Senior Corporate Finance and Strategy Analyst | Strategic Finance
- Location
- PHOENIX, AZ
- Work model
- On-Site
- Level
- Senior
- Posted
About this role
Arizona Public Service generates reliable, affordable and clean energy for 2.7 million Arizonans. As the state’s largest and longest-serving energy provider, our more than 6,000 dedicated employees power our vision of creating a sustainable energy future for Arizona. Summary
Are you a forward-thinking finance professional who is energized by enterprise-level challenges, strategic decision support, and cross-functional collaboration? In joining our Strategic Finance organization, you will work on projects and initiatives with the potential to materially influence the Company’s operating and financial plan. This role applies a long-term strategic and financial lens to complex opportunities, helping leaders evaluate growth, risk, affordability, balance sheet strength, and capital allocation decisions across Pinnacle West Capital Corporation, its non-utility subsidiaries, and Arizona Public Service Company. What your day would be like: You are responsible for:
Commercial and Transaction Support: Advise on customer growth, affordability, risk management, asset purchases or sales, transaction pricing, and contract negotiations where Strategic Finance can help secure balanced enterprise outcomes. Analytical Rigor: Develop advanced financial and economic models, scenario analyses, and sensitivities that challenge assumptions and support well-informed management decisions. Strategic Problem Solving: Evaluate complex opportunities and business decisions by connecting financial analysis, operational considerations, and broader strategic implications. Decision-Ready Storytelling: Translate complex analysis into clear recommendations and executive-level materials that enable timely decisions. Enterprise Advisory: Partner with senior leaders to frame decisions through enterprise outcomes, long-term financial implications, and alignment with Company strategy. Project Leadership and Collaboration: Lead special projects from framing through recommendation, working across silos with internal and external partners to align stakeholders, clarify tradeoffs, and deliver high-quality outcomes.
The kinds of people we want to talk to have done many of the following:
Action-Oriented Growth Mindset: Proactive, self-starter, curious, adaptable, and committed to developing the business, financial, and leadership capabilities needed to contribute within Strategic Finance and across the Company over time. Financial and Strategic Acumen: Advanced modeling, forecasting, corporate finance, economic analysis, utility finance, and business operations skills, with the judgment to evaluate tradeoffs and challenge assumptions thoughtfully. Enterprise Perspective: Ability to integrate near-term analysis with broader strategic and financial implications, with a focus on outcomes that support the Company’s mission and objectives. Advisory Experience: Demonstrated ability to advise senior executives, influence decisions, and facilitate two-way communication across business units and leadership teams. Communication Excellence: Strong written and verbal communication skills to articulate complex ideas clearly and persuasively. Collaborative: A team player who builds trust with internal and external partners, works through ambiguity, and helps facilitate communication across silos. Minimum Requirements
Senior Financial Analyst | Strategic Finance
Degree in finance, accounting economics, mathematics or an equivalent combination of education and experience from which comparable knowledge, skills and abilities have been achieved PLUS five (5) years directly related experience in financial analysis, accounting, economic analysis or data analytics in any industry OR five (5) years business operations related experience in the utility or energy services industry. In lieu of degree, an equivalent combination of formal education and experience totally ten (10) years is required. Comprehensive knowledge of finance and economic