Senior Principal Financial Consultant

Job Title: Senior Principal Financial Consultant
Location: Oakland, CA
Duration: August 4, 2025 -- December 31, 2025
Pay Rate: $100/hr. W2

Job Description:

Looking for Sr. Principal Consultant within Finance Department / Business Finance or working on major Financial related strategic projects should be very experienced working with any UTILITY /TELECOM financial specifics such as NEIE / EIE / Capital categorizations of cost, where to find cost data, how these breakout across the entire org, how to run advanced analytics on them, etc.; needs Financial forecasting and advanced data analytics experience (SAP, SQL, PowerBI, Python).
Job Responsibilities:

• Evaluate enterprise performance and provide data-driven insights that lead to actionable recommendations.
• Frame analytic approaches and lead quantitative analyses that will yield critical answers to key questions.
• Uses existing financial models and/or develops new models for analysis and reporting.
• Contributes to establishing standards and drives improvement within existing processes and develops new processes as needed.
• Provides recommendations to senior management (up to and including SVP/ EVP) across functions to drive and influence planning, operations efficiency and decision making.
• May manage cross-functional projects or initiatives.
• May act as a team lead and provide direction to less experienced employees.
• Leads special projects and initiatives as assigned.
• Interacts and consults with multiple departments and business partners.
• Drives change in the organization and be a champion of company initiatives as appropriate.
• Enrich company data through external and public sources.
• Identify opportunities for targeted, cost-effective resource (savings) acquisition.
• Conduct trend and sensitivity analyses.

Qualifications:
Minimum:

• Bachelor s degree in Finance, Accounting or job-related discipline or equivalent experience
• Requires a minimum of six years total of accounting, financial, or business-related experience, including advanced analytical experience; preference for experience in management consulting or investment banking
• Minimum 4 years previous experience at any Utility/Telecom domain, preferably in Finance department or Business Finance working on financial forecasting, statistical modeling, and/or advanced data analytics

Highly Desired:

• Masters Degree in Business Administration or equivalent experience
• Job-related experience, 8 years
• Utility industry experience
• Experience in management consulting or investment banking
• CPA-Certified Public Accountant certification
• Well versed with Python/SAS to build descriptive predictive models that enrich, expand, and allow a deeper understanding of data analyses and solutions
• Use of interactive data visualization tools, such as Tableau and Power BI, to present results in a compelling manner
• Data-oriented personality
• Ability to synthesize the requests from management at all levels
• Capability to be a creative, innovative problem solver - but using simple ideas
• Ability to work full-time in an office and remote environment; physically able to sit/stand at a computer and work in front of a computer screen for significant portions of the workday
• Develop KPIs/KRIs wherever needed to provide an initial view of performance/risks.

Strong verbal and written communication skills in English