Finance Business Manager - Anaplan

Puget Sound Energy is looking to grow our community with top talented individuals like you! With our rapidly growing, award winning energy efficiency programs, our pathway to an exciting and innovative future is now.

PSE's Financial Planning & Analysis team is looking for qualified candidates to fill an open Finance Business Manager - Anaplan position!

Specific details regarding the work arrangements for this position will be discussed in further detail during the interview process.

Job Description

Puget Sound Energy (PSE), Washington's largest energy company, proudly serves more than 1.2 million electric customers and nearly 900,000 natural gas customers. As part of a significant finance and budget transformation, PSE is implementing Anaplan and S/4 HANA to modernize systems and processes that support more than $5 billion in annual revenue.

We are seeking a highly skilled and strategic finance professional to play a pivotal role in this transformation. In this position, you will serve as the primary representative for the Budgeting team during the implementation of Anaplan, supporting both O&M and capital spend initiatives.

This role functions as a key business partner ensuring alignment between finance requirements and system capabilities. You will be deeply involved, partnering across the organization as Anaplan is implemented over approximately one year and S/4 HANA continues across multiple years. Following implementation, you will take the lead in building and managing the Anaplan Center of Excellence, establishing best practices, governance, and long-term value for the enterprise.

In addition to transformation responsibilities, you will support the broader Finance organization by developing advanced analytical tools and performing both qualitative and quantitative analyses to inform decision-making, support corporate initiatives, and solve complex business challenges. You will lead efforts to drive interdepartmental alignment on assumptions, methodologies, model design, and procedures, while also advising leadership on corporate strategy and operational performance. This role includes leading projects, coordinating activities across finance teams, and contributing to key areas such as financial planning, treasury, and risk management.

PSE is committed to maintaining the highest standards of safety, integrity, and compliance. In this role, you will uphold all safety procedures and compliance requirements while promoting a culture of total safety. You will demonstrate a strong commitment to ethical business practices aligned with PSE's core values and Code of Conduct, ensuring all responsibilities are carried out in accordance with regulatory obligations and industry standards.

Job Responsibilities

* Develops comprehensive financial models supporting financial planning needs of the organization.

* Exercises judgment in selecting methods, techniques and evaluation criteria.

* Determines procedures and coordinates activities of others to execute.

* Builds reports and analyzes data to identify risks and opportunities and make recommendations.

* Continually improves analytical capabilities via networking and staying current on innovations in financial metrics, techniques.

* Directly contributes to the optimization of corporate performance via activities including short and mid-term financial planning, review of accounting issues, and the corporate spending authorization process.

* Produces presentations for management, Board of Directors, and external investors.

* Leads the delivery of recommendations resulting from quantitative and qualitative analyses.

* Anticipates and identifies areas of opportunity or inherent business risks evident in the data and communicates action plans to stakeholders.

* Provides business performance analysis support.

* Advises and may lead process improvement efforts.

* Promotes use and acceptance of leading practices, benchmarking, etc.

* Company & Industry Acumen - Cross functional partners see this person as the subject matter expert; ability to synthesize complex issues and effectively communicate them to management

* Collaboration - Partners with directors and senior management to drive strategic initiatives and long-term business objectives. Work products give leadership confidence in individual's ability to collaborate across functions with little to no guidance.

* Customer Focus - Anticipates customer needs and takes initiative to improve customer experience. Identifies cross-functional opportunities and drives initiatives that break down siloed work perspectives.

* Innovation & Process Improvement - Takes ownership of personal and departmental responsibilities while proactively identifying and implementing improvements to processes, procedures and systems that appropriately considers stakeholder feedback. Leads development of new processes or systems to drive change within the team or broader organization.

* Strategic - Uses strategic thinking and critical reasoning to create solutions and…