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We have an exciting opportunity as a Lead Program Analyst, Project Controls on our amazing Project Controls team.  In this role, the Lead Program Analyst is responsible for providing leadership and oversight for the developing, programming, and maintaining of Power BI Reports, to report on the performance of the Operations organization with a focus on Transmission and Engineering organizations, to ensure timely and efficient monitoring and analysis of project costs, trends, schedules and transmission and engineering services.

In addition, responsible for providing direct supervisory duties and direction to facilitate developing visual reports, dashboards and KPI scorecards using Power BI Desktop, connecting to various data sources, importing data, and transforming data to be utilized for Business Intelligence. Must exhibit excellence in analytical thinking for translating data into informative visuals and reports as well as perform compliance reviews of data for validation of business requirements.

The role is based in Hartford, CT or Westwood, MA.

Essential Functions: 

• Provides oversight, leadership, and direction over direct reports over the analyst team in all three states the company operates within.

• Effectively communicates and coordinates with transmission and distribution project managers, project engineers, procurement, planner/schedulers, and other project team members on reporting related matters.

• Works within Transmission and Engineering Project Controls for the development of Power BI Reports, for reporting on the overall effectiveness and performance of internal and external organizations, pulling information from various systems such as Maximo, Power Plan, Access and Oracle Primavera and transforming the data into Power BI desktop tools.

• Works with Transmission and Distribution Engineering, Project Planning and Scheduling, Project Management, Operations, Contract Administration, Procurement, Information Technology, to gather requirements for development of Power BI Reports, in alignment with corporate goals and strategies. 

• Gather verbal requirements from business users in meetings and implement programming and development of PowerBI reports as required to support the need of the end users.

• Develops, publishes, and schedules Power BI Reports as per the business requirements.  Able to properly understand the business requirements and develop efficient data models based on the described scope and need. 

• Responsible for facilitating the development of a variety of complex reports in support of Eversource’s project initiating, planning, scheduling, contracting, executing, controlling, compliance and close-out initiatives within the Transmission and Engineering organizations. 

• Responsible for overseeing and directing the development of Power BI Reports to report out on key Transmission & Engineering metrics including Contracted Spend, Schedule Performance, Resource Loading, Risk Management, Project Productivity, Change Order Management, Subcontracted Vendor Performance, Internal and External Commercial Performance, and other key metrics that will continue to drive efficiency and transparency for execution of the work. 

• Facilitates the development of custom visuals for Power BI for executive and leadership use in driving decision making.

• Creates internal and external engineering project level KPIs and project statistics reports to recommend action or to guide decision making driving performance improvement.  Establishes new reporting formats and templates in compliance with company and external stakeholder requirements.

• Ability to be available to support storm (ERP) events as required. This position will be supporting the Resource branch across the tri-state area and will need to develop the required storm supports to track internal and external contractors and FTE’s and vehicles.

Technical Knowledge/Skills/Education

• Proficient knowledge of Microsoft Office, Access, Power BI, SQL Coding Language, Oracle Primavera, Power Plan, Maximo, e-Builder and SharePoint.

• Must have the ability to monitor and analyze cost and scheduling information, provide forecasts, make recommendations, and communicate effectively at all levels.

• Individual must be detailed oriented to catch and fix data errors during validation and demonstrate self-reliance with a strong sense of self-motivation, good communication skills, and demonstrate the ability to work independently.

• Individual must possess knowledge of financial modeling, accounting, risk management, project management information systems, economics, capital investment analysis techniques, plant accounting, tax and capital budgeting. 

• Must be able to exhibit a professional demeanor and effectively present to leadership and executive level business users.

• Must have knowledge and experience in prototyping, designing, and requirement analysis.

• Must have knowledge and skills for secondary tools such as Microsoft Azure, SQL data warehouse, SQL server, Advanced Query Tool, PolyBase, Visual Studio, Microsoft workflows, etc. 

• Must be familiar with DAX programming language and be able to understand advance level calculations on the data set.  Position will be responsible for design methodology and project documentation. 

• Must be able to independently analyze and validate data based on business knowledge to ensure accuracy prior to publishing reports.

• Must be familiar with integrating Power BI reports into other applications using embedded analytics like Power BI service (SaaS), or by API automation.

Education:     

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business Analytics, Information Systems, related discipline or equivalent years of related experience

• Master’s degree education preferred   

Experience:     

• 5 years of experience working with a self-service tool, preferably Power BI.

• 5 years of experience working with SQL queries, SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) and SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS).

• Experience in data preparation, data gateway and data warehousing projects.

• 3 years of related experience preferred with experience exposure to Project Management, accounting, financial business analysts in a business involved with managing large, complex multi-year projects.        

Working Conditions:

• Limited travel will be required to project sites and stakeholder locations.

• Must be available to work emergency restoration assignment as required.

• Our hybrid working program is first 90 days in the office then hybrid

Compensation and Benefits:

Eversource offers a competitive total rewards program.  The annual salary range for this position starts at $120,740.00 to $134,150.00 plus incentive.  Salary is commensurate with your experience.  Check out the career site for an overview of our benefits.

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EEO Statement

Eversource Energy is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, disability status, or protected veteran status.

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Emergency Response:

Responding to emergency situations to meet customers’ needs is part of every employee’s role. If employed, you will be given an Emergency Restoration assignment.  This means you may be called to assist during an emergency outside of your normal responsibilities, work hours and location.