Financial Analyst III Chesapeake Utilities Corporation : Delaware Category: Financial

What you’ll be working on Financial Planning and Analysis

• Prepares consolidated summary presentations for senior management’s review: including monthly financial summary results, employee presentations, forecast reports.
• Supports the production of a monthly reporting package with variance analysis against prior year, budget, and forecast, including operating expense and/or gross margin analyses, projections, and reports.
• Assists with preparing and reviewing feasibility studies for capital investments.
• Performs detailed analysis of cost allocations and reports on changes and trends from budget and period-over-period results.
• Creates and analyzes moderately complex monthly, quarterly, and annual reports and ensures financial information has been recorded accurately and completely.
• Performs moderately complex financial forecasting, financial modeling and trend analysis.
• Captures and reports key performance indicators, highlights notable trends and analyzes causes of unexpected variances.
• Completes special financial studies, e.g. cost of service studies, return on equity, capital structure, and depreciation.
• Understands the primary drivers for payroll variances, including changes in allocations (capital vs expense), changes in headcount or related vacancies, and rate differentials.
• Assists in reviewing accounting transactions for financial accuracy.

• Provides leadership, training, and support to Financial Analysts on more difficult and complex assignments.
• Assists management with merger and acquisition proforma and analysis.
• Supports preparation of Rate Case filings, specific to revenues and expenses.
• Supports the development of strategic plan, budgets, performance indicators, and target benchmarks.

• Responsible for communication with Managers, Directors, and Senior Staff members.
• Conducts thorough research of historical financial data to analyze trends to support executive leadership decisions.
• Partners and liaises with operations and corporate functions to collect the individual pieces of data and information required for filings and/or reports.
• Assists accounting with understanding budgeted and forecasted expenses to understand drivers for variances and the need for accruals.

• Continuously identifies and implements improvements to financial processes and reporting, enhancing efficiency, accuracy, and decision support.
• Drives best practices within financial planning and analysis areas.