Posting Title

Group Manager for Financial Planning and Analysis – Business Management

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Location

CO - Golden

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Position Type

Regular

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Hours Per Week

40

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Working at NREL

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), located at the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Golden, Colorado is the nation's primary laboratory for research and development of renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies.

Join a team of world-class scientists, engineers, and visionaries dedicated to shaping the world’s energy future through cutting-edge research and innovation. From our vision to our NREL community, we are unique in the research community. We are focused on impact. From our work in basic sciences to systems engineering, analysis, demonstration, and deployment, we are focused on solving market-relevant problems that result in advanced, secure, reliable, and affordable energy systems. We are trusted clean energy leaders, developing cost-saving solutions that make U.S. industries more competitive, and support job creation and economic growth across rural and urban communities.

At NREL, we offer a unique, mission-driven work environment with cutting-edge facilities and multidisciplinary research teams. NREL's environment offers strong partnerships with industry, academia, and other national laboratories, as well as professional development opportunities and a competitive benefits package for employees.

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Job Description

The Group Manager for Financial Planning and Analysis will report to the Director of the Financial Planning and Analysis Office and will lead a group of teams providing financial/business support. The Group Manager will ensure that the business management teams are well trained, adequately staffed, and highly motivated to support the research directorates with all aspects of proactive and insightful financial support. The Group Manager will drive and continue to evolve the research directorate multi-year business planning process while ensuring that research directorate five-year capital plans support and align with NREL’s ten-year research agenda. This position will be expected to work closely with the Group Manager for Business Area Managers to ensure that both groups remain closely coordinated and mutually supportive.

Job duties will include, but are not limited to:

• Leading and inspiring the team of research business management teams with a vision that supports NREL’s vision of transforming energy. Provide strong leadership for multi-functional teams, consisting of exempt and non-exempt staff (includes staff hiring, development, and mentorship). Provide staff with technical advice and guidance related to their respective areas.
• Ensure processes are established and operating effectively to manage and report costs in accordance with NREL and DOE policies. Develop and implement updates to financial planning policies, procedures, and systems relevant to changing business needs and industry practices while ensuring compliance with all contractual requirements, federal regulations, and DOE orders.
• Ensuring policies and procedures are in place where applicable, that they are kept up to date, approved and followed.
• Through effective use of enhanced reporting and systems, making it simpler for NREL researchers to plan and manage their staffing and budgets while making it simpler for the Department of Energy to track and trust NREL financial results.
• Developing the research business management teams to ensure the FP&A office is adequately staffed, well trained, and highly motivated to financially support research directorates with role redundancy via cross training and no single points of failure.
• Driving and continuing to evolve the research directorates’ rolling annual multi-year business planning process.
• Working closely with other OCFO teams to include AR, Procurement, Funding, and Rates Management teams to more tightly integrate and streamline processes with the Directorate Business Management teams.
• Integrating the multi-year directorate financial outlook with the development and execution of the Lab’s annual Indirect Rate Cost Proposal submission and indirect budget development and management process.
• Developing and executing Lab-wide medium to long-term financial plans and models, including conducting scenario analysis and financial simulations to identify material opportunities and risks.
• Improving upon NREL’s new planning processes using Oracle EPM financial planning and people scheduling modules as well as Microsoft Power BI reporting to deliver better proposals and forecast management tools for project managers, as well as better staffing tools and a multi-year picture of evolving research for research staff.
• Leading the analysis of NREL market share and price competitiveness as well as related internal efforts to inform research leadership and staff on these aspects and design improvement initiatives.
• Developing and deploying key performance indicators (KPIs) as part of a broader scorecard for FP&A office performance.

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Basic Qualifications

Bachelor’s Degree and 14-years’ experience in accounting or finance or equivalent related experience. Or, Master’s Degree and 12-years’ experience in accounting or financeor equivalent related experience. Or, PhD and 9-years’ experience in accounting or finance or equivalent related experience. Demonstrated success leading finance teams and managing financial planning organizations.

Eligibility requirements: This position will require access to Controlled Unclassified Information // No foreign dissemination (CUI//NOFORN) and only applicants that are US Citizens at the time of application will be considered in accordance with DOE O 471.7, Controlled Unclassified Information.

* Must meet educational requirements prior to employment start date.

Additional Required Qualifications

• Demonstrated skill in dealing with legal and ethical management issues and practices.
• Extensive knowledge of the issues and best practices related to GAAP, Cost Accounting Standards (CAS), Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR), and the DOE Financial Management Handbook.
• Strong computer and business solutions software skills.
• Excellent organization, project management, budgeting, interpersonal and communication skills.
• Proven problem-solving and negotiation skills. Ability to collaborate with individuals at all levels of the organization.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively lead and direct personnel with diverse skills, work styles and values, both directly and through subordinate management.
• Strong business acumen and financial savvy.
• Ability to develop and explain financial implications and options.
• Very strong analytical, communication, and coaching skills required to listen, coach, solve problems, and manage conflicts in dynamic and stressful environments.
• Strong experience with financial planning and Business Intelligence systems.
• Ability to mine data from various business systems and demonstrate actionable recommendations with excellent presentation skills.
• Previous management, budget development and/or significant leadership in an individual contributor role required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong leadership ability, people skills and emotional intelligence with requisite financial planning skills and experience.
• Working knowledge of federal Cost Accounting Standards (CAS) and Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR).
• Strong skills using PowerPoint, Word, Excel, TEAMs, and Power B.I.
• Experience with functional support, deployment and management of Oracle Hyperion, EPM, and R12 systems.

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Job Application Submission Window

The anticipated closing window for application submission is up to 30 days and may be extended as needed.

Annual Salary Range (based on full-time 40 hours per week)

Job Profile: Manager III / Annual Salary Range: $140,900 - $253,600

NREL takes into consideration a candidate’s education, training, and experience, expected quality and quantity of work, required travel (if any), external market and internal value, including seniority and merit systems, and internal pay alignment when determining the salary level for potential new employees. In compliance with the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, a potential new employee’s salary history will not be used in compensation decisions.

Benefits Summary

Benefits include medical, dental, and vision insurance; short*- and long-term disability insurance; pension benefits*; 403(b) Employee Savings Plan with employer match*; life and accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D) insurance; personal time off (PTO) and sick leave; paid holidays; and tuition reimbursement*. NREL employees may be eligible for, but are not guaranteed, performance-, merit-, and achievement- based awards that include a monetary component. Some positions may be eligible for relocation expense reimbursement. Limited-term positions are not eligible for long-term disability or tuition reimbursement.

* Based on eligibility rules

Badging Requirement

NREL is subject to Department of Energy (DOE) access restrictions. All employees must also be able to obtain and maintain a federal Personal Identity Verification (PIV) card as required by Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 (HSPD-12), which includes a favorable background investigation.

Drug Free Workplace

NREL is committed to maintaining a drug-free workplace in accordance with the federal Drug-Free Workplace Act and complies with federal laws prohibiting the possession and use of illegal drugs. Under federal law, marijuana remains an illegal drug.

If you are offered employment at NREL, you must pass a pre-employment drug test prior to commencing employment. Unless prohibited by state or local law, the pre-employment drug test will include marijuana. If you test positive on the pre-employment drug test, your offer of employment may be withdrawn.

Submission Guidelines

Please note that in order to be considered an applicant for any position at NREL you must submit an application form for each position for which you believe you are qualified. Applications are not kept on file for future positions. Please include a cover letter and resume with each position application.

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