Financial Analyst job at NRG Energy in Houston, TX

Title: Financial Analyst

Location: Houston, TX, US, 77010

Work Type: Hybrid

Department: Finance

Job Description:

As an NRG employee, we encourage you to take charge of your career and development journey. We invite you to explore exciting opportunities across our businesses. You’ll find that our dynamic work environment provides variety and challenge. Your growth is key to our ongoing success—take the lead in shaping your career development, goals and future!

As a Financial Analyst supporting the Retail business, you will own key forecasting, performance reporting, and financial modeling deliverables used by leaders to make day-to-day and strategic decisions. You will lead monthly reporting and variance analysis, translate financial and operational data into clear insights and recommendations, and partner with cross-functional teams to improve data quality, reporting processes, and business outcomes. This role is ideal for an analyst who is comfortable working with large datasets, building models, and communicating findings to a range of stakeholders.

Essential Duties/Responsibilities:

Develop and maintain complex financial models that forecast detailed profit and loss, cash flows, and balance sheets

Work closely with the Retail teams to determine appropriate modeling assumptions and ensure they are reasonable and accurate

Prepare monthly & annual presentations for Retail leadership including creating and/or updating graphs and charts for financial and non-financial data

Gather, analyze, prepare, and summarize recommendations for financial plans, acquisition activity, future requirements, operating forecasts, etc.

Prepares monthly variance analyses

Assist in the development of standardized reporting of key performance indicators that will be reported in monthly scorecards

Foster relationships with various departments within NRG while continually seeking opportunities to improve processes

Partner with various departments to resolve technical issues affecting financial analyses

Monitors effectiveness of business processes, conducts analysis, makes recommendations, and coordinates implementation for system and process improvements

Participate in and complete special projects as assigned by management

Minimum Requirements:

Bachelor’s degree in business, finance or accounting from an accredited college or university

Expertise in ERP systems (Oracle, SAP), Microsoft Office Suite (e.g. advanced Excel) and other financial reporting tools

Preferred Qualifications:

2-5 years of finance experience within the energy industry or a shared services model

Proficiency in SQL for data extraction and reporting

Skills/Competencies:

Works independently using initiative and self-motivation

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Excels in quickly conceptualizing data to make decisions to take appropriate action

Good written skills to document processes, policies and procedures

Ability to work effectively in a team-oriented environment

Proficient in communicating to a wide range of audiences in both written and oral form

Comfortably handles risk and uncertainty

Working Conditions:

Hybrid work schedule; (4 days a week onsite/1 day remote)

Open office environment

Standard business hours; however additional flexibility is expected during key forecasting and reporting cycles to meet business deadlines

Limited travel if any