Landowner Payments Leader

NextEra Energy; Florida; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation Provided

Job summary

NextEra Energy Resources, LLC is seeking a Manager, Landowner Services to lead a team responsible for accurate and timely landowner payments across construction and operating projects. The role emphasizes strong accounting acumen, controls, and cross-functional partnership, with focus on system enhancements and scalable processes.

The ideal candidate will be a proven people leader, comfortable handling complex payment scenarios, and will collaborate with Legal, Finance, IT, and other

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree is required.
• Experience: 7+ years.
• Supervisor/Management Experience: 3+ years.

Responsibilities

• Landowner Payment Oversight: Lead the review and approval of landowner payments across construction and operating projects, ensuring payments are accurate, timely, appropriately supported, and consistent with contractual obligations and established controls.
• Team Leadership & Development: Lead, coach, and develop a team of payment analysts; establish clear expectations and consistent processes, provide guidance on complex payment scenarios, and build team capabilities and accountability.
• Agreement & Payment Validation: Develop a strong understanding of land agreements and associated payment provisions to provide oversight of payment calculations, investigate discrepancies, resolve exceptions, and ensure payment obligations are executed appropriately.
• Financial Controls & Payment Integrity: Maintain a strong control environment around landowner payments, including appropriate review, reconciliation, documentation, and approval processes. Partner with relevant stakeholders to support audit, compliance, and control requirements.
• System Enhancement & Testing: Lead the business validation and user acceptance testing of payment system enhancements, including development of test scenarios, validation of expected results, identification and resolution of defects, and assessment of production readiness.
• Process Optimization: Evaluate existing payment processes and controls to identify opportunities to simplify workflows, reduce manual effort, eliminate unnecessary duplication, and improve accuracy and scalability while maintaining appropriate financial and contractual controls.
• System Adoption & Change Management: Drive adoption of system-based payment processes by helping the team understand and trust system functionality, reporting, workflows, and controls.
• Issue Resolution & Root-Cause Analysis: Serve as an escalation point for complex payment and system issues, identify root causes, assess financial and operational impacts, and coordinate resolution across appropriate business and technology partners.
• Cross-Functional Partnership: Collaborate with Land, Development, Construction, Operations, Legal, Finance/Accounting, Technology, and other internal stakeholders to resolve payment issues, interpret requirements, improve processes, and support evolving business needs.
• Operational Excellence: Establish and monitor appropriate metrics, controls, and operating routines to provide visibility into payment accuracy, timeliness, exceptions, workload, and process performance and to identify opportunities for continuous improvement.

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master's - Accounting / Finance

Master's Degree

Job description

NextEra Energy Resources, LLC is seeking a Manager, Landowner Services to lead a team responsible for accurate and timely landowner payments across construction and operating projects. The role emphasizes strong accounting acumen, controls, and cross-functional partnership, with focus on system enhancements and scalable processes.

The ideal candidate will be a proven people leader, comfortable handling complex payment scenarios, and will collaborate with Legal, Finance, IT, and other