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Work Place Flexibility: Hybrid 

Legal Entity: Entergy Services, Inc.-ESI (OLD) 

1. 1. This position may be filled as a Financial Analyst I, II, III, or Lead depending on the experience and qualifications of the candidate.

Job Summary/Purpose:

This position will provide support for Entergy’s regulated and unregulated business units by assuring Entergy is liquid through financings and/or cash management and in various financial analyses.

Job Duties/Responsibilities:

In supporting the various Entergy Business Units, the candidate will perform Corporate Finance tasks including: 

• Raising external funds necessary to support the business
  • Managing large teams to negotiate, document, and issue debt and equity securities
  • Managing “at the market” equity and stock buyback programs
  • Managing Entergy’s commercial paper program
  • Negotiate and maintain letter of credit programs
• Marketing Entergy to, and maintaining strong relationships with, banks
  • Developing and maintaining bank relations
  • Negotiating bank facilities
• Assuring regulatory approvals are in place that allow financing
  • Responding to regulatory information requests
  • Tracking and supporting timely requests for financing authorizations
• Overseeing compliance with debt covenants
  • Tracking debt compliance responsibilities
  • Maintain quality records related to work
• Supporting rating agency relations
  • Promote Entergy’s success and strategies to the agencies; lobby to secure the best ratings
• Supporting business tactics and strategies with corporate finance analysis and advice
  • Supporting M&A projects
  • Working on project financings
  • Lease management
  • Supporting other Treasury duties and functions as needed
• Performing financial analysis
• Variable Interest Entity (VIE) Fuel Trust administration
  • Manage short term and medium-term cash needs of VIE
  • Track ongoing VIE activities accurately
  • Work with Accounting to verify the VIE activity is being properly captured on Entergy's books
• Collaborate and Share Knowledge with immediate group and broader groups throughout the company
• Data entry to support the accounting of financings

Minimum Requirements

Minimum education required of the position:

• Bachelor’s degree – Finance, Economics, Business Administration, Risk or Accounting or a related degree.

 
Minimum experience required of the position:

Minimum experience required of the position:

• Financial Analyst I:  0-2 years of professional experience in finance, accounting, banking or the relevant field. 
• Financial Analyst II: 2 - 4 years of professional experience in finance, accounting, banking or the relevant field.
• Financial Analyst III: 3 - 5 years of professional experience in finance, accounting, banking or the relevant field.
• Financial Analyst Lead: 5+ years of professional experience in finance, accounting, banking or the relevant field.

 Minimum knowledge, skills and abilities required of the position:

Working knowledge of MS Office, Word, PowerPoint and Excel. Ability to analyze problems and create solutions.  Strong verbal and written communications skills.

Additional Information:

This position typically takes 6 to 12 months to become independently productive, and candidate should expect to stay in the role for 4+ years to gain full competency and experience in the corporate finance group functions.
This position is in the office 3 days a week, has needs to work in person for select events after hours in order to maintain our banking relationships and may have occasional overnight travel requirements.

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Primary Location: Louisiana-New Orleans Louisiana : New Orleans 
Job Function: Professional
FLSA Status: Professional 
Relocation Option: No Relocation Offered
Union description/code: NON BARGAINING UNIT 
Number of Openings: 1
Req ID: 119606
Travel Percentage:Up to 25%

An Equal Opportunity Employer, Minority/Female/Disability/Vets. Please click here to navigate to EEO page, or see statements below.

EEO Statement: The Entergy System of Companies provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a protected veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. The Entergy System of Companies complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment including, but not limited to, recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training. 

The Entergy System of Companies expressly prohibits any form of unlawful employee harassment based on race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status. Improper interference with the ability of the Entergy System of Company employees to perform their expected job duties is absolutely not tolerated.

Accessibility: Entergy provides reasonable accommodations for online applicants. Requests for a reasonable accommodation may be made orally or in writing by an applicant, employee, or third party on his or her behalf. If you are an individual with a disability and you are in need of an accommodation for the recruiting process please click here and provide your name, contact number, the accommodation requested and the requisition number that you are requesting the accommodation for. Employee Services will contact you regarding your request.

Additional Responsibilities: As a provider of essential services, Entergy expects its employees to be available to work additional hours, to work in alternate locations, and/or to perform additional duties in connection with storms, outages, emergencies, or other situations as deemed necessary by the company. Exempt employees may not be paid overtime associated with such duties.

Entergy Pay Transparency Policy Statement: The Entergy System of Companies (the Company) will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the Company’s legal duty to furnish information.  41 CFR 60-1.35(c). Equal Opportunity and Pay Transparency.

Pay Transparency Notice:

Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision (dol.gov)

The non-confidential portions of the affirmative action program for individuals with disabilities and protected veterans shall be available for inspection upon request by any employee or applicant for employment.  Please contact HRCompliance@entergy.com to schedule a time to review the affirmative action plan during regular office hours.

EEI Testing:

One way that Entergy has found to identify and assess the abilities and skills needed for certain jobs is through pre-employment testing. If this position does require an EEI test, the type of test will be located under the qualifications section of the job posting. If you are invited to a test session, we strongly recommend you review and complete the practice test as well as review the testing brochure for your respective test.  The test brochure will give you critical information on the test such as time allocated and Pre-employment Testing:  of questions.  Also, keep in mind that the actual test is timed; you should practice timing yourself while doing the practice tests. The practice test information and test brochures can be located by going to the EEI website, http://www.eei.org/practicetests, numberLogon ID:  entergy, password:  practice test (2 words). Travel expenses incurred in connection with EEI testing are non-reimbursable.

In addition to EEI testing there is also Fit-for-Duty testing which will identify and assess the abilities and skills needed for certain jobs. If this position does require Fit-for-Duty testing, the type of test will be located under the qualifications section of the job posting.

WORKING CONDITIONS:
As a provider of essential services, Entergy expects its employees to be available to work additional hours, to work in alternate locations, and/or to perform additional duties in connection with storms, outages, emergencies, or other situations as deemed necessary by the company. Exempt employees may not be paid overtime associated with such duties.