Senior, Financial Analyst

Share Our Purpose. Be Yourself. Feel Valued. People are the heart of our business. As an American Water employee, you will be offered a competitive salary and health benefits package, along with opportunities to develop, grow, and evolve your career. Our benefits packages focus on key areas such as health & wellness, emotional & well-being, and savings for current & future goals. We are Beautifully Different. We strongly believe having diversity across our company makes us more successful and helps us provide essential services to our customers. We are stronger because we embrace different ideas, viewpoints, experiences, and backgrounds. American Water is the best choice for your next role! Click here for more information on our inclusion, diversity, and equity journey. About American Water American Water (NYSE: AWK) is the largest regulated water and wastewater utility company in the United States. With a history dating back to 1886, We Keep Life Flowing® by providing safe, clean, reliable and affordable drinking water and wastewater services to more than 14 million people across 14 regulated jurisdictions and 18 military installations. American Water’s 6,500 talented professionals leverage their significant expertise and the company’s national size and scale to achieve excellent outcomes for the benefit of customers, employees, investors and other stakeholders. As one of the fastest growing utilities in the U.S., American Water expects to invest $30 to $34 billion in infrastructure repairs and replacement, system resiliency and regulated acquisitions over the next 10 years. The company has a long-standing history of executing its core operations, aligned with sustainable best practices, through its commitments to safety, affordability, customer service, protecting the environment, an inclusive workforce and strengthening communities. American Water has been recognized on the 2023 Bloomberg Gender-Equality Indexfor the fifth consecutive year, ranked 18th on Barron’s 100 Most Sustainable U.S. Companies 2023 List, earned the U.S. Department of Homeland Security SAFETY Act designation and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s WaterSense® Excellence Award, among additional state, local and national recognitions. For more information, visit amwater.com and join American Water on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Primary Role This is intermediate level work involving moderately complex assignments within the job family. Employees in this position gather and analyze data related to public utilities, review utility applications and related materials, research assigned portions of cases, and prepare exhibits, testimony, and supporting documentation. Work is performed under moderate to minimal supervision. Employees may independently handle presentations at public meetings and may provide expert testimony in routine cases or testify regarding findings from assigned research.Key Accountabilities

• Prepare financial updates, including relevant analyses versus prior periods and providing forecasts/budgets, examining associated risk/opportunities.
• Support merger and acquisition activities with sophisticated financial analysis and modeling, market and target company research, due diligence, and coordination of activities with internal and external colleagues.
• Provide financial support and analysis for business development and strategic planning activities such as partnerships, strategic alliances, joint ventures, reengineering projects and divestitures.
• Perform cost/benefit analysis for projects and departments, develop graphs, reports, dashboards, routine and ad hoc reports and present reports and project results to management.
• Expedite reporting processes and analysis by combining and analyzing data from disparate systems and processes and interpreting trends and patterns in financial data sets.
• Work with internal stake holders, report requestors, and management to solidify requirements, discuss interpretation of reports, provide feedback, and propose actions for improvement.
• Collaborate with other business areas to develop and maintain financial planning activities including departmental budgets, staffing models, and pricing models.
• Make recommendations to management regarding cost saving or profit generating opportunities and profitability improvement strategies.
• Recommend establishment of new or modified reporting methods and procedures to improve report content and completeness of information; identify trends and recommends business improvements.Experience/Education
• Bachelor's degree in economics, finance, accounting, business or a closely related field or an equivalent combination of education and experience, or equivalent combination of undergraduate education and work experience that provides the knowledge and exposure to the financial analysis of utility rates, expenses, revenues and services and exposure to the fundamental theories, principles and concepts of the field.
• Advanced degree or CPA preferred.