Senior Business Analyst- Flexible Location

Requisition ID # 175557 

Job Category: Business Operations / Strategy 

Job Level: Individual Contributor

Business Unit: Energy Delivery

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland; Pleasanton

Department Overview

The Gas Strategy Execution department shapes the long-term direction of PG&E’s natural gas system to ensure it remains safe, reliable, affordable, and aligned with California’s decarbonization goals. We translate policy, regulatory, and system needs into actionable strategies and investment plans that guide how the gas system evolves over the next decade and beyond. 

Our team leads PG&E’s True North Strategy for Gas, integrating engineering, planning, operations, regulatory, and policy perspectives to inform system level decisions. We focus on:

•    Developing long range gas system strategies and 10-year plans
•    Identifying cost effective risk reduction and affordability opportunities
•    Advancing methane reduction, RNG, hydrogen, and other decarbonization strategies
•    Supporting load growth and system capacity needs, including large and emerging customers
•    Establishing governance and prioritization frameworks to ensure investments deliver measurable value

Position Summary

The Senior Business Analyst supports large-load growth on PG&E’s gas distribution system by leading reporting, data management, performance analytics, and business intelligence for data center and other large commercial and industrial customer interconnections.

The position develops and maintains reliable datasets, dashboards, performance metrics, and analytical tools that provide visibility into the large-load project portfolio, including customer demand, project status, key milestones, cycle times, costs, infrastructure requirements, risks, and resource constraints. The Senior Business Analyst analyzes performance trends and project data to identify bottlenecks, recurring delays, cost drivers, and other opportunities for process improvement.

Working closely with Program Management, Gas Engineering, Planning, Operations, Customer organizations, and other cross-functional partners, the role translates data into actionable insights and recommendations that support operating reviews and leadership decisions. The position helps establish performance baselines, measure the effectiveness of process improvements, and identify opportunities to shorten interconnection timelines, increase process predictability, improve customer experience, and reduce the overall cost of connecting large-load customers to the gas distribution system.

Core focus areas include:
•    Reporting & dashboards: Develop portfolio-level reporting for project milestones, schedules, costs, risks, customer demand, and infrastructure needs.
•    Data management: Establish consistent data definitions, data quality controls, and a reliable source of truth for large-load opportunities and projects.
•    Performance analytics: Analyze cycle time, cost, workload, and project performance to identify trends and root causes of delays.
•    Process improvement: Use data to identify bottlenecks and recommend improvements to engineering, estimating, approvals, contracting, permitting, construction, and interconnection processes.
•    Speed to Gas analytics: Establish baseline interconnection timelines and measure whether improvement initiatives are actually reducing customer time-to-service.
•    Affordability: Analyze cost drivers and project alternatives to identify opportunities to lower interconnection costs while maintaining safety, reliability, and compliance.
•    Predictive analytics: Develop forecasting and analytical models to anticipate future large-load demand, resource requirements, infrastructure constraints, and potential schedule risks.
Location is flexible between Oakland and Pleasanton HQs, please note hiring leader will make final decision of what are appropriate headquarters for the role based on business need. 

Position will require up to approximately 10% of travel time in work schedule. 

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 (Oakland or Pleasanton). 

PG&E is providing the salary range that the company in good faith believes it might pay for this position at the time of the job posting. This compensation range is specific to the locality of the job.  The actual salary paid to an individual will be based on multiple factors, including, but not limited to, specific skills, education, licenses or certifications, experience, market value, geographic location, and internal equity.  Although we estimate the successful candidate hired into this role will be placed towards the middle or entry point of the range, the decision will be made on a case-by-case basis related to these factors.

A reasonable salary range is:

Bay Area Minimum:$102,000
Bay Area Maximum:$152,000

This job is also eligible to participate in PG&E’s discretionary incentive compensation programs.

Job Responsibilities

•    Performs analysis on complex data models requiring customized reports and data.
•    Develops new or revises existing data analysis to predict business outcomes selecting from various complex variables.
•    Develops and uses metrics to develop recommendations related to business strategy and operations. Presents findings and recommendations to leaders.
•    Manages small to mid-size projects.

Minimum Qualifications:  

•    Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration or job-related discipline or equivalent experience
•    4 years of related work experience

Desired Qualifications:

•    MBA or graduate degree
o    Knowledge, Skills, Abilities (Desired)
o    Broad knowledge of different analytical methods, approaches and tactics
o    Advanced understanding of fundamental analysis and what-if modeling concepts, methods and techniques and analysis of how different factors affect business outcomes
o    Creative problem skills to develop solutions
o    Qualitative and quantitative analytical skills to justify any business changes
o    Strong presentation and communication skills to deliver findings and recommendations to various levels of management
o    Knowledge and understanding of key drivers affecting business results