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Executives in Charge of Operational Finance have Issues - Anonymous employee Southern California Edison Employee Review

2.0
Aug 22, 2015
Anonymous employee
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Pros

This once great company is undergoing fundamental change driven by industry, political, and technology pressures and changes. Salaries and employees benefits are still better than market average.

Cons

Executives in charge of Operational Finance (formerly Planning and Performance Reporting) are major part of the problem, not part of the solution. In 2013, Executives in charge of the centralization of a previously distributed finance department created a mess. They severed many strong performers, selected a management team based upon favored but unqualified "yes" people (a.k.a. Lapdogs). Management choices were disastrous and less than two years later half of them were terminated. Recently, in July 2015, the Company has had to downsize the Finance Department again, severing about half the employees (70+) only to post jobs to hire 20 replacements, claiming the new hires are necessary because the fired employees lacked necessary soft skills (e.g., ability to agree with management, ability to work as part of a team). Remaining Finance employees are working crazy hours, morale is terrible, and "survivors" are looking for opportunities to leave.

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