Business Process & Systems Consultant

Xcel Energy (NASDAQ: XEL) is a leading energy provider and Fortune 500 company, dedicated to serving millions of electricity and natural gas customers across eight states: Minnesota, Colorado, Wisconsin, Michigan, North Dakota, South Dakota, New Mexico and Texas. We make energy work better for our customers, helping them thrive every day. That means always raising the bar - delivering better service and providing more reliable, resilient, and sustainable energy. 

Xcel Energy is a place where you’ll have opportunities to grow, expand your skills, and help lead the clean energy transition. We offer meaningful rewards, recognition, and support to help you build your career and make an impact - both on the job and beyond. Most importantly, it means you’ll be joining a company that knows employees are the driving force behind its success and is committed to helping you be your best.

 

Xcel Energy supports a hybrid work model to enable collaboration and flexibility. Many roles are expected to work onsite three days per week (Tuesday–Thursday); however, work location expectations vary based on role, team, and business needs.

 

Position Summary

A self-directed position that contributes to departmental and business unit goals by analyzing, designing, implementing, and supporting business processes and technology solutions. Provide oversight, guidance, leadership and mentoring in the implementation of systems and processes. Support business activities by building relationships, determining business needs, analyzing process improvements opportunities, defining business requirements, and implementing innovative solutions.

Essential Responsibilities

• Processing: Serve as oversight of system administration for financial and accounting systems. Tasks include primary point of contact for training, technical support, and problem resolution. Responsibility includes making sure all monthly, quarterly, and yearly system processes run successfully. Serve as a liaison between system business users/owners and IT support.
• Reporting: Oversee & support development & maintenance of reports and related procedures to support corporate, accounting, and financial processes and goals, including month end close and regulatory reporting. Work with key stakeholders to support accounting processes and financial reporting by enabling accounting and financial staff to access data through identification or development of system-generated reports.
• Guidance: Contribute to departmental and business unit strategic and operational goals by engaging management, customers, vendors, and other stakeholders to analyze, design, implement and support business processes and technology solutions. Includes facilitating discussions to identify, document, validate, and analyze business requirements, designing innovative solutions, and making recommendations that support departmental goals.
• Enhancements: Lead projects which develop and enhance use of financial system functionality. Prepare business and financial justification for projects. Lead project team to ensure that projects are successfully implemented, and that appropriate user acceptance testing is performed

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Business Information Systems, Computer Science/Information Technology, Accounting, Finance, Business or related area or equivalent experience.
• Four to six or more years of experience in finance, accounting, IT, Computer Science, Information Systems or related area.
• Preferred Qualifications: Master's Degree or equivalent certification. For example, CPA, CMA, CFA etc.
• Advisory firm, investment banking, public accounting, and/or other relevant experience
• Intermediate experience using SQL, able to build reports and troubleshoot issues.

Preferred Experience

• Preferred experience with applications such as PowerPlan, SAP S4, and PowerApps.

 

Our culture is grounded in shared values and employee commitments that guide how we work, support one another, and grow together.

Our Values

Connected, Committed, Trustworthy, Safe

Our Employee Commitments

• Work that makes a difference
• A team you can count of
• Opportunities to grow
• Rewards that help you thrive

 

Xcel Energy provides job applicants reasonable accommodations for disabilities throughout the application process. If you are in need of an accommodation to complete the application process, now or at any time in the future, please complete the Applicant Accommodation Request Form. 

Non-Bargaining

 

The anticipated starting base pay for this position is: $84,900.00 to $120,566.66 per year

 

This position is eligible for the following benefits: Annual Incentive Program, Medical/Pharmacy Plan, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account, Health Care Flexible Spending 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), Tuition reimbursement, Transit programs, Employee recognition program, Pension, 401(k) plan, Paid time off (PTO), Holidays, Volunteer Paid Time Off (VPTO), Parental Leave

 

Benefit plans are subject to change and Xcel Energy has the right to end, suspend, or amend any of its plans, at any time, in whole or in part.

In any materials you submit, you may redact or remove age-identifying information including but not limited to dates of school attendance and graduation.  You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information.

 

Deadline to Apply: 11/12/26

 

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Accessibility Statement

Xcel Energy endeavors to make https://www.xcelenergy.com and https://jobs.xcelenergy.com accessible to any and all users. If you are in need of an accommodation to complete the application process, now or at any time in the future, please complete the Applicant Accommodation Request Form. For any other application related questions, including application follow-ups or technical issues, please use our Recruiting Assistance, Electra, for assistance. Electra can be found in the lower right-hand corner of our Xcel Energy Careers site.