Sr Business Analyst, Financial Operations
Company: Sunnova Energy
Location: Albuquerque
Posted on: May 15, 2022
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Job Description:
Brief Description of Sunnova Sunnova is a different kind of
Power Company, offering solar and storage services to homeowners
within the United States and its territories through our network of
local solar dealers and solar standard community homebuilders. Our
mission is powering energy independence TM and changing the energy
industry. At Sunnova, we believe in achieving more by working
together; our diverse workforce allows an inclusive and innovative
culture to power our long-term growth. Our people focus on thinking
beyond traditional limits - and to do that, we need the creativity
and energy of every person. Come be a part of the fastest growing
segment of the energy industry! The Senior Business Analyst,
Financial Operations Position Sunnova Energy is searching for a
Senior Business Analyst of Financial Operations. This newly created
position will be responsible for creating efficiencies and within
the Finance organization by functionally designing and developing
global Finance processes and tools. In support of Sunnova's ongoing
expansion and scale, this role will initially focus on process,
systems, and tool enhancements and related change management.
Success will be measured in the near term by achieving throughput
efficiencies in support of the FP&A organization while being
able to routinely drive continuous improvement across the
organization to achieve greater efficiencies and scalability.
Senior Business Analyst, Financial Operations Responsibilities
Strategy
Defines and proposes priorities for the Finance organization by
analyzing processes, requests, and issues.
Creates the project charter, timeline, project plans, status
reports, resource plans, and triages issues as they arise
Identifies impact and ownership within dependent cross-functional
teams such as Finance, IT, Commercial Operations, and Service &
Energy Operations to involve the impacted stakeholders.
Coordinates with Finance, Accounting, IT, and other stakeholders as
needed to diagnose issues, and processes and designs appropriate
solutions.
Facilitates large meetings with diverse partner groups; includes
kickoff meetings, status meetings, steering committee, design
sessions, issue meetings, etc.
Simplifies project delivery by removing ambiguity and creating
structure for highly complex activities
Anticipates information needs, identifies gaps, and organizes data
and communications cohesively and clearly
Creates scale and promotes consistency through implementation of
tools for enhancing prioritization, documentation, design, or
delivery for Financial Operations to support the greater Finance
organization.
Operations
Increases speed to perform routine forecasting functions via
improved processes, streamlined data sets and global training
efforts
Improves the organization's ability, via better tools, processes
and data reporting to perform meaningful analysis and provide
faster and more actionable information to be used by the
organization to drive results
Documents current and future-state processes to create support for
changes through flowcharts, business requirements documents, data
definitions, etc.
Drives continuous improvement in processes across the Finance
organization and supports change management as needed.
Creates tools to support Finance organization as applicable or
oversees and monitors IT enhancement or project process to be a
steward for Finance. Assists with design, testing, and rollout of
changes.
Creates new reports or ad hoc data requests, identifying data
impact and ownership within dependent cross-functional teams such
as Finance, IT, Commercial Operations, and Service & Energy
Operations.
Minimum Requirements
Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Information
Technology or related area.
4-6+ years' experience managing and driving continuous change and
improvements in processes with increasing levels of
responsibility
Experience in process mapping and business requirements
documentation.
Public company experience
Deep knowledge of financial systems capabilities, finance and
accounting processes, and an understanding of the business and
systems needs to define processes, propose solutions, and document
functional capabilities for requirements.
Experience partnering cross functionally with multiple departments
(e.g., Finance, Accounting, FP&A, IT, Supply Chain, Operations,
etc.)
Experience with reporting/data analytics tools through design and
creation of reports, dashboards, and queries.
Experience working in budgeting and forecasting tools with a track
record demonstrating a thorough understanding of their
structure
Proven track record of timely analyzing and summarizing extremely
large quantities of data.
Very strong aptitude for learning, can quickly grasp complex
concepts and data and summarize for relevant key messages, and are
comfortable driving change and managing within a high-growth
business
Preferred Qualifications
Project Management Professional (PMP) certification
Working knowledge of the Agile methodology
Certified Business Analyst
Certification or training in change management methodologies
Previous experience in renewable energy
Working knowledge of Tableau
Working knowledge of an RPA tool
Experience with data management of financial master data
3 - 5 years' experience in an energy market and/or financial
service industry
Additional Knowledge, Skills And Abilities
Positive, self-motivated and can-do personality - growth
mindset
Very strong organization and communication skills, verbal and
written
Ability to manage multiple projects while working under pressure
and adhere to time constraints
Ethical team player; always maintains the highest degree of
integrity
Working Conditions
Open-office environment
Hybrid work environment
Overtime may be required during busy compliance times
Benefits
Sunnova offers a generous employee reward package that
includes:
Comprehensive benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life
insurance, healthcare flexible spending account, and 401(k) with
employer match.
Competitive compensation & annual bonus
Paid time off, including 10 holidays and Paid Parental Leave
Cell phone allowance for many roles
Free access to onsite fitness center in Houston and/or discounted
fitness memberships through health provider
Complimentary garage parking in Houston
We are an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified
applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard
to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, disability
status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic
protected by law.
If you are selected for a position, your employment will be
contingent upon submission to and successful completion of a
post-offer/pre-placement drug test (and medical examination if
required by the role) as well as pre-placement verification of the
information and qualifications provided during the selection
process.
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