Senior Business Finance Analyst

Requisition ID # 165204 

Job Category: Accounting / Finance 

Job Level: Individual Contributor

Business Unit: Finance

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland

Department Overview

PG&E’s Business Finance team provides critical financial support to its operational Business Partners within the company.  This support includes but is not limited to financial analysis, budgeting, planning and forecasting, monitoring, performance metric reporting and analysis.  These services are critical to achieving the company’s strategic, operational and financial objectives.

Position Overview

The successful candidate will serve as a Senior Business Finance Analyst in support of Gas Operations.  You will demonstrate good verbal and written communication skills, strong analytical and quantitative skills, a background in finance, accounting, or engineering, poise in working with many levels of staff, strong organizational and planning skills, initiative and enthusiasm, and strong interpersonal skills. 

In this role, you will serve as a business partner focal for all finance and accounting, including planning, budget, forecasting, tools, and optimization analysis. You will integrate with the client organization and become a trusted financial and strategic thought leader. In sum, the individual will balance and utilize their functional expertise, intellectual curiosity, ethics, and interpersonal skills to build and maintain integrative relationships and ensure best in class decision support and recommendation.

The role is hybrid working from your remote office and in-person at the Oakland General Office, on average 1-3 days per week based on business needs or company requirements.

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 between the entry point and the middle of the range, the decision will be made on a case-by-case basis related to these factors.​ This job is also eligible to participate in PG&E’s discretionary incentive compensation programs.  

A reasonable salary range is:​

Bay Area Minimum:             $98,000

Bay Area Maximum:            $146,000

Job Responsibilities

• Works with department to develop budget (expense, and capital expenditures), monitor, forecast and report against budget.
• Works with others on the analysis and validation of multi-year plans and results.
• Provides forecasts while tracking and improving accuracy.
• Presents findings and makes recommendations to manage others within organization.
• Support standardization of financial reporting, analytics, and modeling across business units
• Rate Case support – business case development / validation on an as-needed basis
• Communicates recommendations and findings to leaders and officers.

Qualifications

Minimum:

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, economics, engineering, quantitative or related field of study, or equivalent experience
• 3 years of experience within a medium-to-large-scale company, preferably a regulated utility.

Desired:

• 4 years of relevant experience
• Working knowledge of SAP R3, SAP BW
• Ability to execute tactically as well as depict the whole idea / strategic analysis
• Exceptional time management skills to deal with tight deadlines
• Excellent strategic thinking, communication, and presentation skills
• Strong experience with Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Word
• Successful track record of working collaboratively with teams
• Understanding of Utility Accounting fundamentals and the PG&E cost model to consult on program issues