Operations Business Analyst

Operations Business Analyst

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Job Summary :

Responsible for supporting plant financial operations by developing and monitoring budgets, forecasts, and cost reports, while ensuring compliance with safety, environmental, and regulatory standards. Collaborates with cross-functional teams to provide financial insights, manage assets, and drive continuous improvement in business planning and performance.

Essential Duties / Responsibilities :

• Supports and emphasizes the importance of safety and environmental programs and ensures regulatory compliance.
• Develops and executes plans to accomplish development, regular updating, and monitoring of the Plant budget and cost forecasts.
• Works closely with Engineers and Outage Managers on Project cost tracking.
• Provides appropriate information, recommendations, and guidance to department personnel to obtain the necessary input to support the budget development and monitoring process.
• Creates documents, including reports, memos, graphs, charts, tables, etc.
• Coordinates monthly variance analysis, reviews results, reconciles actual costs with budget / forecasts, summarizes variance explanations / forecasts, and distributes the information as appropriate.
• Prepares journal corrections and coordinates monthly and year-end accruals.
• Prepares special cost / budget reports and analyses with minimal direction at the request of department management.
• Understands business processes and their financial implication / impact to the Plant and Company.
• Generates and submits budget exception reports when necessary.
• Ensures all Company resources are utilized in a cost-effective manner, estimates resource requirements, monitors expenditures, and reports on performance of assigned area.
• Coordinates with Corporate Accounting on the creation of new assets and retirement of old assets.
• Works with Business Manager with the development and updating of the Plant Business Plan.
• Works with Corporate Accounting on taxation reviews.
• Demonstrates employee involvement, innovative thinking, adaptation to change, responsible risk taking, customer focus, and continuous improvement.
• Ensures development and implementation of assigned area goals, objectives and initiatives.
• Promotes productivity and teamwork with open communication, timely decision making, and use of personal leadership skills to set high standards of performance.
• Recognizes problems and is proactive in resolution.

Working Conditions :

Minimum Requirements :

Additional Knowledge, Skills and Abilities :

Physical Requirements (Demand and Frequency) : Required to follow and use all appropriate personal protective equipment if working in a plant environment.

Please Note : Salary offered will be commensurate with the successful candidate's education and / or experience and consistent with the job location's market pay rate.

NRG Energy is committed to a drug and alcohol-free workplace. To the extent permitted by law and any applicable collective bargaining agreement, employees are subject to periodic random drug testing, and post-accident and reasonable suspicion drug and alcohol testing. EOE AA M / F / Vet / Disability. Level, Title and / or Salary may be adjusted based on the applicant's experience or skills.