Expert Investment Planning Analyst - Location Flexible

Requisition ID # 157701 

Job Category: Maintenance / Construction / Operations; Accounting / Finance; Business Operations / Strategy; Compliance / Risk / Quality Assurance; Procurement / Supply Chain; Project / Program Management 

Job Level: Individual Contributor

Business Unit: Electric Engineering

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland

Department Overview

Integrated Investment Planning organization is responsible for delivering a stable, predictable and optimized multi-year work plan. The key functional organizations we interact with include asset management, regulatory strategy, portfolio planning and financial change control, design and engineering, and customer service planning and design. The organization is focused on serving our hometowns by mastering PG&E’s asset knowledge while building a long-term work plan to ensure safe, reliable, and sustainable operations.

The Electric Investment Planning team creates and maintains the multi-year investment plans for PG&E’s Electric Transmission and Distribution capital and expense programs to deliver for our hometowns, serve our planet and lead with love. The team works with senior management, program managers, business partners, planning staff and others to establish and implement long-term Investment Plans that are stable, predictable, visible, prioritized, integrated, efficient and executable.

Position Summary

Serves as a key team member of the Electric Investment Planning team, partnering with peers and stakeholders in program management, asset strategy, business finance, and others to establish and implement a long-term electric Transmission and Distribution capital and expense plan that is stable, predictable, visible, prioritized and integrated. This position will also help the team to document the Investment Planning Process and support the team’s efforts to document adherence to the Business Plan Deployment and Investment Planning standards.

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

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.

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:

• Minimum Base Salary (Bay Area)    $118,000.00
• Mid Base Salary (Bay Area)    $153,000.00
• Maximum Base Salary (Bay Area)    $188,000.00

• Minimum Base Salary (California)    $112,000.00
• Mid Base Salary (California)    $145,000.00
• Maximum Base Salary (California)    $179,000.00

Job Responsibilities

· Leads documentation of the investment planning process, including the work intake process, cross-program prioritization model, rules and guidance for integration, process for updates and changes, metrics for monitoring and tracking, and tools for consolidation and communication.

· Consolidates efforts and improves process implementation by providing a holistic view on planning across the department and interdepartmentally.

· Interfaces with business partners such as engineering, construction, project management, sourcing, finance and land & environmental management to drive improvement of tools, processes, efficiency and portfolio project implementation.

· Leads and facilitates electric T&D long-term planning; aligns plan with company’s goals and objectives.

· Create complex analysis based on large set of financial forecast information, risk/value data points, key performance metrics to help drive leadership decisions on funding and resource allocation.

· May support emergency operations activities during major events.

Qualifications

Minimum:

· Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent related experience

· 6 years of related experience

Desired:

· Master’s Degree in Business, Engineering, or Science

· Strong written and oral communication skills

· Strong experience with process improvement

· Strong data analytical skills and comfort with large data sets (medium to advanced Excel skills)

· Strong organizational skills

· Leadership skills with demonstrated ability to develop teams

· Understanding of utility economics, value of service and benefit to cost analysis