Associate, Financial Planning & Analysis
Creative Energy is recognized as a leader in innovative energy solutions, specializing in sustainable district energy systems across North America. The Associate in Financial Planning & Analysis will be responsible for building and maintaining financial models to support various organizational functions, ensuring accuracy and transparency in financial metrics for decision-making and regulatory compliance.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain robust financial models to support budgeting, forecasting, long-term planning, capital investment analysis, and scenario evaluation for District Energy Systems
- Build models that are scalable, auditable, and clearly structured, with well-documented assumptions and logic
- Translate operational and asset-level inputs into financial outputs and insights for business units across the company
- Perform sensitivity and scenario analysis to assess the financial impact of key drivers, risks, and asset performance assumptions
- Design, calculate, and maintain key performance indicators (KPIs) for company assets, including financial, operational, and return-based metrics
- Track asset performance against budgets, forecasts, and approved business cases, and identify key drivers of variance
- Support the development of standardized asset-level KPI frameworks and dashboards in collaboration with Operations
- Ensure consistency of asset KPIs across financial models, management reporting, and regulatory submissions
- Maintenance of the corporate model and quarterly enterprise wide valuations
- Assist in the development, maintenance, and support of regulatory financial models, including rate applications, revenue requirement models, and supporting schedules
- Work closely with Regulatory Affairs, Corporate Development and Accounting to ensure alignment with regulatory frameworks, approved methodologies, and filing requirements
- Support Corporate Development in model outputs, explanations, and supporting documentation suitable for regulatory submissions and information requests
- Support in responses to regulator and stakeholder questions related to financial models, assumptions, and asset performance metrics
- Partner with Corporate Development, Accounting, and Operations to ensure consistency across financial models, asset KPIs, budgets, forecasts, and actual results
- Apply best practices in model design, documentation, version control, and governance
- Identify opportunities to improve modeling standards, KPI definitions, templates, and efficiency across the organization
- Support ad-hoc financial analysis and special projects as required
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, Business or a related field
- 1–3 years of experience in financial modeling, FP&A, corporate development, asset analytics, corporate finance, or consulting
- Advanced proficiency in Excel; experience with Power BI or other analytical tools as well as exposure to AI tools and automation platforms, including building and applying AI agents, workflow automations using AI tools, is an asset
- Strong understanding of financial statements, cash flow modeling, asset-level economics, valuation, and capital analysis
- Ability to clearly explain complex models, KPIs, and assumptions to both financial and non-financial stakeholders
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- High attention to detail and data integrity
- Ability to connect asset performance and strategic initiatives to financial outcomes
- Clear, structured communication
- Ability to manage multiple models, KPIs, and priorities simultaneously
- Experience supporting regulated environments (utilities, infrastructure, energy, or similar) is strongly preferred
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits package, including an RRSP matching program at 5%.
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