Financial Analyst or Senior Financial Analyst

Job Summary

Dominion Energy South Carolina (DESC) is seeking a highly analytical and business-oriented Financial Analyst to support Power Generation Operations. This role serves as a key financial partner to plant leadership, operations, engineering, maintenance, and corporate finance teams. The successful candidate will help drive operational and financial performance across a diverse generating fleet by delivering actionable insights, challenging assumptions, supporting investment decisions, and ensuring effective allocation of capital and operating resources.

This position goes beyond traditional FP&A responsibilities. The analyst will help influence business decisions involving plant operations, outage execution, maintenance strategies, capital investments, and long-range asset planning while supporting regulatory and corporate financial objectives.

Primary Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary finance business partner for assigned power generation facilities and operational leadership teams.
• Lead development of annual operating and maintenance (O&M) budgets, monthly forecasts, and long-range financial plans.
• Monitor and analyze financial performance, identify emerging risks and opportunities, and provide actionable recommendations to management.
• Support generation fleet capital investment planning, including development of business cases, financial models, and Investment Review Committee (IRC) presentations.
• Evaluate capital projects, maintenance programs, equipment replacements, environmental compliance initiatives, and strategic investments.
• Provide financial support for major outages, maintenance activities, and operational improvement initiatives.
• Analyze plant operating performance and develop key performance indicators (KPIs) linking operational results with financial outcomes.
• Support regulatory filings, rate case activities, and other regulatory reporting requirements.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives through automation, process simplification, and enhanced reporting capabilities.
• Develop dashboards and reporting tools utilizing Power BI and other visualization platforms.
• Utilize SAP, Anaplan, Power Plan, CPM, Power BI, and Microsoft Excel to support planning, forecasting, reporting, and analysis activities.
• Collaborate with Operations, Engineering, Supply Chain, Accounting, Regulatory, and Corporate Finance teams to ensure alignment of financial and operational objectives.
• Conduct scenario analysis and ad hoc financial studies supporting executive and operational decision-making.
• Identify opportunities to improve business processes, increase efficiency, and enhance financial transparency.

Required Knowledge, Skills, Abilities & Experience

Senior Financial Analyst: 5+ years of relevant experience in finance, accounting, FP&A, operations finance, or business analysis.

Financial Analyst: 3+ years of relevant experience in finance, accounting, FP&A, operations, finance, or business analysis.

Note:  A Master's degree will count as one year of experience.  A partial year of six months or more experience will be rounded up to one year.

Specific knowledge, skills, abilities and experience:

• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills including financial modeling, forecasting, dataset analysis, pivots and advanced formulas, etc.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-support capabilities.
• Knowledge of budgeting, forecasting, capital planning and/or operational performance measurement.
• Strong interpersonal and business partnership skills.
• Experience developing dashboards, automated reporting solutions and/or business intelligence tools, including A.I.
• Ability to communicate complex financial concepts to non-financial audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently, manage competing priorities, and deliver results in a fast-paced environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting power generation, utility operations, industrial operations, manufacturing, or asset-intensive businesses.
• Knowledge of utility accounting, regulatory environments, and capital project evaluation.
• Experience with SAP, Anaplan, Power BI, Power Plan or similar enterprise platforms.
• Experience developing dashboards, automated reporting solutions, and business intelligence tools.
• Knowledge of budgeting, forecasting, capital planning and operational performance measurement.
  
  

Successful candidates will be trusted advisors to plant and business leadership. They will demonstrate the ability to influence decisions through data-driven insights, challenge assumptions, identify financial risks and opportunities, improve forecasting accuracy, support strategic capital allocation, and continuously improve processes that drive operational and financial performance.

Note:  This position is based in Cayce, South Carolina and will require time in the office each week based on group's hybrid work schedule.

Education Requirements

Bachelor's Degree or higher

Preferred Disciplines:  Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, Engineering

Other disciplines may be substituted for the preferred discipline(s) listed above

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Working Conditions

Other Working Conditions

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