The Lead Analyst, Corporate FPA role at Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp. involves shaping the company's consolidated financial outlook by synthesizing cross-commodity and corporate services financial information. The role requires strong analytical skills, experience in corporate finance, and a high degree of autonomy. The Lead Analyst will play a critical enterprise-level role in driving the consolidation and critical evaluation of monthly and quarterly forecasts across all commodity and corporate service FP&A teams.
Requirements
- Drive the consolidation and critical evaluation of monthly and quarterly forecasts across all commodity and corporate service FP&A teams.
- Assess financial drivers, trends, and cross-commodity/corporate service performance dynamics.
- Independently challenge assumptions and identify key risks, sensitivities, and opportunities.
- Synthesize complex cross-FP&A inputs into a structured, executive-ready financial narrative supported by clear visuals and decision frameworks.
- Play a central role in managing the annual budgeting and multi-year planning processes.
- Coordinate enterprise timelines and version control across stakeholders.
- Align planning assumptions across FP&A, Regulatory, Treasury, and Tax.
- Translate diverse inputs into an integrated enterprise narrative.
- Drive the development of monthly and quarterly enterprise reporting packages.
- Analyze variances and articulate forward-looking implications.
- Support preparation of executive and Board-level materials.
- Elevate reporting from descriptive to insight-driven and decision-oriented.
- Translate complex financial data into clear, concise, and visually compelling executive presentations.
- Distill large data sets into key messages, framing financial results in a way that supports strategic decision-making.
- Anticipate executive questions and ensure materials are structured to withstand senior-level scrutiny.
- Develop and maintain robust, driver-based financial models supporting enterprise forecasting.
- Conduct scenario and sensitivity analysis to evaluate financial impacts of evolving assumptions.
- Strengthen modeling transparency, governance, and consistency.
- Establish best practices in analytical frameworks across Corporate FP&A.
- Serve as a central integration point across FP&A teams and corporate finance functions.
- Manage complex workstreams involving multiple stakeholders.
- Operate with a high degree of autonomy and minimal oversight.
- Proactively identify analytical gaps and recommend improvements.
Benefits
- Share purchase/match plan
- Leadership Development Program
- Volunteer paid days off
- Employee Assistance Program
- Achievement fund
- Group Benefit Plan
- Variety of Health & Wellness programs
- Discount and Perks program
