Senior Financial Advisor - Financial Planning

at  Hydro One Networks Inc

49402 - Toronto - Regular - Ongoing
Hydro One is proud to be the largest electricity transmission and distribution provider in Ontario, serving nearly 1.4 million customers. We have a long history in the industry with our roots dating back over 110 years to 1906. Since then, we have worked to grow and evolve to meet the changing needs of our customers and communities across Ontario. Today, we’re focused on providing exceptional customer service and ensuring we are building safe communities where we live, work and play.
It’s an exciting time to join the team at Hydro One!

SPECIFIC ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Provide key support to the confidential corporate business planning and budgeting process, including detailed review and analysis of planning assumptions, implementation of regulatory requirements, identification of emerging issues and trends, the development of instruction and guidelines and consolidation of results.
• Utilize existing financial and management systems (in particular BI/BW and SAP) to lead the gathering and consolidation of information to produce a variety of business information such as consolidated internal management reports, external stakeholder reports, cost trends, performance reports and scorecards.
• Provide analysis of the financial results, including impact of new or revised assumptions, compliance with guidelines and variance explanations.
• Review the line of business confidential plan submissions with a focus on issue identification and compliance with instructions and guidelines.
• Provide analysis and report on Line of Business staffing requirements. Ensure that staff levels are consistent with corporate strategies, approval processes, and business plan instructions and guidelines.
• Participate in the detailed reviews of spending proposals by functional areas to ensure financial integrity and consistency within corporate strategy.
• Participate in the review spending proposals submitted as part of the work prioritization approach to ensure effectiveness of the proposed work program spending levels.
• Provide analysis and report on all other inputs into the business planning process, including, but not limited to revenue forecast, tax, depreciation and amortization, financing charges, income taxes and balance sheet accounts.
• Support business planning reporting process to the Board of Directors, Province of Ontario and other stakeholders, including preparation of the confidential corporate business plan document, presentations, briefing notes and other financial planning materials, as required.
• Manage the budget trending process, including consistency with the approved budget and reasonableness.
• Monitor, research and communicate developments in financial planning and analysis.
• Support regulatory requirements, including witnessing, preparation of evidence, development of briefing material, responses to interrogatories and transcript undertakings and general hearing support.

Please refer the Job description for details