Financial Analyst

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Job Summary:

This role will be responsible for assisting the senior analysts on the team with the following:

• Preparing financial, operational, and business-related analyses for NRG's Retail business.
• Preparing financial cost forecasts based on inputs from business owners and historical and expected trends
• Monitoring on-going expenses for accuracy and results compared to forecast
• Compiling and prepared financial performance reports and communicating results to business owners
• Working closely with Sales team to build a true cost-of-sales metric

Essential Duties/Responsibilities:

• Monitoring general ledger activity on a monthly basis
• Perform financial analysis to determine and communicate cost drivers and performance
• Work with Sales team to update processes as needed based on analysis findings
• Aid in forecasting selling and operating expenses for sales teams
• Support business owners with financial related research and / or cost scenario planning

• Hybrid 4 days in office, 1 day remote (Friday)
• Some overtime required as special projects arise.

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in business, finance, accounting or economics from an accredited college or university required
• 0-3 years of experience in a financially focused or data analysis role.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiarity with Excel and its basic functions (filtering, sorting, math functions)
• Exposure to simple financial models that calculate ratios based on a set of facts.
• Obtains general knowledge of accounting concepts (income statement, general ledger, accruals, debits and credit)
• Exposure to general ledger accounting systems and/or financial reporting systems is a plus.

Additional Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Ability to manage and organize workload to meet deadlines
• Ability to work independently with guidance and oversite from senior members of the team
• Ability to adapt to changing requirements
• Obtains problem-solving skills and is detail oriented.
• Ability to effectively communicate with a wide range of audiences in both written and oral form.

Physical Requirements:

• Required to sit and/or stand for extended periods of time
• Evening and weekend work may be required as job duties demand.

NRG Energy is committed to a drug and alcohol-free workplace. To the extent permitted by law and any applicable collective bargaining agreement, employees are subject to periodic random drug testing, and post-accident and reasonable suspicion drug and alcohol testing. EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability. Level, Title and/or Salary may be adjusted based on the applicant's experience or skills.

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