Senior Director, Financial Planning & Analysis

The Senior Director, Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) is a key member of the Utility Finance Leadership Team and leads financial planning, forecasting, budgeting, long-range planning, performance reporting, regulatory insights, and decision support for the Utility business.

This role serves as both a strategic finance partner and a transformation leader, advancing the Finance function through improvements in people, process, technology, data, and analytics. The Senior Director will help modernize capabilities, strengthen business insights, and lead change across a complex, regulated utility environment, as well support unregulated assets that are complimentary to the organizations regulated business.

The successful candidate will combine strong financial and business acumen with the leadership presence needed to influence senior stakeholders, build a high-performing team, and translate strategy into measurable business outcomes. Experience with Rate Regulated businesses is preferred.

Lead the development and delivery for all FP&A work streams, including annual budgets, monthly and quarterly outlooks, long-range financial plans, and strategic forecasts for the Utility business.

Serve as a trusted advisor to Utility and Finance leadership by providing clear, actionable insights on financial performance, operational trends, capital investment, risks, and opportunities. Connects financial performance seamlessly with regulatory insights and understanding.

Partner with the Utilities business leaders and Corporate to align financial plans with business priorities.

Oversee executive and Board-level reporting, driving clear overall financial narratives, conclusions, recommendations, quality, and executive alignment. Reporting includes executive-level presentations and financial materials for senior management, the Audit Committee, the WGL Board of Directors, and the Alta Gas Board of Directors.

Support business cases, investment decisions, scenario analysis, and enterprise initiatives that advance the Utility strategy.

Serve as the Utilities Finance partner to Corporate Finance, ensuring Utilities plans, forecasts and investment decisions support enterprise capital allocation, financing, credit metrics and broader financial objectives.

Strengthen financial and business acumen across Utilities leadership to improve decision-making and accountability.

Ensure the timely and accurate completion of the annual budget and long-range planning processes.

Establish planning assumptions, governance, critical deadlines, and accountabilities, and drive the organization to deliver high-quality plans on time.

Challenge plans and assumptions constructively to improve financial rigor, transparency, and alignment with strategic and operational objectives. Leverage scenario planning to improve the insights from the budget and long-range planning process.

Integrate operating, capital, regulatory, and workforce considerations into a comprehensive view of Utility performance.

Lead the monthly forecasting and outlook process, providing predictive insight into expected Utility business performance.

Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders to develop accurate, meaningful, and integrated forecasts.

Partner with operational, commercial, and regulatory teams to continuously improve forecast integrity in a changing business environment, anticipating new trends that are proactively built into the forecasts.

Effectively communicate expected performance, key drivers, risks, opportunities, and recommended actions to senior leadership.

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