Principal Strategic Analyst Location Oakland, California;

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Requisition ID # 159960

Job Category: Business Operations / Strategy

Job Level: Manager/Principal

Business Unit: Engineering, Planning & Strategy

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland

Department Overview

Energy Policy & Procurement (EPP) secures electricity and natural gas from wholesale markets for PG&E customers to ensure system reliability. In addition, EPP is responsible for long-term planning, risk management, and compliance functions related to PG&E’s energy portfolio. EPP also actively participates in regulatory and legislative proceedings that shape the design and implementation of state, regional, and federal energy regulation and policy.

The Principal Strategic Analyst position resides with the Bundled Portfolio Planning and Analysis (BPPA) team within EPP’s Energy Policy Analysis and Design (EPAD) department. EPAD is responsible for forecasting volumes, costs and impacts of demand- and supply-side energy resources, and portfolio positions for commodity market products and services as well as compliance instruments. The team is also responsible for market intelligence and assessment of supply-side and demand-side energy resources. EPAD supports long-term planning for supply-side and demand-side resources, electric transmission and distribution infrastructure, and business strategies to meet the future energy needs of PG&E’s customers reliably, at a reasonable cost, and consistent with company and regulatory/legislative environmental policies.

Position Summary

PG&E is seeking a highly motivated Principal Analyst with experience in electric portfolio forecasting analytics, generation portfolio simulation modeling, scenario analysis, data visualization, data management, utility business model, and business process management. The analyst will work closely with stakeholders to develop generation and cost forecasts associated with utility owned and contracted generation resources as well as costs related to other market transactions that are required to serve PG&E’s bundled electric load. The analyst will generate high-value business insights by identifying, framing, and executing analyses related to the business impacts of forecasts.

As part of this work the analyst will systematically evaluate and recommend improvements to the forecasting process, models, inputs, and platforms for production and delivery of forecasts.

The candidate will be capable of developing and managing cross-functional projects, products, or processes. The candidate will also have excellent written and verbal communication skills with demonstrated experience informing and influencing senior leadership and external stakeholders.

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. We would not anticipate that the individual hired into this role would land at or near the top half of the range described below, but the decision will be dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case.​

A reasonable salary range is:​

Bay Area : $136,000.00

Bay Area : $232,000.00

&/OR​

California : $129,000.00

California : $220,000.00

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.

Job Responsibilities

1. Forecasting : Develop generation and cost forecasts associated with utility owned and contracted generation resources as well as costs related to other market transactions that are required to serve PG&E’s bundled electric load. This includes developing and managing simulation modeling to account for identified uncertainties that impact PG&E’s electric generation portfolio. Ensure that the forecast is systematically and appropriately integrated into long-term planning strategy as well as policy and planning processes. Conduct research to inform/validate inputs, assumptions, and scenarios. Conduct market and policy research to identify critical uncertainties and inform the key inputs, assumptions, and the range of scenarios to be forecasted.

2. Market Intelligence and Assessment: Perform market assessment of supply-side and demand side energy resources for electricity.

3. Analysis : Produce analytics that guide PG&E’s resource, infrastructure, and strategic planning as well as public policy position development. The successful candidate will have a broad understanding of the California utility regulatory context and PG&E’s business model to help contextualize the forecasts. Communicate results to client organizations through effective data visualization and presentation materials.

4. Continuous Improvement : Drive continuous improvement to increase the efficiency, persuasiveness, and pervasiveness of electric portfolio forecasting. Provide support for the development and implementation of a roadmap to systematically identify improvements to the forecasting processes, analytics, inputs, and capabilities. Research and document forecasting best practices, client use-cases, product specifications, analytical methods, processes, and platforms for production and delivery of forecasts.

5. Policy Advocacy : Help develop analysis and testimony as well as work papers and exhibits to support policy position development with respect to forecasting. Review, analyze, and respond to interveners' testimony, comments, etc. to ensure the best possible outcome.

Qualifications

:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Economics, Engineering, Statistics, Mathematics, Finance, Business, Physics or related disciplines or equivalent work experience

• 8 years of job-related experience

Desired:

• Advanced degree in a relevant discipline

• Demonstrated experience performing energy-related quantitative analysis, probabilistic dispatch modeling, production simulation modeling, technology market or program assessments or similar functions

• Demonstrated project, process or product management experience

• Three years working at electric or natural gas utilities, independent power producers, wholesale energy market participants, regulatory agencies, consulting firms, or similar organizations

• Knowledgeable about PG&E’s business model, including interdependencies and interrelationships of the electric and natural gas industries and supply/demand-side businesses

• Familiarity with California regulatory context for investor-owned utilities

• Excellent oral and written communication skills, including communicating with technical and managerial audiences

• Demonstrated experience performing advanced Excel modeling. Working knowledge of Word, PowerPoint, and Power BI. Prior exposure to data-base management techniques.

• Working knowledge of advanced applications programming: R, SQL, SAS, Stata, Matlab or other data analysis/statistical software

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