Senior Business Analyst

Requisition ID # 175203 

Job Category: Business Operations / Strategy 

Job Level: Individual Contributor

Business Unit: Energy Delivery

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland

Department Overview

Over 6,500 coworkers in Electric T&D ensure the delivery of clean, safe, reliable and affordable energy to nearly 16 million people in Northern and Central California. The Electric T&D Team is responsible for ensuring the electric grid's reliability and resiliency through the ongoing maintenance and operations of PG&E's 100,000 miles of distribution lines and over 18,000 miles of Transmission lines. Coworkers in Electric T&D's actively engage in the Lean Methodology through the use of Visual Management in Operating Reviews to cross-functionally identify and solve problems and create standard work. By working together as One Electric. One Team. We are delivering for our hometowns.  

Position Summary

This job is represented by Engineers & Scientists of California (ESC) subject to collective bargaining.

This is a Senior-level Analyst position that provides support to Senior EGI Interconnection Manager level distribution and/or transmission interconnection requests with minimal guidance. Work may require direction from more senior EGI Interconnection Managers, Supervisors, Manager and Director. Frequent interaction with internal partners.

This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and your assigned work location based on business need. The assigned work location will be within the PG&E Service Territory.

PG&E is providing the hourly rate that the company in good faith believes it might pay for this position at the time of the job posting. This position is subject to collectively bargained hourly wage rates and increases. The starting wage rate for this position is $53.26 per hour.  This wage rate is specific to the locality of the job. The wage rate is based on multiple factors, including, but not limited to, specific skills, education, licenses or certifications, experience, market value, geographic location, collective bargaining agreements, and internal equity.  

Job Responsibilities

• Regularly produce standard reports from EGI databases, including but not limited to Sarbanes Oxley report (quarterly reports), Revenue Accounting – Transmission Project Billing Credits, Distribution generation cost tracking, etc.
• Perform regular queries to produce FERC and CPUC compliance reports and billing inquiries.  
• Perform monthly QF Conversion (cost of ownership) reconciliations.
• Assist in providing detailed specifications and cost/benefit analysis of proposed changes and enhancements.
• Manage all incoming funds for generation interconnections, including capital, expense and other balance sheet. Reconcile outstanding billing documents.
• Create and Close study and expense order numbers
• Assist in developing and administering training material specific to enhancements of customer software that is vital to communication process improvements.
• Perform accounting settlement for interconnection projects.
• Manages invoicing process for deposits required for engineering, procurement and construction and ensures deposits are collected and in compliance with contracts.
• Receives and processes new applications for distribution interconnection queue. Ensures timely processing in compliance with tariff application milestone durations.

• May perform all the functions of the journey EGI Business Analyst and in addition:
• Represent EGI regarding technical issues with various stakeholders (e.g. ISTS, Account Services, CSI and SGIP groups).
• Produce custom, non-standard or ad-hoc reports as requested.
• Identify project cost variances, investigate suspicious charges and provide recommendations for corrective actions.
• Analyze and validate actual charges to project orders and take corrective actions as necessary.
• Provide current project cost-to-date necessary to manage costs effectively.
• Train other EGI employees on systems and compliance.
• Act as point of contact for software system updates, enhancements and modifications.
• Work with appropriate departments to resolve systems issues and implement solutions or program enhancements.
• Prepares ad-hoc reports on contracts as required by the CPUC or FERC or internal clients.

Qualifications

Minimum:

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or its equivalent in education and experience
• 3 years of experience in PG&E transmission, distribution, business planning, accounting, or finance; 4 years of related experience if hired externally

Desired:

• Expert user of Excel and reporting tools such as Business Objects, BRIO or MS Access;
• Working knowledge of SQL and basic Requirements Analysis.
• Comprehensive knowledge of ENOS and other specialized EGI applications and knowledge of CC&B, DART, FAS and other company applications that impact EGI processes