Senior Director of Finance leading financial performance and strategic initiatives for Xcel Energy. Influencing decision-making with integrated financial insights in a regulated environment.
Responsibilities
Acts as the senior-most financial leader for the Business Area, partnering with the Business Area President, Vice Presidents, and enterprise leadership to shape strategy, evaluate tradeoffs, and drive long-term value creation.
Influences strategic and operational decisions through disciplined financial insight, scenario analysis, and enterprise perspective.
Leads proactive, enterprise-minded financial stewardship across the business area, embedding value creation, commercial rigor, and disciplined capital and O&M decision-making into all major initiatives.
Serves as a trusted executive advisor, fostering credibility and influence through deep business understanding, sound judgment, and transparent communication.
Directs, governs, and approves multi-year financial plans, annual budgets, rolling forecasts, and long-range outlooks, ensuring alignment with enterprise strategy and regulatory expectations.
Establishes and continuously improves enterprise grade financial planning processes, including dynamic resource allocation across O&M and Capital Expenditures, to optimize financial performance and risk management.
Holds accountability for forecast integrity, transparency, and executive level readiness, enabling informed decision making by senior leadership and governing bodies.
Provides executive level leadership for regulatory strategy, cost of service support, and expert testimony, ensuring defensible, compliant, and strategically aligned regulatory outcomes.
Leads enterprise scale financial performance management, integrating operational, financial, and risk insights to support executive and Board level decision making.
Oversees comprehensive performance reporting, variance analysis, and trend identification, translating complex financial data into clear, actionable executive insights.
Communicates financial results, risks, opportunities, and business drivers with clarity and authority to Executive Leadership, Financial Performance leadership, and enterprise governance forums, including Operations Council and OPCo Presidents.
Serves as the senior fiduciary authority for the Business Area, ensuring strong financial governance, internal controls, and compliance with corporate policy, regulatory requirements, and ethical standards.
Provides executive oversight of financial operations, financial statement impacts, SOX compliance, and regulatory adherence, proactively identifying and mitigating financial and operational risk.
Leads and develops a high performing finance leadership team, setting clear expectations, modeling enterprise leadership behaviors, and building organizational capability.
Champions a culture of continuous improvement, talent development, and succession planning aligned with enterprise objectives.
Ensures rigorous performance management, coaching, and accountability processes that reinforce results, leadership effectiveness, and professional growth.
Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or related business field required
MBA, CPA, or equivalent advanced credential strongly preferred
Minimum of 10 years progressive financial leadership experience, including significant experience at the senior leadership or executive level
Minimum of 7–10 years of people leadership experience, including leading managers and complex organizations
Demonstrated expert-level knowledge of GAAP, regulated utility finance, Sarbanes Oxley compliance, enterprise financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and executive reporting
Proven ability to design and govern enterprise scale financial policies, controls, and business processes
Demonstrated enterprise business acumen with the ability to influence, advise, and challenge senior executives through clear, concise, and credible communication.
Benefits
Annual Incentive Program
Long Term Incentive
Medical/Pharmacy Plan
Dental
Vision
Life Insurance
Dependent Care Reimbursement Account
Health Care Reimbursement Account
Health Savings Account (HSA) (if enrolled in eligible health plan)
Limited-Purpose FSA (if enrolled in eligible health plan and HSA)
Transportation Reimbursement Account
Short-term disability (STD)
Long-term disability (LTD)
Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Fitness Center Reimbursement (if enrolled in eligible health plan)
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