Natalia Woodward is vice president, Operational Finance at Southern California Edison, one of the largest electric utilities in the country. She is responsible for strategic finance functions at both the corporate and operating unit levels, including planning, forecasting and reporting activities.
Previously, Woodward served as vice president of Financial Planning and Analysis for SCE. Woodward was responsible for financial forecasting and analysis, consolidated O&M and capital analysis, and regulatory reporting on topics such as cost of capital, revenue requirements and depreciation. Prior to that, she served as vice president and treasurer for SCE.
She originally joined SCE in 2003 in Risk Control and has since held a variety of leadership roles in finance at SCE, Edison International and Edison Mission Energy.
Before her Edison career, Woodward held various financial positions with Allegheny Energy, Merrill Lynch and Dime Savings Bank. She also was a teaching assistant at the University of California, Davis and was a staff economist with the U.S. Department of Labor.
Woodward earned her bachelor’s degree in mathematics from UCLA and her master's degree in economics from UC Davis.