Senior EGI Business Analyst

Requisition ID # 161309 

Job Category: Business Operations / Strategy 

Job Level: Individual Contributor

Business Unit: Electric Engineering

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland

Department Overview

The Electric Operations team ensures the delivery of safe and reliable electric service to our customers. Electric Operations is responsible for every aspect of PG&E's electric distribution and transmission operations, including planning, engineering, maintenance and construction, asset management, business planning, restoration and emergency response. 

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 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 hourly rate 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, collective bargaining agreement, and internal equity.

Under the terms of the collective bargaining agreement, the hourly rate range for this position is $50.72 to $69.72, subject to collectively bargained wage increases.​

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; or 4 years of related non-PG&E experience

Desired:

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