October 16, 2025
Electric Energy Jobs

Financial Analyst III

Organization:
Chesapeake Utilities Corporation
Region:
Canada, Delaware, Dover
End of contest:
January 14, 2026
Type:
Full time
Category:
Financial analyst
Description

What you'll be working on  

Financial Planning and Analysis:

  • Prepares consolidated summary presentations for senior management's review: including monthly financial summary results, employee presentations, forecast reports.
  • Supports the production of a monthly reporting package with variance analysis against prior year, budget, and forecast, including operating expense and/or gross margin analyses, projections, and reports
  • Assists with preparing and reviewing feasibility studies for capital investments.
  • Performs detailed analysis of cost allocations and report on changes and trends from budget and period-over-period results.
  • Creates and analyzes moderately complex monthly, quarterly, and annual reports and ensure financial information has been recorded accurately and completely.
  • Performs moderately complex financial forecasting, financial modeling and trend analysis.
  • Captures and reports key performance indicators, highlight notable trends and analyze causes of unexpected variances.
  • Completes special financial studies, e.g. cost of service studies, return on equity, capital structure, and depreciation.
  • Understands the primary drivers for payroll variances, including changes in allocations (capital vs expense), changes in headcount or related vacancies, and rate differentials.
  • Assists in reviewing accounting transactions for financial accuracy

Business Unit Growth & Support:

  • Provides leadership, training, and support to Financial Analysts on more difficult and complex assignments
  • Assists management with merger and acquisition proforma and analysis.
  • Supports preparation of Rate Case filings, specific to revenues and expenses.
  • Supports the development of strategic plan, budgets, performance indicators, and target benchmarks.

Stakeholder Communication:

  • Responsible for communication with Managers, Directors, and Senior Staff members.
  • Conducts thorough research of historical financial data to analyze trends to support executive leadership decisions.
  • Partners and liaises with operations and corporate functions to collect the individual pieces of data and information required for filings and/or reports.
  • Assists accounting with understanding budgeted and forecasted expenses to understand drivers for variances and the need for accruals.

Process Improvement:

  • Continuously identify identifies and implements improvements to financial processes and reporting, enhancing efficiency, accuracy, and decision support.
  • Drives best practices within financial planning and analysis areas.
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Contact

Chesapeake Utilities Corporation

909 Silver Lake Boulevard

Dover

Delaware United States

www.chpk.com