Senior Financial Analyst

Requisition ID # 160039 

Job Category: Accounting / Finance 

Job Level: Individual Contributor

Business Unit: Finance

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland

Department Overview

Finance’s vision is to build and sustain leading finance capabilities to support PG&E’s vision. The Company FP&A department oversees corporate consolidated forecasting, modeling, reporting, and analysis of financials. It is also involved in many of the Finance and Accounting organization’s ongoing projects, goals, and initiatives. The Senior Financial Analyst will be a part of the Financial Forecasting and Modeling Team within the Company FP&A department.

Position Summary

The Senior Financial Analyst will work closely with the hiring leader, teammates, and other departments to play a key role in maintaining, updating, and continuously improving the Company’s financial forecasting model. You will lead the forecasting, analysis, and reporting of assigned areas as part of the monthly forecasting process and in support of deliverables for the Board of Directors. You will also prepare reports and presentations to be utilized by senior management to make strategic decisions and will support or lead team-wide/organization-wide goals, project, and initiatives. You should excel at learning new financial modeling and reporting tools and communicating effectively with partners cross-functionally. An independent learner who excels at problem solving by using their logic, reasoning, and analytical abilities will thrive in this environment.

The role is hybrid working from your remote office and in-person at the Oakland General Office 1-2x a month or based on business needs or company requirements.

PG&E is providing the salary range that the company in good faith believes it might pay for this position at the time of the job posting. This compensation range is specific to the locality of the job. The actual salary paid to an individual will be based on multiple factors, including, but not limited to, specific skills, education, licenses or certifications, experience, market value, geographic location, and internal equity. Although we estimate the successful candidate hired into this role will be placed between the entry point and the middle of the range, the decision will be made on a case-by-case basis related to these factors.​ This job is also eligible to participate in PG&E’s discretionary incentive compensation programs.

A reasonable salary range is:​

Bay Area Minimum:             $98,000

Bay Area Maximum:            $146,000

Job Responsibilities

• Spearheads maintaining, updating, and continuously improving the UIPlanner financial forecasting model.
• Supports team members on various tasks and handles special projects as assigned.
• Performs quality assurance on data and resolve issues with affected parties.
• Provides decision support to senior management and research needed areas for analysis.
• May manage projects or initiatives.
• Leads efforts on process improvements and root-cause analyses.
• Leads analysis and reporting of assigned areas, including defining process, developing schedules, actual production, and material reviews with responsible leaders.
• Develops and implements guidelines & training, process documentation, and communications strategy.
• Partners with other organizations to ensure that deliverables are complete, timely and accurate.
• Assist, or lead, preparation of presentation materials used in financial decision-making meetings

Qualifications

Minimum:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or job-related discipline or equivalent work experience

• 4 years of accounting, financial, or business-related experience  

Desired:

• Job-related experience, 6 years
• Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills
• Prior experience with SAP
• Prior experience with UIPlanner is a plus (not required)
• Experience building and maintaining financial models
• Basic to advanced understanding of GAAP accounting
• Excellent research and issue resolution skills (including the curiosity and ability to dig in and independently resolve issues)
• Able to present analysis results in a cohesive, understandable, and actionable format to department management
• Ability to prioritize, plan, perform and communicate activities both in written and verbal form
• Effectively copes with change and shifts gears comfortably

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