NRG Energy

FP&A Manager

NRG Energy • $95K — $115K *
Lehi, UT 84043In-Person
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field
  • 5 years of financial analysis experience, ideally with personnel budgeting
  • 2 years of managerial experience
  • Strong ethical standards and confidentiality
  • Experience with SAP and Hyperion Planning software
  • Advanced Excel skills including xlookup, power pivot, and sumifs functions

Responsibilities

  • Review and coordinate Business Operating Expense (OPEX) budgets and forecasts
  • Manage labor expenses in budgets and reporting
  • Oversee monthly headcount and position reporting
  • Coordinate non-labor budget inputs into financial systems
  • Develop monthly actuals and forecast variance analyses
  • Prepare routine and ad hoc reports for senior leadership
  • Continuously improve reporting and analysis for business growth
  • Challenge existing financial and operational processes

Benefits

  • Hybrid work schedule with remote and in-office days
  • Open office environment
  • Opportunities for overtime during critical projects
  • Support for using AI tools for interview preparation
Full Job Description
JOB SUMMARY:

This role will be responsible for managing the financial and business-related analyses in support of the Channel Partners Business. Working closely with the business and FP&A teams, this position will be responsible for monthly and quarterly variance analysis, and coordination and review of annual budget and long-term plans as well as the monthly/quarterly forecasts. In addition, this position will be responsible for the overall support for the Workforce Planning cube, working closely with the business team as well as Talent to ensure accurate and timely labor forecasting/budgeting.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:
  • Reviewing and coordinating all aspects of the Business Operating Expense (OPEX) budgets, forecasts, and cost analyses; supporting reporting needs and ad hoc requests
  • Coordination and management of all labor expenses into budgets, forecasts and reporting analysis
  • Management of hierarchy reports for monthly headcount and position reporting
  • Coordination of non-labor forecast and budget inputs into Financial Planning and Reporting system
  • Participating in the development of the monthly actuals and forecast variance analyses which are used to complete the monthly forecast package
  • Preparing routine monthly, quarterly, and annual reports and special ad hoc reports for senior leadership and executive management as requested
  • Work to continuously improve existing reporting and analysis to drive insight and assist business growth; partner with the business team to develop reports that provide clarity on financial performance
  • Respectfully challenge the current financial, reporting and operational processes
  • Participate in and complete special projects as assigned by management


WORKING CONDITIONS:
  • Hybrid work schedule; a combination of working remotely from home and 4 days a week in the office
  • Open office environment
  • Some overtime required as special projects arise and during critical issue resolution


MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:
  • Bachelor's degree from an accredited four (4) year college/university with a major in Business, Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related discipline from an accredited college or university
  • Five (5) years of experience in financial analysis, preferably with personnel budgeting experience
  • Two (2) years of managerial experience
  • Possession of strong personal code of ethics, including maintaining confidentiality
  • Experience with SAP and Hyperion Planning software
  • Advanced Excel skills (xlookup, power pivot, and sumifs functions)


PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
  • 7+ years of financial analysis experience; preferably in the sales industry
  • 3+ years of managerial experience
  • 3+ years of SAP and Hyperion Planning software experience
  • Proficient with Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Word
  • Experience with AI tools


ADDITIONAL KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES:
  • Maintain a high level of curiosity - ability and drive to determine why something happened and how we can adjust in the future, not just what happened
  • Ability to work independently and complete responsibilities with little supervision showing initiative and self-motivation, yet work well in a highly matrixed environment of different stakeholders; adapts effectively to new and changing environments
  • Able to work in a fast-paced environment with tight deadlines; handles multiple assignments on a timely basis and completes with a high degree of accuracy
  • Capability to resolve complex finance and accounting issues, strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a keen attention to detail
  • Excels in quickly conceptualizing and assimilating data to derive insight and take appropriate action; ability to step away from detail and see the bigger picture
  • Excellent interpersonal skills as this position requires significant interaction with outside stakeholders; proficient in communicating to a wide range of audiences in both written and oral form; able to build positive relationships, influence, and constructively challenge
  • Proficient at thinking with an operational and industry perspective; ability to link performance to external factors

Official description on file with Talent.

We support the use of AI tools to help you prepare for your interview (e.g., practicing responses, researching the role, or refining your resume). However, during interviews and assessments, we expect responses to reflect your own thinking, experience, and communication. Use of AI to generate or read answers in real time, complete assessments, or misrepresent your qualifications is not permitted and may impact your candidacy.

About NRG Energy

NRG is at the forefront of changing how people think about and use energy. Whether as the largest solar power developer in the country or by giving customers the latest tools to better manage their energy use, NRG is a pioneer in developing smarter energy choices. Our diverse power generating facilities have a capacity of about 52,000 megawatts, capable of supporting almost 42 million homes. Our retail electricity providers — Reliant and Energy Plus — and thermal energy division serve nearly 3 million residential, business, commercial and industrial customers. A Fortune 250 company, NRG supports clean energy resources and technologies critical to our transition to a sustainable, low carbon society. We built the nation's first privately-funded electric vehicle charging infrastructure and continue to create new, clean energy solutions for our customers. In addition to our environmental efforts, we actively contribute to the local communities where NRG employees live and work. Since 2004, our Global Giving program has provided millions of dollars to organizations and charities that have a direct impact on the lives of the people in our communities, including food banks and those that foster self-sufficiency, improve housing and provide supplemental education to people in need. NRG has also organized special responses for victims of extreme catastrophe, such as the Haitian earthquake and the Japanese tsunami in 2010. Employee donations were tripled to maximize the contributions. NRG has won numerous awards for industry leadership and many of its nationwide econrg initiatives, which are targeted toward meeting the challenges of climate change, clean air and natural resources protection.

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Size
6,635 employees
Market Cap
$7.4 billion
Industry
Net Income
$510 million
Founded
1989
5 Year Trend
+24.8%
Revenue
$9 billion
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