Description

Job Description: The Financial Planning and Reporting Manager serves as a strategic partner to business leadership by delivering financial insights that drive operational performance, capital discipline and long-term value creation. This role oversees the preparation, analysis and communication of financial performance, forecasts, budgets and long-range plans. This position will also lead the organization's financial planning and reporting systems, maintaining the stability and on-going enhancement of existing tools, leading integrations of new platforms and ensuring end-to-end alignment across systems to optimize forecasting accuracy and reporting consistency. Additionally, this role conducts cross-functional financial studies and support decision-making across the organization.
Responsibilities:

• Lead and develop the annual budget, long-range (10-year) strategic plan and monthly financial forecasts across the business. This includes gathering detailed financial and operational inputs, updating the UI Planner system, generating UI Planner reports and uploading finalized planning data into the corporate financial databases.
• Deliver clear variance analyses for business leaders by comparing actual results against forecasts and identifying key drivers of performance.
• Serve as the functional owner and subject matter expert for financial planning and reporting systems, maintaining existing platforms and overseeing the integration of new tools by ensuring data accuracy, strong internal controls and cohesive end-to-end functionality to optimize forecasting and reporting.
• Manage the capital budgeting and forecasting process across the business, working closely with renewable development and operations to gain a deep understanding of the operational and growth projects.
• Prepare management-level reporting packages, including revenue, cost of sales, expense and operating results versus budget and forecast as well as other key performance metrics such as return on equity and project internal rate of return.
• Ensure consistent financial governance across planning and reporting processes, including alignment with internal controls, audit requirements and corporate financial standards and policies.
• Provide ad-hoc financial analyses, modeling and support across the business.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance or Business required; MBA or CPA strongly preferred.
• Eight or more years of progressive Accounting or Finance experience with an emphasis on financial planning, reporting and analysis; prior people leadership experience preferred.
• Strong understanding of Accounting and Finance principles with the ability to apply them to the preparation and analysis of financial plans, forecasts and management reports.
• Solid analytical and financial modeling skills, with the ability to analyze moderately complex data sets, identify key drivers of performance and communicate results clearly.
• Demonstrated ability to manage planning and reporting processes, including budgets, forecasts and variance analyses, within established frameworks and timelines.
• Proficiency with financial planning and reporting systems, with experience maintaining existing tools and supporting system enhancements and integrations.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present financial information effectively to managers and business partners.
• Ability to partner with cross-functional stakeholders to gather inputs, explain financial results and support operational and capital decisions.
• Effective people management skills, including coaching, performance feedback and development of senior financial analysts to ensure high-quality deliverables and role readiness.
• Proven ability to manage multiple priorities, meet deadlines and adapt to changing business needs in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong attention to detail, sound judgment and commitment to financial accuracy, internal controls and corporate financial policies.

Job Info

Job Identification: 10004363

Job Category: Finance

Posting Date: 2026-02-12

Apply Before: 2026-02-26T21:44:00+00:00

Job Schedule: Full time

Locations: 1615 Locust St, Des Moines, IA, 50309, US

Business: BHE Renewables, LLC

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