{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"9fb8689af6391cea6a7fcdee","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/9fb8689af6391cea6a7fcdee","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/9fb8689af6391cea6a7fcdee","title":"Budget Analyst","description":"As an NRG employee, we encourage you to take charge of your career and development journey. We invite you to explore exciting opportunities across our businesses. You’ll find that our dynamic work environment provides variety and challenge. Your growth is key to our ongoing success—take the lead in shaping your career development, goals and future!\r\nJob Summary:Responsible for supporting plant financial operations by developing and monitoring budgets, forecasts, and cost reports, while ensuring compliance with safety, environmental, and regulatory standards. Collaborates with cross-functional teams to provide financial insights, manage assets, and drive continuous improvement in business planning and performance.\r\nEssential Duties/Responsibilities:Include, but are not limited to the following:\r\nSupports and emphasizes importance of safety and environmental programs and ensures regulatory compliance\r\nDevelops and executes plans to accomplish development, regular updating, and monitoring of the Plant budget and cost forecasts\r\nUnderstands current and historical financial data\r\nWorks closely with Business Manager, Engineering, Plant Managers and Project Managers on Routine and Project cost tracking\r\nProvides appropriate information, recommendations, and guidance to department personnel to obtain the necessary input to support the budget development and monitoring process\r\nCreates documents, including reports, memos, graphs, charts, tables, etc\r\nReviews and provides input on changes in the original budget development plan\r\nAbility to find cost efficiencies and savings\r\nCoordinates monthly variance analysis, reviews results, reconciles actual costs with budget/forecasts, summarizes variance explanations/forecasts, and distribute accurate data to Business Manager and Plant Manager with minimal direction\r\nPrepares journal entries for corporate accounting\r\nPrepares monthly, quarterly and year-end accruals with precision\r\nAnalyze financial statements and market trend with minimal direction at the request of department management\r\nUnderstands creation/close out of work orders and purchase requisitions in SAP\r\nUnderstands business processes and their financial implication/impact to the Plant and Company\r\nGenerates and submits budget exception reports annually\r\nEnsures all Company resources are utilized in a cost-effective manner, estimates resource requirements, monitors expenditures, and reports on performance of assigned area\r\nCoordinates with Corporate Accounting on the creation of new assets and retirement of old asset (includes working with Engineering Department on Projects that effect asset tracking)\r\nWork with Business Manager to track and manage the Plant Asset Inventory Log\r\nWork with Business Manager with the development and updating of the Plant Business Plan and 5-year outlook\r\nWork with Corporate Accounting on taxation reviews\r\nDemonstrates employee involvement, innovative thinking, adaptation to change, responsible risk taking, customer focus, and continuous improvement\r\nEnsures development and implementation of assigned area goals, objectives and initiatives\r\nPromotes productivity and teamwork with open communication, timely decision making, and use of personal leadership skills to set high standards of performance\r\nRecognizes problems and is proactive in helping to resolve them\r\nWorking Conditions:Normal office environment and/or power plant environment\r\nWork overtime and non-standard working hours as required\r\nRequires 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