Business Reporting Director

Position Title

Business Reporting Director

Des Moines, IA, United States

Provides director-level leadership in planning, gathering, analyzing, and synthesizing enterprise-wide information to support leadership decision-making. Delivers clear, actionable financial and operational insights to assess performance and meet evolving internal reporting requirements.

• Provide continuous updates and insights to all levels of the organization in the form of standard reports and scorecards, ad hoc analysis, strategic plans and forecasts, new technology business cases and advanced analytics insights.
• Monitor external news sources and investor communications for material events impacting internal and external companies, updates financial models and related analyses as appropriate and communicates impacts to senior management.
• Contribute to the development of short-term and long-range business planning. Performs detailed analysis on a variety of issues in support of and to facilitate budgetary decision making and provides summary analysis and recommendations to management. Perform in-depth research on companies and execute related financial analysis.
• Develops memorandum and presentations that clearly and concisely communicate evaluation results, assumptions and recommendations, including strategies for management to consider.
• Mentor and support team members in achieving departmental goals and objectives.
• Perform additional special projects, assignments and responsibilities as requested.

• Bachelor's degree in business, finance or accounting, engineering, communications or related field. (Typically four years of related, progressive work experience may be substituted for candidates who do not possess a bachelor's degree.)
• Eight years of related experience in financial and operational analysis, enterprise performance evaluation and complex data synthesis. Experience gathering and integrating information across business units, developing actionable insights and informing leadership decision-making.
• Highly effective verbal and written communication skills to convey financial, operational and technical information accurately and understandably to senior management.
• Strong understanding of corporate finance and utility operations, with the ability to translate financial and operational information into insights that support performance management and leadership decisions.
• Demonstrated ability to meet the leadership expectations outlined in BHE's leadership model.
• Ability to deliver high-quality work products while driving continuous improvement through effective collaboration and stakeholder engagement.
• Highly effective analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills to recognize patterns in data, information or events and to draw logical conclusions and make recommendations.
• Demonstrated project management skills and ability to prioritize and handle multiple projects concurrently in a dynamic, cross-functional environment.
• Software skills to create and analyze spreadsheets, presentations and reports using various applications including Wdesk, Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint.

Mid American Energy Company, a Midwest utility, provides regulated electric and natural gas service to more than 1.6 million customers in Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska and South Dakota. The company owns and operates a portfolio of power-generating assets, approximately 61% of which is wind generation.

Mid American Energy Company is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion or religious creed, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status (except as required by law), gender (including gender identity and expression), sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, genetic information, physical or mental disability, veteran or military status, familial or parental status, marital status or any other category protected by applicable local, state or U.S. federal law.

Employees must be able to perform the essential functions of the position, with or without an accommodation.