Senior Financial Analyst | Strategic Finance

Summary

Are you a forward-thinking finance professional who is energized by enterprise-level challenges, strategic decision support, and cross-functional collaboration? In joining our Strategic Finance organization, you will work on projects and initiatives with the potential to materially influence the Company’s operating and financial plan. This role applies a long-term strategic and financial lens to complex opportunities, helping leaders evaluate growth, risk, affordability, balance sheet strength, and capital allocation decisions across Pinnacle West Capital Corporation, its non-utility subsidiaries, and Arizona Public Service Company.

What your day would be like:

You are responsible for:

• Commercial and Transaction Support: Advise on customer growth, affordability, risk management, asset purchases or sales, transaction pricing, and contract negotiations where Strategic Finance can help secure balanced enterprise outcomes.
• Analytical Rigor: Develop advanced financial and economic models, scenario analyses, and sensitivities that challenge assumptions and support well-informed management decisions.
• Strategic Problem Solving: Evaluate complex opportunities and business decisions by connecting financial analysis, operational considerations, and broader strategic implications.
• Decision-Ready Storytelling: Translate complex analysis into clear recommendations and executive-level materials that enable timely decisions.
• Enterprise Advisory: Partner with senior leaders to frame decisions through enterprise outcomes, long-term financial implications, and alignment with Company strategy.
• Project Leadership and Collaboration: Lead special projects from framing through recommendation, working across silos with internal and external partners to align stakeholders, clarify tradeoffs, and deliver high-quality outcomes.

The kinds of people we want to talk to have done many of the following:

• Action-Oriented Growth Mindset: Proactive, self-starter, curious, adaptable, and committed to developing the business, financial, and leadership capabilities needed to contribute within Strategic Finance and across the Company over time.
• Financial and Strategic Acumen: Advanced modeling, forecasting, corporate finance, economic analysis, utility finance, and business operations skills, with the judgment to evaluate tradeoffs and challenge assumptions thoughtfully.
• Enterprise Perspective: Ability to integrate near-term analysis with broader strategic and financial implications, with a focus on outcomes that support the Company’s mission and objectives.
• Advisory Experience: Demonstrated ability to advise senior executives, influence decisions, and facilitate two-way communication across business units and leadership teams.
• Communication Excellence: Strong written and verbal communication skills to articulate complex ideas clearly and persuasively.
• Collaborative: A team player who builds trust with internal and external partners, works through ambiguity, and helps facilitate communication across silos.

Minimum Requirements

Senior Financial Analyst | Strategic Finance

• Degree in finance, accounting economics, mathematics or an equivalent combination of education and experience from which comparable knowledge, skills and abilities have been achieved PLUS seven (5) years directly related experience in financial analysis, accounting, economic analysis or data analytics in any industry
• OR five (5) years business operations related experience in the utility or energy services industry.
• In lieu of degree, an equivalent combination of formal education and experience totally ten (10) years is required. 
• Comprehensive knowledge of finance and economic analysis, corporate finance, utility regulation, utility operations.
• Knowledge of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP). 
• Strong research, data management and effective communication skills.
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft applications (Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, etc.) and database tools.

Financial Consultant | Strategic Finance

• Degree in finance, accounting economics, mathematics or an equivalent combination of education and experience from which comparable knowledge, skills and abilities have been achieved PLUS seven (7) years directly related experience in financial analysis, accounting, economic analysis or data analytics in any industry
• OR minimum of seven (7) years business operations-related experience in the utility or energy services industry.
• Advanced knowledge of finance and economic analysis, corporate finance, utility regulation, utility operations.
• Knowledge of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).
• Strong research, data management and effective communication skills.
• Strong research, strong ability to mine and manage large sources of data and excellent executive management written and verbal communication skills a must.
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft applications (Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, etc.) and database tools.

Preferred Special Skills, Knowledge or Qualifications

• MBA or Masters degree highly valued.
• Experience with commercial finance, utility finance, investment banking and/or capital markets, management consulting, and/or emerging financial policy analysis.
• Ability to handle sensitive or confidential work with appropriate discretion. 
• Travel may be required.

Major Accountabilities

1. Drive results by framing enterprise-level issues building advanced financial and economic models and delivering decision-worthy recommendations to senior executive leadership.
2. Analyze projects and initiatives that may materially influence the Company’s operating and financial plan, including growth, risk, affordability, balance sheet strength, and capital allocation considerations.
3. Support corporate development and commercial finance workstreams, including strategic opportunities, divestitures or asset monetization, critical commercial negotiations, complex capital opportunities, and emerging financial policies.
4. Collaborate with business partners to evaluate financial business scenarios, develop ad hoc models, formulate model inputs, process data through financial models, and communicate the broader strategic and financial implications of alternatives.
5. Maintain appropriate documentation, files, records, and systems to support analytical rigor, continuity, compliance, and responsible handling of confidential or sensitive work.
6. Lead special projects from problem definition through recommendation, coordinating timelines, stakeholders, analyses, and deliverables to enable timely, well-informed decisions.
7. Develop, compile, present, and communicate scenario analysis, and decision-support materials for management, including key findings, conclusions, tradeoffs, and recommended actions.
8. Provide guidance, training, and support to business partners and Finance & Accounting team members to build shared understanding of analyses, processes, assumptions, and decision impacts.
9. Maintain comprehensive knowledge of emerging industry and Company issues, with particular focus on developments that could affect strategic positioning, customer growth, affordability, risk, and long-term financial performance.
10. Develop a comprehensive understanding of Company and business-unit policies, procedures, accounting practices, utility regulation, and operational context needed to evaluate enterprise opportunities and constraints.
11. Mentor and support team members by sharing expertise, reinforcing strong business and financial acumen, and contributing to a rotational talent experience that prepares individuals for broader leadership roles across the Company.

Export Compliance / EEO Statement

This position may require access to and/or use of information subject to control under the Department of Energy's Part 810 Regulations (10 CFR Part 810), the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) (15 CFR Parts 730 through 774), or the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) (22 CFR Chapter I, Subchapter M Part 120) (collectively, 'U.S. Export Control Laws'). Therefore, some positions may require applicants to be a U.S. person, which is defined as a U.S. Citizen, a U.S. Lawful Permanent Resident (i.e. 'Green Card Holder'), a Political Asylee, or a Refugee under the U.S. Export Control Laws. All applicants will be required to confirm their U.S. person or non-US person status. All information collected in this regard will only be used to ensure compliance with U.S. Export Control Laws, and will be used in full compliance with all applicable laws prohibiting discrimination on the basis of national origin and other factors. For positions at Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Stations (PVNGS) all openings will require applicants to be a U.S. person.

Pinnacle West Capital Corporation and its subsidiaries and affiliates ('Pinnacle West') maintain a continuing policy of nondiscrimination in employment. It is our policy to provide equal opportunity in all phases of the employment process and in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations. This policy of nondiscrimination shall include, but not be limited to, recruiting, hiring, promoting, compensating, reassigning, demoting, transferring, laying off, recalling, terminating employment, and training for all positions without regard to race, color, religion, disability, age, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, protected veteran status, or any other classification or characteristic protected by law.

For more information on applicable equal employment regulations, please refer to EEO is the Law poster. Federal law requires all employers to verify the identity and employment eligibility of every person hired to work in the United States, refer to E-Verify poster. View the employee rights and responsibilities under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA).

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