Associate, Financial Planning & Analysis

Creative Energy; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 79,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive starting salary

Performance-based bonus program

Comprehensive benefits package

RRSP matching program at 5%

Job summary

A leading energy solutions provider in Vancouver seeks a Financial Analyst to build and maintain financial models and KPIs for district energy systems. The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor's degree, proficiency in Excel and Power BI, and experience in a regulated environment. Responsibilities include financial modeling, regulatory support, and collaboration with various teams. This role offers a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits, ideal for someone passionate about contributing to sustainable energy solutions.

Qualifications

• 1-3 years of experience in financial modeling or corporate finance.
• Experience in regulated environments preferred.
• Strong understanding of financial statements and cash flow modeling.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain financial models for budgeting and forecasting.
• Design and maintain key performance indicators for assets.
• Assist in developing regulatory financial models and rate applications.

Skills

Analytical skills

Attention to detail

Communication

Problem-solving

Ability to manage multiple priorities

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, Business or related field

Tools

Excel

Power BI

Job description

The Opportunity

You will be responsible for building, maintaining, and enhancing financial models used across the organization for business planning, asset performance monitoring, investment analysis, corporate development, and regulatory purposes. You will work closely with the Corporate Development, Accounting, Operations, and Regulatory teams to ensure models and performance metrics are accurate, transparent, and fit for decision-making and external review.

What you will Do

Financial Modeling

• Develop and maintain robust financial models to support budgeting, forecasting, long‑term planning, capital investment analysis, and scenario evaluation for District Energy Systems.
• Build models that are scalable, auditable, and clearly structured, with well‑documented assumptions and logic.
• Translate operational and asset‑level inputs into financial outputs and insights for business units across the company.
• Perform sensitivity and scenario analysis to assess the financial impact of key drivers, risks, and asset performance assumptions.

Asset Performance & Key Performance Indicators

• Design, calculate, and maintain key performance indicators (KPIs) for company assets, including financial, operational, and return‑based metrics.
• Track asset performance against budgets, forecasts, and approved business cases, and identify key drivers of variance.
• Support the development of standardized asset‑level KPI frameworks and dashboards in collaboration with Operations.
• Ensure consistency of asset KPIs across financial models, management reporting, and regulatory submissions.
• Maintenance of the corporate model and quarterly enterprise‑wide valuations.

Regulatory & Rate Models

• Assist in the development, maintenance, and support of regulatory financial models, including rate applications, revenue requirement models, and supporting schedules.
• Work closely with Regulatory Affairs, Corporate Development and Accounting to ensure alignment with regulatory frameworks, approved methodologies, and filing requirements.
• Support Corporate Development in model outputs, explanations, and supporting documentation suitable for regulatory submissions and information requests.
• Support in responses to regulator and stakeholder questions related to financial models, assumptions, and asset performance metrics.

Collaboration & Governance

• Partner with Corporate Development, Accounting, and Operations to ensure consistency across financial models, asset KPIs, budgets, forecasts, and actual results.
• Apply best practices in model design, documentation, version control, and governance.
• Identify opportunities to improve modeling standards, KPI definitions, templates, and efficiency across the organization.
• Support ad‑hoc financial analysis and special projects as required.

Skills / Capabilities We Need

• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills.
• High attention to detail and data integrity.
• Ability to connect asset performance and strategic initiatives to financial outcomes.
• Clear, structured communication.
• Ability to manage multiple models, KPIs, and priorities simultaneously.

Experience / Background

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, Business or a related field.
• 1–3 years of experience in financial modeling, FP&A, corporate development, asset analytics, corporate finance, or consulting.
• Advanced proficiency in Excel; experience with Power BI or other analytical tools as well as exposure to AI tools and automation platforms, including building and applying AI agents, workflow automations using AI tools, is an asset.
• Experience supporting regulated environments (utilities, infrastructure, energy, or similar) is strongly preferred.
• Strong understanding of financial statements, cash flow modeling, asset‑level economics, valuation, and capital analysis.
• Ability to clearly explain complex models, KPIs, and assumptions to both financial and non‑financial stakeholders.

About Us

Recognized as a leader in innovative energy solutions, Creative Energy is the developer, owner, and operator of sustainable district energy systems across North America. Our team has a client‑focused, community‑driven approach to projects that deliver outstanding quality and service while providing clear, measurable benefits that direct long‑term growth and sustainability.

As developer, owner, and operator of one of Canada’s largest thermal networks in downtown Vancouver, we provide significant value to developers, landowners, end‑users, and the broader community through flexible thermal energy solutions by reducing carbon emissions, lowering energy costs, and improving energy reliability. With sixteen bespoke projects across Ontario, British Columbia, and Washington State, we are helping communities transition to cleaner, more resilient energy infrastructure.

Our projects focus on innovation, resiliency, and sustainability, and span across a broad spectrum of technologies including geo‑exchange, ocean exchange, sewer heat recovery, thermal storage, and microgrids.

Utilizing experience and expertise developed through over 56 years of service, Creative Energy is advancing a wide portfolio of new low‑carbon district energy systems across North America, including the revitalization and decarbonization of our downtown Vancouver steam energy centre. This will be one of North America’s largest thermal fuel‑switch projects and will provide downtown Vancouver with renewable energy infrastructure for decades to come.

What We Offer

• Be part of a team that values ingenuity, tenacity, partnership, agility and integrity.
• Enjoy opportunities for professional growth and development.
• Competitive starting salary and performance‑based bonus program. A reasonable estimate of the pay range is CAD$79,000 - CAD$95,000. Within the range, individual pay is determined by factors such as job‑related skills, relevant experience, education and/or training. The upper end of the range is typically reserved for candidates with demonstrated expertise that is above job requirements or who bring exceptional directly transferable experience.
• Comprehensive benefits package, including an RRSP matching program at 5%.

We thank all applicants for their interest; however, we will only be contacting selected candidates for follow‑up.