Manager, Generation Support

Direct Energy Business; Houston (TX); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

NRG Energy is seeking a seasoned FP&A professional in Houston to lead budgeting, forecasting, and business planning for the generation fleet. You will analyze spend, track performance metrics, and support PowerSAM, PowerGADS, UC Portal, and SAP systems while presenting insights to executive management.

This role emphasizes strong analytical abilities, cross-functional collaboration, and the ability to drive data-driven decisions in a fast-paced energy environment.

Qualifications

• Five to ten years in heavy industry or conventional power plants.
• BS/BA in Business, Accounting, Engineering, CS, or Math.
• Strong knowledge of the power industry and analytics.
• Experience with budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis.

Responsibilities

• Lead budgeting, forecasting and business planning across the generation fleet.
• Provide support and training for plant analysts and managers.
• Develop dashboards and tools for timely data communication.
• Manage PowerSAM project analyses, risk ranking and assumptions.
• Maintain UC Portal updates and approval workflow.
• Provide monthly PowerGADS support and metric reporting.
• Summarize and present monthly, quarterly and annual performance data to executives.

Skills

Analytical skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Advanced Excel

PowerBI

Education

BS/BA in Business, Accounting, Engineering, CS, or Math

Tools

PowerSAM

PowerGADS

UC Portal

SAP

FPR

Excel

PowerBI

Job description

Date: Aug 6, 2026

Location: Houston, TX, US, 77010

Company: NRG

As an NRG employee, we encourage you to take charge of your career and development journey. We invite you to explore exciting opportunities across our businesses. You’ll find that our dynamic work environment provides variety and challenge. Your growth is key to our ongoing success - take the lead in shaping your career development, goals and future!

Job Summary

• Budgeting, forecasting and business planning,
• Spend analysis and variance reporting,
• PowerSAM support and project economic analysis,
• Maintaining Unit Characteristic (UC) Portal and facilitating updates,
• PowerGADS support, metric tracking, reporting and analysis,
• Annual Incentive Program (AIP) tracking and reporting,
• Fleet financial and operational metric benchmarking,
• Lost Margin Opportunity and Commercial Availability tracking and reporting,
• Scope 1 & 2 Sustainability reporting, and
• Summarizing and presenting financial and operational data to executive management.

This role requires a strong technical understanding of conventional power generation assets combined with excellent organizational and problem-solving skills as well as the ability to work collaboratively across various functional groups.

Essential Duties/Responsibilities

Job responsibilities require cross functional training in Operations Planning & Analysis and Business Management.

Operations Planning & Analysis

• Manage PowerSAM and fleetwide guidance in the creation of PowerSAM project economic analyses and risk ranking to ensure consistent project prioritization and decision analysis,
• Work closely with Engineering and Plant Operations to ensure that project benefit assumptions are accurate and reflect current plant operating parameters,
• Responsible for Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 compliance and 302 certifications for PowerSAM controls.
• Maintain the Unit Characteristic (UC) Portal and facilitate updates and approval workflow,
• Calculate, track and report on Lost Margin Opportunity and Commercial Availability,
• Provide monthly PowerGADS support, event tracking and metric reporting,
• Develop, implement, and maintain a methodology for tying key performance drivers to improvement or cost initiatives,
• Assemble, prepare, and submit annual plant benchmarking metrics for the fleet,
• Utilize multiple data sources to collect, consolidate and analyze plant data and disseminate information to meaningful reports and/or presentations to executive management,
• Prepare training material and conduct training across the generation fleet on PowerSAM, Unit Characteristics, and PowerGADS.
• Support the M&A process for asset sales,
• Develop, manage, and track the plant AIP metric process,
• Summarize and present monthly, quarterly, and annual performance metric reporting,
• Utilize data sources for ad hoc reporting,
• Design and implement tools, develop dashboards and visualizations to facilitate the timely communication and reporting of data that leads to more effective and efficient decision making,
• Support the Asset Integrity Process, Registry, Equipment Scorecard and Dashboard,
• Provide the required support for the filing of the 10Q and 10K reports, and
• Provide the required support for annual Scope 1 and Scope 2 Sustainability reporting.

Business Management

• Lead and drive the budgeting, forecasting and business planning process across the generation fleet,
• Provide support and training to plant business analysts and managers,
• Provide the tools and templates required for budgeting, reforecasting, and various reporting,
• Assist in the preparation and review of financial results, forecasting activities and variance reporting in coordination with FP&A (FPR, SAP, PowerSAM, Plant Characteristics, and Planned Outage Schedules),
• Accurately track, evaluate, and report on NRG’s Labor, Base O&M, VOM, Major Maintenance, Maintenance Capex and Environmental Capex,
• Work with plant business managers on monthly, quarterly, year-to-date, and full year spend analysis and variance reporting,
• Develop and improve on business management processes especially around data automation,
• Assist in ad hoc analysis that ensures the fleet and stations have an effective spend plan to achieve Major Maintenance and Capital Expenditures,
• Summarize and present monthly, quarterly, and annual performance financial reporting,
• Manage the Forecast Portal and Dashboards for reporting on FPR adjustments when outside of a forecast month,
• Prepare regional financial reports for the VPs of Operations,
• Effectively convert financial data to meaningful information for executive management, and Provide the required environmental capex support for the filing of the 10Q and 10K reports.

Working Conditions

• Hybrid work environment located in Texas.
• Travel outside of hybrid work environment will be common, however, weekend travel is not common.
• Willingness to work outside normal business hours as necessary especially during critical issue resolution and to achieve project milestones.

Minimum Requirements

• Five to ten years relevant, heavy industry or conventional power plant experience.
• BS/BA degree in Business, Accounting, Engineering, Computer Science, or Mathematics or related quantitative field.

Preferred Qualifications

• BS/BA degree in Business, Accounting, Engineering, Computer Science, or Mathematics or related quantitative field.
• 10+ years of industry experience with at least 5 years or more directly related to plant operations or heavy industry required.
• Comprehensive knowledge of the power industry including power and commodity markets, rules, and regulations and how these affect/impact plant operations.
• Strong operations background that includes asset optimization, investment, and project finance analysis.
• Demonstrated track record in delivering internal improvement projects in a large and diverse organization.

Additional Knowledge, Skills And Abilities

• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite products such as Excel, Word, Teams, and PowerPoint. PowerBI experience and dashboard development is a plus.
• Proficiency, or willing to develop proficiency, in specialized NRG business applications such as PowerSAM, PowerGADS, FPR, UC portal, OSS and SAP.
• Decision making, problem solving, analytical analysis and critical thinking skills required.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills are required as well as the ability to work collaboratively across various functional groups This will be demonstrated across large and small groups of peers or superiors.
• Will be highly organized and able to prioritize deadlines in work-intensive environments.
• Will remain focused and calm in the face of distractions and changing priorities and will have the ability to influence others to do the same.

Physical Requirements (Demand And Frequency)

• Requires travel to plant sites up to 35% of the time to perform job duties and responsibilities.
• Required to follow and use all appropriate personal protective equiepment if working in a plant environment at all times.

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.

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Nearest Major Market: Houston