Director of FP&A

Responsibilities

• Strategic Financial Planning & Analysis
• Lead annual budgeting, long-range planning, quarterly forecasting, and monthly performance reporting processes for NSE and its subsidiaries.
• Develop and maintain financial models supporting community solar projects, and corporate initiatives.
• Evaluate business performance against plan and provide actionable recommendations to improve profitability and cash flow.
• Partner with executive leadership to translate operational performance into financial outcomes and strategic actions.
• Community Solar Finance Leadership
• Serve as the primary finance business partner for Community Solar operations and customer acquisition teams.
• Analyze subscriber acquisition costs, retention trends, credit performance, project profitability, and portfolio economics.
• Along with Community Solar staff, monitor key commercial metrics including subscription levels, discount rates, customer churn, and collections performance.
• Develop reporting frameworks that enable proactive management of community solar performance across markets.
• Evaluate strategic growth initiatives, pricing strategies, and operational investments.
• AI & Finance Transformation Leadership
• Lead the development and execution of an AI roadmap for FP&A and business finance functions.
• Identify opportunities to leverage AI, machine learning, predictive analytics, and automation across forecasting, reporting, and decision support processes.
• Implement AI-enabled forecasting techniques to improve accuracy of revenue, cash flow, subscriber growth, and operating expense projections.
• Work on implementing or upgrading commercial FP&A/CPM platforms (e.g., Planful, Anaplan, Adaptive Insights/Workday Adaptive, OneStream, Vena); includes requirements gathering, chart of accounts mapping, workflow design, and UAT.
• Drive automation of recurring reporting, variance analysis, KPI monitoring, and management dashboards.
• Partner with Business Operations, and business leaders to establish scalable data governance and analytics infrastructure.