Additional Job duties include:
- Budgeting, forecasting, and modeling of division labor
- Analyze complex transactions, their accounting treatment and financial/operational impact
- Requires the ability to manipulate and analyze large sets of data
- Identifies ways to improve work processes and reporting to better support internal customers
- Reconcile and validate information to the general ledger
- Advanced Microsoft Excel and Access preferred
- The successful candidate must be able to communicate clearly and effectively with leadership.
1. Directs and conducts complex and strategic financial analyses and research in such areas as revenue and expense performance capital spending depreciation net investment peer company performance and other special projects. Knows and uses advanced financial analysis concepts practices and procedures.
2. Retrieves data from company databases and reporting systems. Compiles complex data and prepares clear transparent reports graphs and presentations for management. Develops financial or economic models. Reviews reports for accuracy and completeness.
3. Manages revenue and expense forecasts and projections of capital spending and rate base. Provides forecasting scenarios to support and recommend business decisions. Forecasts long term financial results and development opportunities for the Company.
4. Primary contact with internal partners such as Operations Engineering Marketing Rates & Regulatory Corporate Accounting and other Divisions when gathering financial information for budgets and forecasts. May represent the department on enterprise teams.
5. Provides guidance to regions / departments in the formulation of their annual expense and capital budgets. Provides input on annual revenue budget. Oversees annual budget input into reporting system and reconciles output to budget targets.
6. Identifies and recommends financial options or strategies when evaluating business opportunities.
7. Conducts audit of financial records. Recognizes missing or incomplete information and inconsistencies or anomalies in financial research. Identifies business process problems makes decisions and finds solutions based on interpretation of policies and procedures.8. Provides guidance and support for less-experienced financial staff members.9. Performs work with minimal guidance and a high level of independent decision-making.
Qualifications
Educational/Experience Level: Requires a Bachelor’s degree in Finance Accounting and/or Economics and a minimum of five years’ experience in financial analysis or accounting; or equivalent.
Communication Skills:Requires the ability to communicate persuade and/or influence internal and external partners at a high level such as senior management on matters of a technical and/or complex nature. Requires excellent verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills.
Numeric Skills: Requires the ability to perform analyses using complex statistical financial and accounting methods. Requires strong analytical skills and ability to perform independent analysis using complex statistical financial and accounting methods.
Computer Skills: Requires ability to utilize the Company’s database systems and available resources for data entry reference and/or retrieval tasks.Requires advanced knowledge of various software applications such as MS Word Excel Access and Power Point to create complex financial documents reports graphs and presentations.
Work Conditions: Works in an office environment. May require travel to other offices including possible overnight travel.Physical Demands:Requires performing activities including but not limited to sitting standing using office equipment bending stooping grasping reaching twisting turning and/or lifting.
Atmos Energy Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity age national origin disability or veteran status.
