FPA Analyst

Closes: May 11 2025
Starting Range: $65410 to $110421
Full Range: $65410 to $135903

Job Description
An FP&A Analyst is a trusted financial partner/advisor to business units. They understand business activities financial and nonfinancial reporting needs and provide thorough analysis and recommendations that inform decisions. An FP&A Analyst will be the liaison between corporate finance and accounting and the business units they support. They will use their expertise and influence to provide guidance to business unit managers and support company strategies.

• Provides databased insights to management for budget variance analysis and other performance measures.
• Builds knowledge of existing tools and trains others in their use.
• Provides advice on accounting treatment (e.g. capital vs expense).
• Prepares responses to regulatory data requests.
• Develops new budget and financial models/tools to apply to business units.
• Prepares recommendations for annual budgets and monthly forecasts.
• Take primary responsibility for support of planning application(s) and/or major company planning and prioritization efforts.
• Provides education to business units on financial concepts and processes.
• Develops performance measurements gathers data to monitor success and identifies training needs.

• BA/BS degree in Accounting Business Administration Economics Finance Statistics Tax Utility Operations or related field.
• Ability to effectively communicate with multiple levels of management in the organization
• Ability to work with minimal direction
• Analytical and problemsolving skills and the ability to interpret data
• Works well in a team environment and matrix organization
• Excellent oral and written communication skills

• 2 years of related experience
• Experience with regulated utility finance/accounting
• Experience using and building reports in planning tools such as Oracle Hyperion/EPBCS/EPM SAP Tableau Cognos
• Intermediate Excel skills such as pivot tables conditional formulas lookups and data extraction/cleansing formulas

• 5 years of related experience
• Increased depth and/or breadth of business unit partnership
• Proficiency in regulated utility finance/accounting
• Proficiency in planning tools including creation of advanced reports/dashboards

Other combinations of education and experience may be considered.

Hybrid work options are available for this role. The successful candidate will be required to work at our Spokane Washington headquarters at least 3 days per week including Mondays and Tuesdays with an additional day determined by the employee and manager.

To Apply
We encourage you to apply as many of our positions have step progressions to account for an incoming employees various levels of knowledge skills and experience.

Complete an online application and attach your resume and cover letter to your profile. All documents must be attached to your application at the time of submitting your application for review. No documents can be attached after you click Submit.

Benefits
At Avista we believe our employees are essential. Through them we deliver value to our customers and the communities we serve. The physical mental and financial health and wellbeing of our employees and their families are important to us. We are committed to offering a comprehensive total rewards program comprised of an externally competitive internally equitable compensation structure and a benefits package that allows us to retain and attract a diverse engaged and skilled workforce. Our benefits package includes medical dental vision life and disability coverage retirement benefits incentive plans wellness resources timeoff programs and much more. In addition to our total rewards program the Pacific Northwest offers abundant outdoor recreation four distinct seasons and all the amenities and activities an individual or family might be interested in. To learn more please visit our benefits website at screening requirements
Employment is contingent upon the successful completion of a drug test background check and motor vehicle records review.

Avistas Commitment to Equal Opportunity
Avista is a safe inclusive workplace for people of all backgrounds and we are committed to Equal Opportunity Employment. All qualified applicants will be considered regardless of race color religion national origin sex gender identity sexual orientation marital status age sensory mental or physical disability (unless based upon a bona fide occupational qualification) Veteran status or any other classification protected by nondiscrimination laws.

Please view Equal Employment Opportunity Posters provided by OFCCP here. Prior to the next step in the recruiting process we welcome you to inform us confidentially if you require any special accommodations to participate fully in our recruitment process. Avista will make reasonable accommodation to assist a qualified person with a disability in the job application interview process and to perform the essential functions of the job whenever possible where undue hardship would not be created for Avista. Please contact us at if you would like assistance.