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Job Category: Accounting / Finance

Job Level: Manager/Principal

Business Unit: Finance

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland

Department Overview

PG&E's Business Finance & Planning team provides critical financial support to its operational Business Partners within the company. This support includes financial analysis; budgeting, planning and forecasting; monitoring, controlling and accounting; operational performance reporting and analysis; and strategic planning and analysis. These services are critical to achieving the company's strategic, operational, and financial objectives.

The Business Finance & Planning department provides a place for energized and talented employees to launch their career, make a meaningful contribution, and be recognized for high performance. As a Manager within the Business Finance & Planning department, you can expect to engage in, and lead, across a variety of challenging and meaningful work streams, including:

• Advising partners on financial implications of operational and regulatory strategies
• Leading a high-potential team to achieve company goals and meet individual development objectives.
• Developing, communicating, and implementing processes and tools that drive budget accountability and financial insight, and
• Analyzing and streamlining internal processes to increase team efficiency and drive engagement.

Position Summary

The Finance Operations Manager will be responsible for leading a team whose function is to respond to system and cost model questions or requests from the Finance and Risk organization. They will also be responsible for driving simplification, training, and initiating process improvements related to those questions/requests. In addition, the team will be responsible for ensuring the month-end close process is run efficiently and on-time, along with setting and monitoring overhead rates.

The successful candidate will create beneficial relationships with our business partners to ensure that roles/responsibilities are being adhered to with a continual focus on process improvements for all groups involved.

This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and Oakland, CA approximately once per week or more, depending on business need.

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. This job is also eligible to participate in PG&E's discretionary incentive compensation programs.Although we estimate the successful candidate hired into this role will be placed towards the middle or entry point of the range, the decision will be made on a case-by-case basis related to these factors.

A reasonable salary range is:

Bay Area Minimum: $136,000.00
Bay Area Maximum: $232,000.00

Job Responsibilities

• Collaborates with leaders, other LOBs, and business partners to work on issues, projects, or activities.
• Supports relationships with Finance and external partners.
• Develop standards and procedures in relation to common questions or requests.
• Creates content for, and trains, business partners as necessary.
• Develop repeatable oversight controls to continuously govern the established standards and procedures.
• Builds, develops, engages, and manages a team which could range from Associates to Principals.
• Coaches team members and provides timely and constructive feedback on individual performance including employee goals, development plans, etc.

Qualifications

Minimum:

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or business, or similar analytical field
• Minimum of two years leading and developing teams
• Minimum of five years in financial planning, analysis, forecasting, and budgeting

Desired:

• Experience in strategic planning, or other related area
• Experience in data analysis
• Well-versed in the Cost Model
• Process Improvement certification
• Experience in SAP, or other related system, including system implementations or testing
• Competency in developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences
• Competency in operating effectively, even when things are not certain or the way forward is not clear
• Competency in building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives
• Competency in relating openly and comfortably with diverse groups of people
• Competency in applying knowledge of business to advance the organizations goals
• Competency in taking on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm
• Competency in making sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems
• Competency in interpreting and applying understanding of key financial indicators to make better business decisions