Financial Analyst

JM Recruiting; Great Falls (MT); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

JM Recruiting is seeking a Financial Analyst to support a Power Plant operation in Montana. The analyst will develop and refine financial models, prepare budget materials, and maintain relationships with stakeholders at all levels.

Strong Excel/PowerPoint skills and a customer-focused approach are essential. The role emphasizes collaboration with internal and external groups to translate business requirements into strategic financial, process and technical solutions, with emphasis on accuracy

Qualifications

• Requires bachelor’s degree or associate degree with 4–6 years’ related work experience
• Strong proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint for analysis and reporting
• Ability to translate business needs into financial/technical solutions
• Excellent communication and presentation skills across all levels of the organization

Responsibilities

• Run, maintain and improve financial models; interpret outputs for high-quality solutions
• Create comprehensive reports and analyses to inform business decisions
• Prepare solutions to moderately complex stakeholder questions on financial and plant operations
• Translate business requirements into strategic financial and technical solutions with internal/external groups
• Build knowledge of business processes to support ongoing operations
• Develop knowledge of Plant Operations, Maintenance and Systems and power plant workflows
• Interpret financial and operations data for stakeholders to ensure accurate practices
• Ensure data consistency across ERP, CRM and accounting systems
• Assist with reporting requests, documentation, and research for leadership
• Refresh recurring metrics and draft team data reports

Skills

Analytical thinking

Presentation skills

Stakeholder communication

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree

Associate degree + 4–6 years experience

5–7 years related experience

Tools

Microsoft Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Financial Analyst Needed in Big Sky Country!

The Financial Analyst will be responsible for analytical, technical, financial and business process solutions to directly support the Plant. You will assist with Owner relations, presentations of relevant budget materials, and plant operations materials. The business analyst is someone who is naturally curious and focused on continuously improving their knowledge of the business, customer focus, technical abilities and understanding of concepts and the development and maintenance of relationships with our stakeholders at all levels of the organization.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for running, maintaining and improving financial models and understanding said model’s output to produce high-quality business solutions.
• Creates comprehensive reports including data analysis and other relevant information to improve business functions and maintain strong relationships with business stakeholders.
• Prepares solutions to moderately complex stakeholder questions and/or requests on the financial and business aspects of Power Plant.
• Works with internal and external groups to accurately translate business requirements into strategic financial and technical solutions.
• Build knowledge of the business processes to support the development/improvement of ongoing operations.
• Develops a high-level knowledge of Plant Operations, Maintenance and Systems, with a broad understanding of how the Power Plant operates.
• Interprets financial, project based, plant process, budget and operational data for discussion with stakeholders to assure the most accurate and efficient financial and business practices are in place.
• Ensures data consistency across enterprise resource planning, databases, customer relationship management and accounting.
• Assisting with reporting requests, team documentation updates and research projects for leadership.
• Refreshing recurring team metrics, updating active tracking sheets and building drafts of team data reports.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree; or associate degree and 4 to 6 years related work experience; or 5 to 7 years related work experience.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office products, especially Excel and PowerPoint.
• Solves complex problems independently through learning and persistence.
• Ability to work collaboratively with all levels/groups within the organization by development of strong trust relationships.
• Excellent presentation skills.
• A strong customer-driven focus. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to present ideas in a concise and focused manner.

Preferred Qualifications

• Dual Degree in Business Management/Finance/Accounting or closely related and 2+ years of related experience.,
• Demonstrated ability to work in a team environment.
• Project management experience.