Manager IT - Principal Financial Planner
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Location: CHICAGO, IL, United States
Organization: Exelon Business Servcs Co, LLC
Job ID: 235420
Date Posted: Jan 17, 2022
Job: Information Technology - Staff
Job Description
Description
At Exelon, we've got a place for you!
Join the nation's leading competitive energy provider, with one of the largest electricity generation portfolios and retail customer bases in the country. You will be part of a family of companies that strives for the highest standards of power generation, competitive energy sales, and energy delivery. Our team of outstanding professionals is focused on performance, thought leadership, innovation, and the power of ideas that come from a diverse and inclusive workforce.
Exelon will provide you the tools and resources you need to design, build and enhance a successful career. We are also dedicated to motivating the success of our employees through competitive base salary, incentives, and health and retirement benefits.
Join Exelon and share your passion at a forward-thinking Fortune 100 company. Establish yourself in a place where you can truly shine and create a brighter, more sustainable tomorrow. Energize your career at Exelon!
PRIMARY PURPOSE OF POSITION
Serve as the lead planner and financial project controller for the Customer IT division's portfolio roadmap. Provide proactive monitoring and tracking of IT portfolio investments to maintain enterprise wide visibility in alignment with strategic optimization and governance processes. Establish, maintain and enhance relationships with IT and business partners. Closely partner with portfolio team to deliver financial excellence and business value realization. Participate in developing and implementing strategy, process, and policy. Support large-scale portfolio of high complexity, size and change management risk.
- Lead Customer Flight Path roadmap financial practices in coordination with IT and Business teams
- Lead the coordination of IT portfolio budgets. Orchestrate the monthly close and forecast processes and related variance analysis for Customer projects portfolio
- Provide coaching and support to Customer IT Planner Analysts
- Facilitate and align IT investment planning, via Long Range Planning for IT demand
- Assist in shaping strategic performance scorecards in alignment with a value-based performance model
- Maintain and enhance relationships with Finance, Business Units and IT partners
- Communicate status and performance to key stakeholders on a regular and ad-hoc basis, including transparency via monthly status reports, gathering and publication of monthly Performance Indicators (PI’s), with supporting commentary
- Assist in identifying and/or processing offsets to reflect evolving and emergent needs
- Manage financial management process, including analysis of actual results to forecast and budget for labor/non-labor Product, Platform, and project Portfolios
- Facilitate and manage annual LRP build and variance analysis in addition to supporting challenge sessions
- Management level reporting and presentations (i.e., Metrics reporting)
- Analyze resource usage against budget and past trends and forecast future trends
- Support project authorization process in various formats
- Identify new cost and/or process optimization opportunities and risks
- Oversee KPI development, tracking, and reporting
- Position may minimally require extended hours, including 24 x 7 coverage during storms or other energy delivery emergencies
PRIMARY DUTIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES
- Lead IT staff and resources in accordance with IT Business Plan. For projects: Plan and manage scope, schedule, and budget for defined deliverables in accordance with IT project management standards. For operations/application maintenance: Plan and manage to defined service level agreements at agreed upon budgets. (25%)
- Lead and manage IT projects and associated system integrators to deliver projects of medium to high complexity. (10%)
- Operate utilizing standard processes as defined within the Management Model. Oversee process improvement efforts and ensure adoption of standard processes and procedures that deliver sustainable top quartile cost and performance levels. (15%)
- Establish, maintain, and enhance relationships with business and IT partners. Communicate status to key stakeholders on a regular basis. (15%)
- Maintain current business knowledge/acumen, including application of technology solutions to deliver business results. (10%)
- Evaluate performance and provide coaching for IT personnel. Participate in career development and succession planning processes. Promote diversity and foster teamwork, collaboration, and a learning organization. Provide input on development and retention processes for IT employees. (10%)
- Prepare and manage budget for area of responsibility. (5%)
JOB SCOPE
- Total Staff Managed: 5 to 20 Note: This role will not have direct reports in year 1. This is subject to change. Leadership and coaching capabilities will be important for any successful candidate.
- Utilize understanding of customer's business needs to determine requirements and help set direction.
- Determine and helps others learn appropriate theories, practices and principles that relate to their skill set portfolio and related sciences and disciplines.
- Make judicious decisions in familiar and new situations and contributes to strategic decisions.
- Represent business client's perspective with IT team
- Dimensions: Span of control (generally 10), level of budget control, technical/business complexity, risk, criticality of assignment to business
- Budget Management specific to area of accountability.
- Operate independently with little or no supervision.
Qualifications
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree in Finance or related discipline and typically 8 to 10 years experience in Financial Role or equivalent combination of education and work experience.
- Appropriate technical skills:
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- Advanced financial planning skills with proven experience in delivering long and short-term financial goals
- Strong knowledge of business practices and processes in Finance, Accounting, and Business Planning.
- Strong judgment and excellent analytical ability.
- Excellent communications skills and ability to work effectively with all levels of IT and business management and with vendors.
- Deep experience managing budgets for functional area of responsibility.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Graduate Degree in Finance or Accounting
Exelon is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and employees or applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to: age, color, disability, gender, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local law.
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