful analysis and business planning tool to account for risks and opportunities within the model.
• Provide mentorship and coaching to junior analysts by reviewing their work, offering constructive feedback, and sharing best practices, while also leading and contributing to continuous process improvements that enhance forecasting accuracy, efficiency, and overall team effectiveness; additionally, play an active role in strengthening organizational financial literacy by helping colleagues and business units better understand financial results, drivers, and implications for decision-making.
• In this position, if needed to operate a GPUD vehicle for business purposes, please refer to the Vehicle / Asset Usage Policy, IS-TA-POL-001.
• Demonstrated commitment to Grant PUD's mission, vision, values, strategic plan, and Grant PUD / IBEW Local 77 Code of Excellence. The incumbent should be familiar with these organizational priorities and behave in a way that aligns with these expectations.
• Understand and adhere to compliance requirements for this position that may include laws, regulations, security guidelines, Grant PUD policies & procedures.
• Actively participate in all aspects of our safety program, including but not limited to : following all safety policies and procedures; alerting supervisors and coworkers to unsafe or hazardous working conditions; reporting any safety incidents or close calls within 24 hours to your supervisor; and accepting feedback from supervisors and coworkers regarding your own safety performance.

Required Qualifications : (Education and Experience, License, and / or Certification)

Preferred Qualifications : (Education and Experience, License, and / or Certification)

Other knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Physical Requirements

For a full list of requirements, the applicant / incumbent should refer to the Physical Capacity Evaluation (PCE).