(Agile1)Business Analyst, Senior

Company: Abacus Service Corporation
Location: San Ramon
Posted on: June 6, 2021

Job Description:

Description:
SUBMIT CANDIDATES LOCAL TO BAY AREA/WORK LOCATION. WILL BE REQUIRED ON-SITE IN OFFICE ONCE SIP IS LIFTED.


Department Overview
PG&E's Electric Business Operations team is responsible for providing direction and coordination across Electric Transmission, Distribution and Asset Management. Aligning operations and our people with the Electric T&D execution organizations we serve facilitates better planning, execution and overall service delivery. This is accomplished via six distinct but interconnected teams:
1. T&D Investment Planning
2. T&D Integrated Planning
3. Electric Workforce Strategy
4. Distribution Work and Resource Management
5. Transmission Work and Resource Management
6. Transmission Portfolio Management


The Electric T&D Business Operations organization is led by a Sr Director who reports directly to the Sr Vice President of Electric Transmission and Distribution. The Business Operations organization is responsible for driving partnerships across key departments within Electric T&D and lines of business across the Company to design and drive the strategic planning rhythm. The Business Operations organization owns and directs several processes including Electric T&D Integrated Planning, Regulatory Filings, and the facilitation of a $4 billion dollar annual expense and capital budget.
All of these services are critical to a company with over $44 billion in assets, over $15 billion in revenues; which serves ~5 million electric distribution customers and ~4 million natural gas distribution customers. This high profile team provides a great place for energized and talented employees to make a contribution, be recognized and ignite their career.

Position Summary

The Senior Analyst will lead and support various workforce related initiatives for Electric Operations. This includes conducting deep-dive analyses of workforce initiatives based on an annual prioritization process with each Electric Operations line of business, supporting relevant Customer Affordability Roadmap initiatives, and ad-hoc support of workforce development or training initiatives being driven by the Workforce Strategy team. This position has high executive visibility and will engage with Electric T&D leadership, including VPs, Sr Directors, and Mgrs. The Sr Analyst will also work with the Manager of Business Strategy on strategic initiatives including the integrated planning deliverables for Electric Operations S-1, S-2, and Session D as well as provide support for the Electric Operations leadership team meetings.


Qualifications
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
" 4 years of relevant work experience with steady progression of responsibilities including skills in process mapping, data analysis and financial analysis.
" Bachelor's degree in engineering, economics, business administration or comparable quantitative field or equivalent related work experience. If no degree has been achieved, successful candidate must possess 8 years of relative working experience.
" Highly proficient in Microsoft Office Products
" Ability to identify, prioritize, and manage multiple deliverables simultaneously

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS
" Experience working in a resource management function.
" Utility, energy or regulatory industry experience.
" Strategic planning and/or communications experience.
" Broad understanding of the utility or energy industry drivers, issues and trends.
" Strong knowledge of long-term strategic business planning theories, concepts, practices, methods and techniques.
" Strong data analysis, benchmarking, monitoring and business/financial analysis skills including knowledge of varied analytical methods.
" Strong analytical problem solving and decision making skills to develop comprehensive solutions.
" Strong oral and written communication, interpersonal and collaboration skills.
" Adaptable to changing business conditions and ambiguity.
" Effectively gains buy-in from leaders inside and outside of the department. Solid knowledge of workforce planning concepts, methods, practices and techniques.
" Results oriented: willing to set aggressive, but realistic goals and to hold others accountable for their performance

Responsibilities
" Partner with Electric Integrated Planning team and Business Finance to assist in the annual development of the 5 year Operating Plan (S-1), 2 year Execution Plan (S-2), by providing analysis that support organizational size and skill sets required to successfully execute the business plan and meet business objectives
" Works closely with Electric Advance initiatives leads to support benefit realizations that have a workforce impact
" Leads the governance of workforce/Headcount planning and strategy for both internal and Non-Employee workers to address workforce trends and potential issues identified from analytics
" Acts as a single point of contact for (assigned) LOB leadership for all workforce related initiatives
" Work with all leadership levels across EO to gather and analyze operational and financial information and draws conclusions for workforce strategy, including contingency plans or course correction actions as necessary to present to Senior leaders.
" Performs analysis on highly complex data sets that have cross-functional impact. Incorporates workforce changes into resource/cost models.
" Develops and maintains workforce planning models. Incorporates actual and projected internal workforce changes and external labor market factors into models. Creates standardized dashboard analytics for Electric Operations leadership.
" Analyzes cost structure including cost benchmarks.
" Evaluates internal / external labor costs for work allocation.
" Researches and recommends metrics that would best enable positive business outcomes.

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