Job Title: Site Financial Operations Manager
Overview: The Site Financial Operations Manager will provide leadership and strategic direction in accounting, budgeting, management reporting, cost control, and financial decision-making to support the operations and maintenance budget at Southern Nuclear’ s Plant Farley. Reporting to Corporate, this role may also serve as a key member of Farley’s senior leadership team, supporting the Site Vice President.
Key Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or a related field is required.
- Proven ability in breaking down barriers, forming relationships, and building effective teams through team building and development.
- Minimum of five years of experience in financial and accounting disciplines, including financial planning and analysis, managerial reporting, and budgeting. Preferably 7-10 years of experience.
- Comprehensive understanding and application of accounting principles.
- Familiarity with the FERC system of accounts, basic public utility operations, and regulatory utility ratemaking concepts is highly preferred.
- Demonstrated excellence in operational accounting, budgeting, and cost control, ideally within nuclear, generation, transmission, distribution, construction, or manufacturing sectors.
- Understanding of the Southern Company business model and Alabama Power ratemaking mechanism is strongly preferred.
- Ability to bring consensus and buy-in among individuals with differing views and agendas.
- Strong influence skills, capable of impacting individuals outside of formal reporting relationships, including peers and senior management.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to effectively convey information across all organizational levels.
- Strategic thinker with the ability to tactically implement, innovate, and make timely decisions.
- Proven ability to manage and prioritize multiple assignments and lead teams to produce timely results.
- Experience in utilizing management financial reports to translate complex financial information and trends into concise insights.
Major Responsibilities:
- Provide primary oversight for the O&M Budget, ensuring compliance with fleet financial policies, processes, and standards.
- Engage with and provide financial direction to various management levels, including executives, on accounting, budgeting, and other financial matters. Actively participate in Farley’s senior leadership team.
- Oversee the development, approval, and execution of Farley’s O&M budget to ensure regulatory compliance, alignment with strategic objectives, and support from SNC senior leadership.
+ Ensure efficient and effective annual budget development and analysis in line with SNC fleet standards, challenging assumptions as necessary.
+ Ensure budget execution, including cost categorization, aligns with SNC fleet standards.
+ Implement best practices supporting fleet goals, schedules, and processes.
+ Monitor departmental management and accountability for spending, providing meaningful feedback as needed.
- Lead Farley’s O&M cost analysis and monthly re-projection process. Collaborate with the corporate reporting group to develop management reports that facilitate prudent cost-related decisions by Farley’s line organizations.
- Foster a culture of excellence in optimizing station costs in relation to departmental and company strategic plans.
- Utilize tools and relationships to drive strategic and innovative methods to achieve financial goals.
- Prioritize the development of self and team through feedback, development plans, talent profiles, and other tools to emphasize the importance of development.
- Serve as a site and fleet peer to other leaders, offering feedback, best practices, and consultation to enhance the company’s financial performance.
- Prioritize crucial conversations and other communication techniques to align with peer networks, including:
+ SNC cost owner relationships/knowledge
+ Monthly reports and oversight meetings
+ Peer team best practice and more.
Southern Nuclear , a subsidiary of Southern Company (NYSE: SO), is a leader among the nation’s nuclear energy facility operators and an innovator in advanced nuclear technologies. Southern Nuclear is an essential part of Southern Company’s energy portfolio, operating over 8,200 MW across eight nuclear energy units in Alabama and Georgia at the Joseph M. Farley Nuclear Plant near Dothan, Ala., the Edwin I. Hatch Nuclear Plant near Baxley, Ga., and the Alvin W. Vogtle Electric Generating Plant near Waynesboro, Ga.
The company recently achieved commercial operation on Vogtle Units 3&4, representing an historic achievement for the nuclear industry and the country. Vogtle Units 3&4 are the first new nuclear units to reach commercial operation and be built in the United States in the last three decades. Southern Nuclear is a recognized leader in the industry in nuclear and fuel innovation, having been the first to deploy Accident Tolerant Fuels and winning over 10 consecutive Top Innovative Practice (TIP) Awards and eight EPRI awards.
For more than 40 years, Southern Nuclear has operated nuclear energy facilities at the highest levels of safety and reliability, generating carbon-free electricity for millions of homes and businesses. The company’s headquarters is in Birmingham, Ala.
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Southern Company (NYSE: SO ) is a leading energy provider serving 9 million customers across the Southeast and beyond through its family of companies. Providing clean, safe, reliable and affordable energy with excellent service is our mission. The company has electric operating companies in three states, natural gas distribution companies in four states, a competitive generation company, a leading distributed energy solutions provider with national capabilities, a fiber optics network and telecommunications services. Through an industry-leading commitment to innovation, resilience and sustainability, we are taking action to meet customers' and communities' needs while advancing our goal of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Our uncompromising values ensure we put the needs of those we serve at the center of everything we do and are the key to our sustained success. We are transforming energy into economic, environmental and social progress for tomorrow. Our corporate culture has been recognized by a variety of organizations, earning the company awards and recognitions that reflect Our Values and dedication to service. To learn more, visit www.southerncompany.com .
Southern Company invests in the well-being of its employees and their families through a comprehensive total rewards strategy that includes competitive base salary, annual incentive awards for eligible employees and health, welfare and retirement benefits designed to support physical, financial, and emotional/social well-being. This position may also be eligible for additional compensation, such as an incentive program, with the amount of any bonus/awards subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable incentive plan(s). A summary of the benefits offered for this position can be found here https://seo.nlx.org/southernco/pdf/SOCO-Benefits.pdf . Additional and specific details about total compensation and benefits will also be provided during the hiring process.
Southern Company is an equal opportunity employer where an applicant's qualifications are considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other basis prohibited by law.
Job Identification: 14193
Job Category: Accounting & Auditing
Job Schedule: Full time
Company: Southern Nuclear
