Financial Strategy Program Manager

It's fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they are doing! We're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business. GENERAL SUMMARY Under the direction and partnership of the Corporate Finance Vice President develop and oversee the implementation and performance of an agency-wide financial strategy that enables short term and long-term strategic objectives. The agency’s strategic focus is to operate its assets excellently within their useful life, increase our value and support to our members, while we also innovate and ensure business excellence. Our long-term strategic goals require us to deliver additional nuclear generation and increase our delivery of clean energy services requiring capital investment and prudent spending. Excellence in performance ensures we are safe, reliable, predictable, cost effective and performing at the highest levels of industry performance. This position will also lead or perform special cross-agency projects, initiatives, or inquiries focused on implementation of the financial strategy. This is an expert level position requiring leadership, influence, complex problem solving, innovative thinking, and proven sustainable results delivery. PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES Develop, implement, and oversee performance of an agency-wide financial strategy. Understand and align on agency strategy. Understand agency governance, applicable laws, and other constraints. Design, develop, and prioritize a financial strategy with financial goals, tactics, and mitigations. Develop, test, and evaluate scenarios. Challenge existing practices and plans. Work with owners to implement financial strategy actions. Implement key performance and risk indicators demonstrating plan performance and susceptibility to risk. Communicate and influence others. Develop internal and external stakeholder reporting. Build cross-functional teams and drive initiatives or special assignments supporting financial strategy. Develop or provide training around new methodologies and/or processes as needed. Ensuring effective change management and sustainability. Lead a Corporate Finance Transformation Plan with one or more direct reports and CF Management team focused on establishing a scalable, measurable, and continuously improving CF organization with an emphasis on things like automation, integration, upskilling, enabled ownership, determining value, risk management, and advanced analytics. Provide oversight and intrusive challenge of related delivery functions ensuring design and operating effectiveness in supporting the financial strategy. Maintain a focus on excellence, standards, and early signs of degrading standards or changes in environmental circumstances. Benchmark and conduct standards review. Ensure agency investments are determined using prudent prioritization practices, resource evaluations, and risk informed return on capital calculations. Ensure financial management processes and tools are adequate, operating effectively and producing effective short term and long-term results. Coach process and control owners to reinforce excellent practices and behaviors. Coach process and control owners to eliminate ineffective practices and behaviors. Communicate results to CFO and others as requested using varied methods such as reports, presentations, discussions. Other as requested. May be requested to support agency emergency response organization and/or outage activities. REQUIRED EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE Bachelor’s level education with a technical emphasis in accounting, finance, economics, business operations/industrial management, data analytics, or other related technical degree from an accredited college or university. Twenty or more years of progressive finance leadership experience delivering proven strategic results focused on growth, business operational excellence, and sustained financial competitiveness. Implementing proficient and scalable business processes with effective internal controls and measurable results. Implementing state, federal, and other requirements. Building high functioning teams, fostering a collaborative and positive workplace where teams can learn, grow, and contribute. Providing and asking for feedback, service to others, and instilling a culture of continuous improvement. Effectively working across workgroups and with all levels in the organization up to and including the Chief Executive Officer, Executive Boards, and external Stakeholders. Driving results, building alignment, and where needed resolving issues through positive leadership and collaboration with others. This position is open until filled. Pay Range: Salary: $143,226 - $214,838 Midpoint: $179,032 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. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate due to race, color, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, national origin, veteran status or on the basis of disability. EEO is the law, click here to learn more. If you are a CURRENT Energy Northwest employee, DO NOT apply through this page. Internal applicants must apply through the Jobs Hub on Workday. As a regional leader in clean energy generation and public power solutions, Energy Northwest develops, owns and operates a diverse mix of electricity generating resources, including hydro, solar, battery storage and wind projects – and the Northwest’s only nuclear power facility. Energy Northwest is a Washington state joint operating agency comprised of 27 public power member utilities, serving more than 1.5 million customers. The agency continually explores new generation projects and solutions to meet its members’ needs.