Lead Analyst, Corporate FPA

Lead Analyst, Corporate FPA

At Liberty Utilities in Litchfield Park, Arizona, United States, LU Canada Corp. is seeking a Lead Analyst, Corporate FPA. Our purpose is sustaining energy and water for life, and it is demonstrated in everything we do as a business, and as an employee team.

At Liberty, we hire passionate people who care about doing the right thing for our customers. We are entrepreneurial, creative, and outcome-focused. Here, your natural talent and achievements will flourish in an inclusive environment of teamwork, trust and continuous learning. We are always pursuing excellence to exceed our ambitions goals, rewarding both the goal outcome and how we achieve it.

Reporting to the Director, FP&A, the Lead Analyst, Corporate FPA plays a critical enterprise-level role in shaping the company's consolidated financial outlook. This position operates at the center of enterprise financial coordination across all commodities and corporate service functions. This role synthesizes cross-commodity and corporate services financial information into a cohesive enterprise forecast and executive-ready narrative. The Director relies on this individual as a highly independent analytical partner capable of complex modeling, challenging assumptions, and elevating the rigor of enterprise planning and reporting. This is a high-visibility role with exposure to leadership.

Accountabilities include:

• Drive the consolidation and critical evaluation of monthly and quarterly forecasts across all commodity and corporate service FP&A teams.
• Assess financial drivers, trends, and cross-commodity/corporate service performance dynamics.
• Independently challenge assumptions and identify key risks, sensitivities, and opportunities.
• Synthesize complex cross-FP&A inputs into a structured, executive-ready financial narrative supported by clear visuals and decision frameworks.
• Play a central role in managing the annual budgeting and multi-year planning processes.
• Coordinate enterprise timelines and version control across stakeholders.
• Align planning assumptions across FP&A, Regulatory, Treasury, and Tax.
• Translate diverse inputs into an integrated enterprise narrative.
• Drive the development of monthly and quarterly enterprise reporting packages.
• Analyze variances and articulate forward-looking implications.
• Support preparation of executive and Board-level materials.
• Elevate reporting from descriptive to insight-driven and decision-oriented.
• Translate complex financial data into clear, concise, and visually compelling executive presentations.
• Distill large data sets into key messages, framing financial results in a way that supports strategic decision-making.
• Anticipate executive questions and ensure materials are structured to withstand senior-level scrutiny.
• Develop and maintain robust, driver-based financial models supporting enterprise forecasting.
• Conduct scenario and sensitivity analysis to evaluate financial impacts of evolving assumptions.
• Strengthen modeling transparency, governance, and consistency.
• Establish best practices in analytical frameworks across Corporate FP&A.
• Serve as a central integration point across FP&A teams and corporate finance functions.
• Manage complex workstreams involving multiple stakeholders.
• Operate with a high degree of autonomy and minimal oversight.
• Proactively identify analytical gaps and recommend improvements.

Education and experience required:

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related discipline.
• 5-8+ years of progressive experience in corporate finance, strategic FP&A, investment banking, equity research, transaction advisory, or other highly analytical environments.
• CPA, CFA, or MBA required.
• Prior experience in analytical roles such as corporate development, equity research, corporate finance, FP&A, and transaction services.
• Experience managing multiple initiatives in a fast-paced corporate environment.
• Strong financial modeling skills, including developing/understanding driver-based three-statement models.
• Comfort with or willingness to learn financial systems.
• Willingness to roll up sleeves and problem-solve.
• High attention to detail.
• Willingness to work long hours during peak periods.
• Comfort with ambiguity and an approach to problems based on first principles.
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal skills.

Compensation Data: Full base salary range $110,000.00- $135,000.00 per year. Liberty considers several factors when extending an offer, including but not limited to, the role and responsibilities, a candidate's work experience, education, training and skills, and geographic location.

Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp. is a growing renewable energy and utility company with over $15 billion of assets across North America and internationally. For more than 30 years, Algonquin has demonstrated an unwavering commitment to delivering clean energy and water solutions. Through our operating business (Liberty), we provide regulated electricity, water, and natural gas utility services to over 1 million customer connections, primarily in North America. And, our growing portfolio of clean, renewable wind, solar, hydro and thermal power generation facilities represent over 3 GW of renewable generation capacity in operation and under construction.

What we offer:

• Company funded Pension program
• 401k with Company match
• Full insurance benefits (health/dental/vision/life)
• Collaborative environment with a genuine flexible working policy
• Share purchase/match plan
• Defined Contribution savings plan
• Top Talent Program
• Volunteer paid days off
• Employee Assistance Program
• Achievement fund

We are focused on building a diverse and inclusive workforce. If you are excited about this role and are not certain you meet all the qualification requirements, we encourage you to apply to further investigate the opportunity. We are an equal opportunity employer and value each person's unique background, diversity, experiences, perspectives and talents. Full participation of all employees in a safe, healthy and respectful environment is key to individual and company success. We are committed to fully utilizing the abilities of all of our employees and expect each of our employees to honor this commitment in their daily responsibilities.