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Phoenix, Arizona, Us

Directing the enterprise short- and long-term financial planning within the dynamic energy sector. This includes developing short- and long-range energy and revenue forecasts. Within the financial planning space we are constantly constructing various enterprise-wide scenarios for Sr. Officer alignment and decision making. Lastly, implemented a new internal management consultant org. alongside of our internal LEAN Sigma group.

Phoenix, Arizona, Us

Mainly involved in collaborating with the senior officers on financial and operational strategy, performance, and forecasts. I was responsible for building an internal management consultant group to mitigate costs associated with external consultants. Furthermore, I conducted financial and operational analysis of the various business divisions in an ever-changing electric utility environment. My key achievements for this role had been: • Led annual Capital (>$1.5B), O&M (~$1B), and Fuel (~$1B), budgeting, variance, forecasting for enterprise. • Directed and trained cross-functional FP&A team with keen focus on achieving company financial objectives. • Accelerated overall operational efficiency within financial operations resulting in reducing overhead costs by ~30% as well as increasing employee and customer satisfaction. • Spearheaded a multi-year enterprise-wide cost management effort by utilizing LEAN principles that secured $30M in annual O&M savings. • Oversaw business planning process for 16 internal business divisions to assist in developing strategies within the dynamically changing landscape of the energy markets. • Facilitated the quarterly Officer management accountability meetings on prior business plans. • Supported governmental regulatory filings, in specifics, our SEC filings and rate case engagements.

Phoenix, Arizona, Us

During this tenure, I oversaw new project management office which reported to the Executive Management Team (CFO, COO). PMO was developed to strategize and implement enterprise-wide process initiatives to drive the company's sustainable cost management culture. The benefits I brought during this role were: • Provided insightful direction and guidance to finance and business operations management team to revamp financial / planning processes to drive sustainable cost management. • Drove efficiencies in business planning resulting in downsizing the actual process by 20%.

Phoenix, Arizona, Us

• Revamped the group (with multiple management layers) from scratch aimed at streamlining business operations. • Served as change agent for the T&D business division for developing comprehensive financial/operational operating and capital budgets. • Administered annual operating and capital cash flow worth $600M. • Negotiated strategically important transmission right-of-way renewals while partnering with senior management team of the T&D business division. • Oversaw strategic financial and operational analysis in a dynamically changing landscape that increased solar utilization and SmartGrid rollouts of the business division

Phoenix, Arizona, Us

• Developed and executed a center of excellence group for the finance and accounting department. • Oversaw the enterprise-wide business planning process for the company with a total of 13 business divisional business plans aggregated into one corporate business plan. • Managed the enterprise-wide O&M and Capital budgeting process with $2B annually. • Partnered with business divisions to maintain level O&M / Capital expenditures through multi-years by the identification of financial / operational efficiencies.

Phoenix, Arizona, Us

• Engaged in the development of the enterprise-wise Business Planning Initiative. • Directly involved in the development of the Company’s new centralized Finance & Business Operations model (one of only two employees on the team). • Developed strategic analysis on multiple fossil fuel driven projects (i.e., clean coal analysis, generation management information system, and pollution control systems).

Phoenix, Arizona, Us

• Developed many of the initial procedures of the unit’s economic, industry, and vendor analysis roles. • Engaged in industry and vendor research and analysis for different procurement events. • Developed a departmental-wide financial and regulatory informational classes. • Developed a financial model for union negotiations. • Facilitated a major enterprise-wide waste management strategic procurement initiative. • Facilitated a multi-layered renewable sourcing project. • Facilitated a renegotiation with a major strategic partner due to economic conditions.

Phoenix, Arizona, Us

• Created new calculation logic for our external Standard and Poor’s financial statistics tracking mechanism. • Developed a large part of the internal corporate financial planning module. • Assisted in producing highly scrutinized rate case, resource planning, budget, and long range corporate financial forecasts. • Continuous re-adjustment of many financial variables due to varying situations/environments to obtain updated financial forecasts. • Developed scenarios to deal with complex lease vs. buy analysis including creating a mechanism used for rebalancing equity.• Maintained imputed debt calculations and kept informed on regulatory utility developments. • Developed and maintained budget and monthly monitoring for highly examined shareholder related income and expenses. • Maintained monthly monitoring of Consolidated Company’s deferred tax and permanent tax items.

Phoenix, Arizona, Us

• Perform various economic research and analysis for multiple years / geographic areas. • Engage in industry research and analysis on numerous different industries. • Financial research and analysis (historical/projected) for the purpose of business valuations and mergers & acquisitions. • Prepare supporting financial schedules and charts for litigation support engagements. • Economic damage proceedings, medical malpractice, bankruptcy proceedings, etc.

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