Regional Business Manager - East

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This position requires travel to the plants located on the North East.

The primary function of this position is to support NRG’s generation fleet.

Responsibilities include:

• Budgeting, forecasting and business planning,
• Spend analysis and variance reporting,
• Power
  
  SAM support and project economic analysis,
• Validation of Annual Incentive Program (AIP) tracking and Budget Exception reporting,
• Summarizing and presenting financial and operational data to executive management.

This role requires a strong technical understanding of conventional power generation assets combined with excellent organizational and problem-solving skills as well as the ability to work collaboratively across various functional groups.

Job responsibilities include:

• Lead and drive the budgeting, forecasting and business planning process across the generation fleet,
• Provide support and training to plant business analysts and managers,
• Provide the tools and templates required for budgeting, reforecasting, and various reporting,
• Assist in the preparation and review of financial results, forecasting activities and variance reporting in coordination with FP&A (FPR, SAP, Power
  
  SAM, Plant Unit Characteristics, and Planned Outage Schedules),
• Accurately track, evaluate, and report on NRG’s Labor, Base O&M, VOM, Major Maintenance, Maintenance Capex and Environmental Capex,
• Work with plant business analysts and managers on monthly, quarterly, year-to-date, and full year spend analysis and variance reporting,
• Develop and improve on business management processes especially around data automation,
• Assist in ad hoc analysis that ensures the fleet and stations have an effective spend plan to achieve Major Maintenance and Capital Expenditures,
• Summarize and present monthly, quarterly, and annual performance financial reporting,
• Manage the Forecast Portal and Dashboards for reporting on FPR adjustments when outside of a forecast month,
• Prepare regional financial reports for the VPs of Operations,
• Track and update actual spend, budget and forecast related to deactivation, ARO and environmental liabilities
• Effectively convert financial data to meaningful information for executive management, and
• Provide the required environmental capex support for the filing of the 10Q and 10K reports.

• Hybrid work environment with office opportunities in either Houston, Pittsburgh, or Princeton.
• Travel outside of hybrid work environment will be common, however, weekend travel is not common.

• Willingness to work outside normal business hours as necessary especially during critical issue resolution and to achieve project milestones.

• Five to ten years relevant, heavy industry or conventional power plant experience.

• BS/BA degree in Business, Accounting, Engineering, Computer Science, or Mathematics or related quantitative field.

• 10+ years of industry experience with at least 5 years or more directly related to plant operations or heavy industry required.

• Comprehensive knowledge of the power industry including power and commodity markets, rules, and regulations and how these affect/impact plant operations.

• Strong operations background that includes asset optimization, investment, and project finance analysis.

• Demonstrated track record in delivering internal improvement projects in a large and diverse organization.

• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite products such as Excel, Word, Teams, and PowerPoint. Power
  
  BI experience and dashboard development is a plus.

• Proficiency, or willing to develop proficiency, in specialized NRG business applications such as Power
  
  SAM, Power
  
  GADS, FPR, UC portal, OSS and SAP.

• Decision making, problem solving, analytical analysis and critical thinking skills required.

• Strong written…