Supervisor Vegetation Management Analytics & Finance - Vegetation Management

Job Title:

Supervisor, Vegetation Program Management
- Analytics & Finance

Location:

Onsite in Akron OH, Greensburg, PA, Reading, PA, Fairmont, WV, or Holmdel, NJ. (Other FE locations may be considered)

We are a forward-thinking electric utility powered by a diverse team of employees committed to making customers' lives brighter, the environment better and our communities stronger.

First Energy (NYSE: FE) is dedicated to integrity, safety, reliability and operational excellence. Headquartered in Akron, Ohio, First Energy includes one of the nation's largest investor-owned electric systems, more than 24,000 miles of transmission lines that connect the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic regions, and a regulated generating fleet with a total capacity of more than 3,500 megawatts.

All employees who apply for a posted position must notify their supervisors that they have applied. Employees who have not been in their current positions for at least one year or who are in a position with specific requirements beyond one year, must obtain approval from their supervisor before applying.

The selected candidate may be offered a position within the same job family, at a level that is lower than what was posted. This will be determined based upon the results of the interview process which considers the candidate's skills, work history, experience level, and other relevant qualifications.

This is an open onsite position with First Energy Service Company, a subsidiary of First Energy Corp.

The Supervisor, Vegetation Program Management
- Analytics & Finance reports to the Manager, Vegetation Program Management. This is a full-time, on-site position located at any First Energy office location. This position oversees business unit financials, reporting, data analysis, and operational support for Vegetation Management. The supervisor leads a team that supports financial management, strategic and capital planning, forecasting, budgeting, regulatory and audit requests, benchmarking, reliability reporting, key performance indicator (KPI) tracking, business integration, and data analytics.

The role partners with employees across the organization, including subject matter experts and senior executive leaders, to identify trends, strengthen controls, improve processes, and support data-informed business decisions.

• Lead, coach, and develop employees responsible for financial management, reporting, analytics, and operational support.
• Oversee financial processes, controls, reporting, budgeting, forecasting, variances, accruals, invoicing, requisitions, purchase orders, storm accounting, and related transactions.
• Ensure financial activities, processes, and procedures comply with company accounting policies, internal controls, regulatory requirements, and business unit standards.
• Monitor performance, reliability, compliance, operational, and financial metrics; identify trends, risks, gaps, mitigation measures, data validation, and identify improvement opportunities.
• Analyze financial, operational, and reliability data, manage expenses, reduce costs, track actuals against forecasts, and proactively provide reports, communications, and recommendations to senior executive leadership.
• Support strategic planning, capital planning, multi-year forecasting, KPIs, business cases, rate cases, audits, regulatory filings, legal testimony, grants, benchmarking, and program initiatives.
• Conduct advanced data analysis, interpret results, support AI-related data initiatives, and partner with report developers to improve dashboards, reporting tools, identifying trends, predictive modeling, and data extraction processes in Azure and Databricks work spaces.
• Develop, maintain, and standardize financial controls, documents, templates, workflows, processes, tools, reports, and shared information resources.
• Maintain, support, and ensure timely, accurate processing of data for contractor timesheets, invoices, and reports within the Vegetation Management timesheet and invoicing retention system (VGMS).
• Support contract administration, procurement activities, bid files, should-cost updates, change orders, scorecards, Coupa support, and vendor incentive or penalty assessments.
• Lead and support continuous improvement efforts, automation, evolving financial requests, emerging technology initiatives, process standardization, and business unit change management.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with internal and…