Manager, Corporate Planning

Trico Electric Cooperative; Arizona; On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Trico Electric Cooperative is seeking a Manager, Corporate Planning to lead planning, forecasting, and analytical functions. This role is key to sound financial performance and regulatory compliance. Responsibilities include managing long-term financial planning, overseeing load forecasting, analyzing power supply alternatives, and ensuring alignment with strategic objectives. Ideal candidates have a Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field and extensive experience in the electric utility sector, with strong analytical and communication skills.

Qualifications

• 7 years of experience in forecasting, modeling and utility analysis.
• Knowledge of regulatory frameworks and processes, including Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC).
• Ability to communicate complex analysis clearly.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Cooperative’s planning, forecasting, and analytical functions.
• Prepare the Cooperative’s annual long-term load forecast.
• Analyze power supply alternatives and assist in formulating plans.

Skills

Forecasting

Modeling

Financial Analysis

Advanced Excel

Regulatory Knowledge

Communication Skills

Independent Work

Team Collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field

Job description

Join Our Team as a Manager, Corporate Planning at Trico Electric Cooperative!

We are committed to fostering a culture of excellence, where employees are empowered to grow, collaborate, and contribute to meaningful work. Just as we strive to provide 5-star customer service to our members, we also hold ourselves to the highest standards in how we work and support one another.

What You Will Do

The Manager, Corporate Planning is responsible for leading the Cooperative’s planning, forecasting, and analytical functions to support sound financial performance, regulatory compliance, and member-focused decision-making. This role oversees short- and long-range financial planning, load forecasting, power supply analysis, and rate design, ensuring alignment between forecast assumptions, operational realities, and long-term strategic objectives. This position oversees Billing and Energy Solutions to evaluate the financial and load impacts of energy solutions programs, evolving usage patterns, and Member behavior. This position assesses how program participation, rate structures, and billing considerations influence revenue requirements, cost recovery, and rate equity, supporting transparent and sustainable outcomes for the Cooperative and its Members. The Manager, Corporate Planning is expected to function as an agent-augmented analyst, identifying tasks within the planning and forecasting function that are appropriate for AI agent support, partnering with the Business Intelligence team through the AI Agent Intake process, and serving as the primary domain expert and quality control owner for agents deployed in this functional area. Agents deployed within this domain are supervised by this position and do not operate autonomously without the Manager’s oversight and periodic validation. As a leader, the Manager provides leadership, mentoring, and coaching to direct reports, fostering strong analytical capability, accountability, and collaboration. This role ensures high-quality, timely analysis and recommendations that inform executive leadership, support operational planning, and advance the Cooperative’s

Key duties and expectations include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Prepares or directs the Cooperative’s annual long-term load forecast and financial forecast and revenue requirements analysis.
• Provides 12-month projections of wholesale power costs, customers, energy sales and revenue for the annual budget and other related analysis for corporate decision support.
• Prepares or directs monthly customer, energy, revenue and power cost statistics and budget variance analysis; directs the calculation of financial ratios quarterly to verify compliance with lender covenants.
• Prepares monthly fuel bank reports to forecast potential changes necessary to maintain an appropriate fuel bank balance, taking into consideration rate impact, cash flow needs and regulatory requirements.
• Reviews monthly wholesale power and transmission bills for anomalies and accuracy; prepares reports and analyses to show trends and provide recommendations.
• Analyzes power supply alternatives, performance of existing power supply and assists in formulating short and long-term power and transmission supply plans.
• Provides support during contract negotiations of wholesale power and large commercial contracts.
• Leads projects using internal resources and outside consultants for rate design, cost of service, rate of return and rate case activities for the Cooperative.
• Prepares financial forecast scenarios and cost-of-service to support rate case witnesses and consultants as part of rate cases or other regulatory requirements.
• Performs other duties as required and/or assigned.

What You Bring to Trico

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or other related field with seven years’ experience in forecasting, modeling and utility analysis.
• Ten years’ experience in forecasting, modeling and analysis at an electric utility in lieu of education.
• Advanced Excel; ability to communicate complex analysis clearly
• Familiarity with utility tariffs, pricing structures, and distributed generation (DG) export rates.
• Knowledge of regulatory frameworks and processes, including Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC) rules, filings, and compliance requirements.
• Demonstrates an agent-augmented analyst mindset actively seeks opportunities to offload repeatable, structured analytical tasks to agents; invests saved capacity in higher-judgment work such as scenario interpretation, stakeholder communication, and regulatory advocacy.
• Ability to work independently while contributing effectively as part of a cross-functional team.

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disabled and veterans.