Financial Data AnalystVeolia Environnement SA

Veolia in North America is the top-ranked environmental company in the United States for three consecutive years, and the country’s largest private water operator and technology provider as well as hazardous waste and pollution treatment leader. It offers a full spectrum of water, waste, and energy management services, including water and wastewater treatment, commercial and hazardous waste collection and disposal, energy consulting and resource recovery. Veolia helps commercial, industrial, healthcare, higher education and municipality customers throughout North America. Headquartered in Boston, Veolia has more than 10,000 employees working at more than 350 locations across North America.

Position Purpose:

The Financial Data Analyst partners with the Director of Finance, Senior Leaders, and Finance Team to assist with automating processes and reporting, Collaborates closely with Operation Leaders to support strategic initiatives and decision-making, create financial models to provide insights to business operations, analyze and resolve data issues within the newly implemented systems, ensuring smooth operations, develop and maintain insightful financial dashboards and reports using advanced business intelligence tools and apply data mining techniques and visualization tools to support strategic planning, cost transparency, and operational efficiency.

Primary Duties/Responsibilities:

The NJ Regulated finance team delivers operational support and education to a 500+ employee organization that delivers continuous clean drinking water for over 1 million customers within NJ. This role provides a dynamic learning environment to understand regulatory, customer, operational, and financial needs. In this role, you will directly work with operations leaders with the Finance Team. This collaborative team effort covers the core topics of FP&A, regulatory reporting, financial/AP controls, and operational KPIs. This stable team is highly motivated and empowered for new ideas and improvements; while also highly encouraging cross function education. As an employee you will find a balance between routine, self-led projects, and accessible leadership. Beyond a curious mind and strong financial data skills, a successful candidate will have a high desire to learn the operations, tinker and improve, challenge and execute.

Deliver FP&A support to Director of Finance, Manager, and Finance Team:

• Collaborate with monthly reporting, variance analysis, budget, and forecast deliverables.
• Support month end close processes including accruals, AP, inventory, and reclasses.
• Update annual allocations, capitalization, regulatory reports, and financial contractual obligations.

Leverage tools to provide a high level of data proficiency and analytical skills:

• Query, scrub, and manage data to provide transparency and insights.
• Redevelop and automate existing reporting.
• Monitor and create controls to drive the financial performance, accounting rules, state/federal regulatory compliance, and contractual agreements.
• Strategic member for monthly Key Performance Indicators Leadership Review (partner in development, presentations, and strategy).

Education/Experience/Background:

• Bachelor degree in Finance, Economics, Statistics, Engineering, a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• MBA preferred
• 3-5 years of progressive experience in Finance/Accounting/Data
• Mastery of Excel and Google (or equivalent business intelligence data tools)
• Prior utility industry experience desired
• Significant achievements in analyzing complex financial issues
• KPI or data science experience

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

• Desire to learn about the Water Industry.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills that translate to operational effectiveness.
• High sense of urgency and ability to deliver on tasks and projects. Ability to identify creative solutions and to individually execute as a sole contributor.
• Highly proficient with Google, Microsoft Office Suite, or equivalent system.
• Highly effective management of data, data scrubbing, and data visualization (SQL/Power Query/Looker/ basics preferred).
• Integrity, reliability and autonomy.
• Peoplesoft, Hyperion, Perspectives, Workday, SmartView knowledge are highly desirable.
• Interpersonal skills with ability to interact with all levels of management.