Financial Administrator - Oahu, Maui or Hawai

Overview

Financial Administrator - Oahu, Maui or Hawai i Island

Date:
Oct 3, 2025

Location:

Honolulu, Hawaii (HI), US, 96813

Company: hawaiianel

We recognize our competitive advantage -- our people. We believe in our people, who share our vision of meeting the needs of our employees, customers, and communities and who carry out the continued success of the company.

Our employees are committed to the company s foundational values: integrity, excellence, teamwork, environmental stewardship, and community commitment. In turn, we invest in our employees, providing opportunities for challenge and advancement and offering a competitive compensation package.

Posting End Date:
This position will remain open until filled. Early applications are highly encouraged.

Responsible for the planning and management of regulatory accounting activities for the Customer Service departments and General Counsel, and all associated projects. This includes planning and leading all accounting related issues. Manages the allocation of project costs across the Hawaiian Electric Companies (HECO, MECO, and HELCO). Develops, coordinates, and oversees cost controls, budgeting functions, forecasting, and inter-company billing. Coordinates with other Departments to ensure compliance with reporting requirements.

Prepares Public Utilities Commission (PUC) filings. Assists with the successful recovery of all project costs.

• Provides structure, leadership and guidance for all department projects/dockets related to regulatory or revenue requirements issues. Acts as regulatory accounting subject matter expert and witness on any customer service project requiring that input or expertise in the company. Manage development of all revenue requirements related minimum filing requirements across the Companies. Works closely with the Regulatory Department to ensure regulatory compliance reporting, oversight and coordination of all Customer Service and General Counsel regulatory issues.
  
  This includes drafts, reviews, and edits of all regulatory filings such as written testimonies, exhibits and work papers.

• Develops, analyzes and implements capital and operating forecasts to fulfill department and Company financial goals. Monitors, compiles and reconciles department forecast deviations and alerts management of discrepancies. Revises forecasts as necessary to reflect actual year-to-date figures to better predict year-end expenditures. Provides cost control recommendations for requisitions, purchase orders, and contracts. Represents the department in the preparation, justification and management of the process area budget.

• Develops and analyzes computerized project cost reports to ensure that costs are within budgeted amounts. Prepares variance reports and manages the updating of project cost estimates and schedules and follows up accordingly to ensure that projects stay on track. Alerts management of discrepancies. Revises forecasts as necessary to reflect actual year-to-date figures to better predict year-end expenditures. Manages project accounting hierarchy and work order coordination.

• Compiles and analyzes data and develops special reports for the Manager, Directors, and other Department staff in support of both program-level and project specific objectives. Lead the development of presentations, such as Project Review Committee, Audit Committee, IT Steering Committee and Board of Directors, as necessary. Example reports are for Capital Expenditures combined Board of Directors Report, Quarterly Business Review, tracking of major capital projects, rate cases, and PUC proceedings.

• Develops and maintains an updated project, contract and document library to archive key documents (e.g., customer proposals and agreements; consultant agreements; construction contracts, permits, etc.), using electronic filing technology. Monitors and controls access for all company project members to the archival system.

• Participates in Company emergency response activities as assigned, including any activities required to prepare for such emergency response.

Basic Qualifications

• Thorough knowledge of the principles of accounting, including general ledger, cost accounting and capital budget systems normally acquired through college level courses or significant equivalent experience. CPA license desired.

• Thorough knowledge of financial software systems and management reports.

• Working knowledge of regulatory principles and practice, particularly as it relates to Hawaii, preferred.

• Thorough knowledge of personal computers and related software applications (i.e., spreadsheets, word processing, etc.).

• Comprehensive working knowledge of project management systems.

• Working knowledge of Company and department financial policies and procedures.

• In-depth numerical, analytical, computational, and statistical skills to manage budget and perform project analysis.

• Strong interpersonal skills to work collectively with various departments and…