The Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A;) is a key member of the Finance leadership team responsible for leading Milton Hydro's enterprise-wide financial planning, budgeting, forecasting and management reporting processes across the regulated utility and its unregulated businesses.

Reporting directly to the Vice President, Finance & Chief Financial Officer, the Manager provides financial leadership and business partnership across the organization, ensuring business leaders have timely, meaningful and actionable financial information to support effective decision-making and accountability.

The role has primary responsibility for consolidated and business-unit budgeting and forecasting across the income statement, balance sheet and cash flow, with particular emphasis on operating, maintenance and administration (OM&A;) expenditures. The Manager works closely with business leaders to develop budgets and forecasts, monitor actual results, understand financial and operational drivers, identify emerging risks and opportunities, and support disciplined management of expenditures.

The Manager also supports strategic initiatives, financial modelling, business cases, and transactions involving Milton Hydro's regulated and unregulated businesses.

KEY DUTIES

Financial Planning, Budgeting & Forecasting

- Lead the annual budget and periodic forecasting processes for Milton Hydro and its subsidiaries, ensuring alignment with corporate objectives, operating plans and financial targets.
- Develop and maintain integrated forecasts covering the income statement, balance sheet and cash flow.
- Coordinate assumptions, timelines and deliverables across Finance and operational business units.




- Lead financial consolidation of business-unit and subsidiary budgets and forecasts.
- Support longer-term financial planning, scenario analysis and sensitivity modelling to assess financial outlook, risks and opportunities.
- Identify emerging financial trends and provide timely updates and recommendations to the CFO and business leaders.

Business Partnership & Financial Management

- Act as a trusted financial partner to business-unit leaders, helping them understand financial performance and effectively manage budgets and expenditures.
- Provide regular financial updates to business units and business lines, including the regulated utility and unregulated businesses.
- Lead monthly and quarterly variance analysis against budget, forecast and prior periods, translating results into explicit business drivers and management actions.
- Maintain a strong focus on OM&A; expenditure management, working with business leaders to monitor actual and committed spending, forecast year-end results and identify potential pressures or savings.
- Establish clear financial accountability and provide business leaders with meaningful information to support expenditure and resource decisions.
- Provide financial analysis and recommendations for operational initiatives, business cases and investment decisions.

Management Reporting & Performance Analysis





- Develop and maintain concise, decision-useful management reporting for the CFO, executive leadership and business-unit leaders.
- Establish and monitor financial and operational Key Performance Indicators that provide early visibility into performance, risks and opportunities.
- Improve the quality and consistency of financial reporting across business units, including reporting for regulated and unregulated operations.
- Support CFO and executive-level reporting and analysis, including financial outlooks and explanations of significant variances.

Regulatory & Accounting Support

- Incorporate applicable Ontario energy regulatory and policy requirements and accounting and tax considerations into budgets, forecasts and financial analysis.
- Support Finance and Regulatory functions with financial information and modelling required for regulatory planning, applications and other OEB-related activities.
- Apply knowledge of the OEB Accounting Procedures Handbook (APH) and Modified International Financial Reporting Standards (MIFRS), where applicable.
- Work collaboratively with Accounting and the Controllership to ensure appropriate alignment between financial planning, management reporting and reported financial results.

Unregulated Businesses, Transactions & Strategic Initiatives

- Provide FP&A; support for Milton Hydro's unregulated businesses, including financial planning, forecasting, performance analysis and management reporting.
- Support business combinations, acquisitions, investments, divestitures and other transactions, including financial modelling, valuation support, due diligence an

📌 Manager, Financial Planning (Milton)
🏢 Milton Hydro Distribution
📍 Milton