Job Title: Financial Analyst III - Senior Lead Analyst

Work Place Flexibility: Hybrid 

Legal Entity: Entergy Operations, Inc.-EOI 

Job Summary/Responsibilities:

• Partner with Key Stakeholders to Achieve Objectives: Provide expert financial advice and information to support timely decision making regarding the station’s maintenance events.
• Serve as the Financial Conscience: Monitor and analyze financial results, proactively identify risks and opportunities that may impact profitability, and clearly communicate performance to drive accountability
• Ensure Financial Accuracy: Ensure all financial activity at the site contains accurate information and is executed timely by monitoring, maintaining and completing key financial functions
• Facilitate Financial Planning: Collaborate with leadership to develop financial budgets to align with the station’s operational requirements and company’s regulatory objectives
• Foster Cross-Functional Relationships: Work cross-functionally and develop strong relationships with colleagues in the field to gather information vital to successful completion of deliverables
• Ad Hoc Analysis: Employ strong financial modeling and analytical skills to manipulate large, unstructured datasets to support ad hoc analysis

Core Behaviors Desired:

• Commitment to Excellence: Does whatever it takes to execute deliverables timely and accurately
• Team Player: Strong desire and willingness to support the team and site beyond core responsibilities
• Proactive: Proactively identify opportunities to improve performance
• Strategic Mindset: Forward thinker who anticipates questions and proactively seeks and provides answers
• Clear Communicator: Distills unstructured data in a logical, concise manner to tell the financial story
• Critical Thinker: Uses information to ask questions and better understand unique or ad hoc situations to provide sound financial advice

Core Competencies Desired:

• Expert analytical capabilities, including manipulating large data sets with tools like Excel, Power BI, Access, SQL etc, including use of Pivot Tables, Power Query, table creation, table linkage, dynamic Excel Formulas, etc. 
• General knowledge of GAAP
• Understanding of financial reporting activities, analyses and methodologies

Minimum Requirements:

Minimum experience and education required of the position
Financial Analyst II: Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance, Mathematics, Engineering or related field and 2+ years of relevant experience is required or in lieu of a degree 6+ years of relevant experience is required.
Financial Analyst III: Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance, Mathematics, Engineering or related field and 3+ years of relevant experience is required or in lieu of a degree 7+ years of relevant experience is required.
Financial Analyst Lead:
Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics, Economics, Finance, Accounting, a Relevant Field and 5+ years of experience in finance, accounting, project development or related fields is required OR in lieu of a bachelor's degree 9+ years of experience in finance, accounting, project development or related fields is required
MBA is a plus

Minimum knowledge, skills and abilities required of the position
Strong knowledge of MS Office, Excel, Power BI, PowerPoint, and Word. Ability to work with minimal supervision or within a team environment. Ability to analyze problems and create solutions. Ability to understand and solve complex financial transactions. Ability to prioritize and handle multiple time sensitive projects effectively. Strong verbal and written communication skills. Basic knowledge of financial theory and valuation.

Any certificates, licenses, etc. required for the position
CPA,CFA, PE or similar certificates/licenses are a plus

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Primary Location: Louisiana-St. Francisville Louisiana : St. Francisville 
Job Function: Professional
FLSA Status: Professional 
Relocation Option: No Relocation Offered
Union description/code: NON BARGAINING UNIT 
Number of Openings: 1
Req ID: 121706
Travel Percentage:Up to 25%

An Equal Opportunity Employer, Minority/Female/Disability/Vets. Please click here to view the 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.

 Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal

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 number 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, Logon 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.

Please note: Authorization to work in the United States is a precondition to employment in this position. Entergy will not sponsor candidates for work visas for this position.