Finance Business Partner Sr Mgr

Job Posting End Date
11-07-2026
Please note the job posting will close on the day before the posting end date.

Job Summary

The Finance Business Partner Senior Manager leads Finance Business Partnering for a major enterprise function, or complex portfolio. This position serves as a trusted financial advisor to operational and functional leaders. The role goes beyond surface-level financial analysis by developing a detailed understanding of how the supported business operates, including its products, platforms, operating processes, cost drivers, priorities, and risks. The role uses that knowledge to connect business decisions with enterprise financial objectives, translate planning assumptions into actionable guidance, challenge assumptions when appropriate, and bring operational insights back into forecasting and performance management processes. Additional duties include governance over significant plans, investments, and performance commitments to strengthen business partnering capability across Finance.

Job Description

What You'll Do:

- Lead finance business partnering for a major enterprise function or complex portfolio, establishing priorities, service expectations, and stakeholder routines.
- Advise business leaders on budgets, forecasts, cost drivers, resource tradeoffs, investment alternatives, and corrective actions; convert complex financial information into clear recommendations.
- Develop and maintain a detailed understanding of the supported business, including its products, platforms, operations, cost structure, performance drivers, strategic priorities, and risks; apply this knowledge to financial analysis and decision support.
- Lead development and review of operating plans, forecasts, scenario analyses, and business cases, including capital and O&M impacts, cash flow implications, and key assumptions.
- Monitor financial and operational performance; investigate underlying business and cost drivers; explain monthly, quarterly, year-to-date, and year-over-year variances; identify emerging risks and opportunities; and coordinate responses with accountable leaders.
- Coordinate finance deliverables across Corporate FP&A, Accounting, Tax, Regulatory, Treasury, Data/Reporting/Systems, and other subject-matter experts to ensure consistent assumptions and reliable outputs.
- Serve as a senior SME and liaison to operating companies on complex financial matters.
- Advise on financial implications of regulatory and operating-company needs, including forecasted test-year scenarios, rate-case analyses as assigned.
- Maintain effective controls, documentation, and data-quality practices for planning, analysis, and reporting activities; escalate significant issues and recommend process improvements.
- Represent Finance in cross-functional forums and communicate recommendations, decisions, and financial implications to management.
- Build Finance Business Partnering capability by establishing portfolio standards, sharing leading practices, facilitating knowledge transfer, and improving consistency across processes and workstreams.

What We're Looking For:

Education requirements are listed below:

- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, Economics, Engineering, or a related field.

Work Experience requirement listed below:

- Nine (9) years of relevant experience in FP&A, accounting, corporate finance, regulatory finance, business operations, or utility finance, including leadership of complex portfolios, major initiatives, processes, or cross-functional workstreams.
- Demonstrated experience advising senior leaders and leading financial planning, forecasting, scenario analysis, performance management, and investment evaluation.

Other:

- Significant experience in, or strong familiarity with, the regulated utility industry, including capital planning, cost-recovery mechanisms, regulatory environments, and operating-company financial performance.
- Advanced proficiency with Microsoft products and deep familiarity with enterprise financial systems, planning tools, reporting platforms, and data architectures; ability to assess control, governance, and data-quality implications.
- Strong strategic and business acumen with the ability to connect operational decisions, financial outcomes, enterprise priorities, and stakeholder impacts.
- Proactive and analytically rigorous, with the willingness to work through complex operational and financial details, challenge assumptions constructively, and translate insights into clear recommendations.
- Ability to evaluate complex issues, balance competing objectives, and make sound recommendations under uncertainty.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including executive-level communication, narrative development, and presentation of recommendations and tradeoffs.
- Strong leadership presence with a demonstrated ability to influence, align, and challenge constructively across organizational boundaries.
- Proven ability to manage multiple high-impact priorities, deadlines, and stakeholder expectations in a fast-paced, high-accountability environment.
- Demonstrated ability to lead organizational or process change, establish standards, transfer knowledge, and influence stakeholders across organizational boundaries.
- Demonstrates the highest standards of ethical behavior, professional judgment, accountability, and stewardship of financial information.
- MBA, CPA, CMA, or other relevant professional certification preferred.

What You’ll Get:

- In addition to a competitive compensation, AEP offers a unique comprehensive benefits package that aims to support and enhance the overall well-being of our employees.

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At AEP, we’re more than just an energy company — we’re a team of dedicated professionals committed to delivering safe, reliable, and innovative energy solutions. Guided by our mission to put the customer first, we strive to exceed expectations by listening, responding, and continuously improving the way we serve our communities. If you're passionate about making a meaningful impact and being part of a forward-thinking organization, this is the company for you!

Compensation Data

Compensation Grade:

SP20-010

Compensation Range:

$136,539.00 - $177,503.00

The Physical Demand Level for this job is: S – Sedentary Work: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally (Occasionally: activity or condition exists up to 1/3 of the time) and/or a negligible amount of force frequently. (Frequently: activity or condition exists from 1/3 to 2/3 of the time) to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time but may involve walking or standing for brief periods of time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally, and all other sedentary criteria are met.

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