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Rocky Mountain Institute Financial Analyst, FP&A Business Partner in Boulder, Colorado
Job Description:
Finance Business Partner
Are you interested in working with financial data and passionate about energy transformation and climate action?Do you enjoy problem solving, financial reporting, and analyzing data in order to drive better decision making? If yes, then join RMI's Finance Team!
Position Overview
RMI is looking for a Finance Business Partner. In this role, you be fully immersed in RMI financial data,and will be part of a team providing senior leadership with the analysis and information they need to optimizeprogram financial performance and make major financial, operational,and strategic decisions.
To thrive in this position, you should haveskills in data interpretation,strategic financial analysis,problem solving, and strong communication. Together with the Senior Manager and the wider Financeteam, you will be responsible fordrivingthe annual budgeting and monthly forecasting processes, and for optimizing financial performance.
This position reports to the Senior Manager of Financial Planning and Analysis and willwork closely with leadership in a portfolio of Programs at RMI to understand their unique financial questions and help them to execute RMI's core mission.
Key Responsibilities
Business Partnering
The Finance Business Partner will provide critical business support to program leadership and operations and to the CFO.
Develop a deep understanding of the strategy of each program within your portfolio and how each uniquely operates and measures success.
Establish relationships and facilitate monthly meetings with program leadership to present the financial results and status of the programand help them better understand and take ownership of their financial health.Review and monitorfinancial results, budget variances, business performance metrics and trends,and forecast funding and hiring outlook.
Work collaboratively with program leadership to identify roadblocks to progress and potential solutions.
Work with Project Managers to help them develop budgets for Projects and monitor the financial performance throughout the lifetime of Projects.
Strategic Analysis
Develop innovative and impactful analyses, tools, processes and procedures to facilitate and monitor business performance.
Provide strategic analysis, actionable insights, training, guidance and recommendations to ensure targets are achieved. Focus on strategic levers to drive performance through evidence-based decision making.
Identify key strategic opportunities and challenges within each program and common across the Institute.
Work with leadership to balance budgets and manage cost and funding forecasts. Assist with optimizing hiring and spend against grants and other funding.
Perform ad hoc business case analysis to support decision making, includingidentifying key drivers, benefits, sensitivities and risks, accounting and fiscal implications. Make recommendations to improve our position in each case.
Budgeting / Forecasting / Financial Reporting
Drive the annual budget process for your portfolio of programs. Support an efficient and effective planning and forecasting process that produces accurate, achievable plans and forecasts, including setting targets, communicating assumptions, coordinating budget preparation, and challenging submissions.
Assist with the design of reporting and metrics to help programs meet budgets and answer critical financial and operational questions.Prepare monthly/quarterly decks for presentation and review with programs of financial performance.
Build ad-hoc reports in Adaptive Insights to address needs from Program Operations Leads, Project Managers, and Managing Directors.
Elevate the FP&A Function
This role will contribute to business model and data thought leadership within RMI.
Contribute ideas and continually improve the quality, scalability, and consistency of program reporting, metric , analysis, planning, and relevant processesto improve the effectiveness and efficiency of FP&A for the organization.Simplify wherever possible.
Assist with optimization of allocation calculations, project costing, and other methodologies that affect financial results.
Document and conduct new process and new user training on Adaptive Insights.