Business, Financial Planning, and Risk Analyst II/I

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GENERAL SUMMARY Provide strategic planning and enterprise risk management support to the agency.
Position includes working across all business units to evaluate and integrate strategy and effective risk management into key processes and activities.
Position will also assist, support and participate in special projects/initiatives/activities within the Corporate Finance organization as identified by management.
Under direction of department management, work with and support the agency-wide Enterprise Risk Management program to leverage risk management, assessments, and corporate audit activities.
Establish, communicate, and facilitate the use of appropriate risk & control methodologies, tools and techniques.
Collect, evaluate, and maintain data related to risks across the agency including strategic enterprise risks, process, project, operational, emerging and agency decision level risks.
Work with Energy Northwest (EN) business units to establish, maintain and continuously improve risk management capabilities, develop risk registers, and compile data.
Conduct assessments and audits as planned or requested and subsequently generate and present assessment/audit summaries and reports, monitor and follow-up as appropriate.
Assist in implementing process, program and performance improvements, and internal controls.
Monitor effectiveness of the program.
Ensure continuous improvement and alignment with the industry and/or discipline standards.
Provide business planning and risk support to designated management groups for a broad range of financial and business issues with a moderate level of independence.
Respond to budgetary and financial challenges while being proactive to addressing business needs.
Analyst role is responsible for collecting and analyzing data, such as sales or cost numbers, conducting market or industry research, and helping the agency make the right decisions from a financial and risk perspective by applying risk assessment principles.
PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABIITIES Perform the following financial business planning and risk functions: • Budget development and budget change management and senior management financial reporting.
• Organizational cost performance vs.
budget variances and cost trends and analysis • Coordinate, monitor project schedule/scope/cost changes to project managers and plant management • Support the Columbia Station (CGS) Long-range Plan (LRP) used to determine Capital and Expense projects that populate the LRP in accordance with procedure requirements.
• Assist or perform project coordination activities as required to support development and ongoing maintenance of the annual project lists.
Leverage existing solutions to ensure activities are efficient, complete, and accurate.
• Risk assessment development and monitoring of key risk activities • Understanding of Change Management process • Intrapersonal/Interpersonal proactive collaboration within department and external customers • Collect, evaluate, and maintain data and analytic tools related to financial data across the agency • Work within the organization to establish, maintain and continuously improve data analytics capabilities • Work with executives and other business leaders to identify opportunities for improvement • Create reports for internal teams and/or external clients • Collaborate with team members to collect and analyze data • Use graphs, infographics and other methods to visualize data • Establish KPIs to measure the effectiveness of business decisions • Structure large data sets to find usable information • Work with a team of analysts and other associates to process information • Create presentations and reports based on recommendations and findings Perform special assignments using knowledge gained through experience and education.
Conduct benchmarking studies for business-related issues.
Must participate on the Emergency Response team (ERO) when designated.
Must support the biennial refueling outage.
REQUIRED EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE Level II: Requires a Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university and 6 years of industrial level experience working with financial/accounting/budgeting/risk position, preferably within a large company or profit center, OR an AA degree and 8 years of industrial level experience working with financial/accounting/budgeting/risk position, preferably within a large company or profit center, OR a High school diploma or GED and 10 years of industrial level experience working with financial/accounting/budgeting/risk position, preferably within a large company or profit center.
A Master’s degree in Business Administration or Finance from an accredited college or university can be substituted for two years of experience.
Level I: Requires a Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university and 3 years of industrial level experience working with financial/accounting/budgeting/risk position, preferably within a large company or profit center, OR an AA degree and 5 years of industrial level experience working with financial/accounting/budgeting/risk position, preferably within a large company or profit center, OR a high school diploma or GED and 7 years of industrial level experience working with financial/accounting/budgeting/risk position, preferably within a large company or profit center.
A Master’s degree in Business Administration or Finance from an accredited college or university can be substituted for two years of experience.
Pay Range: Level II Salary: $81,862 - $122,792 $102,327 midpoint Level I Salary: $71,230 - $106,846 $89,038 midpoint Typically, selected candidates are hired between the minimum and midpoint of the range, based on applicable experience and qualifications, market rate, internal equity, and budgetary allowances.
Offers will be negotiated based on each candidate's qualifications.
Incentive Compensation This role is eligible to participate in our annual incentive plan.
Incentives are earned based on employee performance against defined metrics and company goals.
Benefits Energy Northwest (EN) offers a highly competitive and substantial benefits package which allows qualifying employees (and their families) to enroll in medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance.
Other voluntary benefits may include flexible spending accounts, tuition reimbursement, supplemental life insurances, credit monitoring, and identity theft insurance.
EN offers three retirement programs to qualifying employees including a matching 401(k) deferred compensation plan, the Washington State Pension Plan (PERS), and a 457(b) savings plan.
Qualifying employees will also accrue 160 hours of personal time per year and nine paid holidays throughout the calendar year.
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