Job Description
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Job Title: Senior Principal Consultant
Location: Oakland, CA (Hybrid)
Description:
LOOKING FOR CANDIDATES LOCAL TO BAY AREA/WORK LOCATION-OAKLAND. ASSIGNMENT IS HYBRID AND REQUIRED ON-SITE AT OAKLAND GENERAL OFFICE 2-3 TIMES A WEEK. LAPTOP WILL BE ISSUED.
TOP THINGS LOOKING FOR (MUST MEET THESE REQUIREMENTS FOR SUBMITTALS):
- PG&E experience – preference for 4+ years (more recent the better) within Finance Department / Business Finance or working on major Financial related strategic projects
- Should be very experienced working with PG&E financial specifics such as NEIE / EIE / Capital categorizations of cost, where to find cost data, how these breakout across the entire org, how to run advanced analytics on them, etc.;
- Needs Financial forecasting and advanced data analytics experience (SAP, SQL, PowerBI, Python).
Job Responsibilities:
- Evaluate enterprise performance and provide data-driven insights that lead to actionable recommendations.
- Frame analytic approaches and lead quantitative analyses that will yield critical answers to key questions.
- Uses existing financial models and/or develops new models for analysis and reporting.
- Contributes to establishing standards and drives improvement within existing processes and develops new processes as needed.
- Provides recommendations to senior management (up to and including SVP/ EVP) across functions to drive and influence planning, operations efficiency and decision making.
- May manage cross-functional projects or initiatives.
- May act as a team lead and provide direction to less experienced employees.
- Leads special projects and initiatives as assigned.
- Interacts and consults with multiple departments and business partners.
- Drives change in the organization and be a champion of company initiatives as appropriate.
- Enrich company data through external and public sources.
- Identify opportunities for targeted, cost-effective resource (savings) acquisition.
- Conduct trend and sensitivity analyses.
Qualifications:
Minimum:
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting or job-related discipline or equivalent experience
- Requires a minimum of six years total of accounting, financial, or business-related experience, including advanced analytical experience; preference for experience in management consulting or investment banking
- Minimum 4 years previous experience at PGE, preferably in Finance department or Business Finance working on financial forecasting, statistical modeling, and/or advanced data analytics
Highly Desired:
- Masters Degree in Business Administration or equivalent experience
- Job-related experience, 8 years
- Utility industry experience
- Experience in management consulting or investment banking
- CPA-Certified Public Accountant certification
- Well versed with Python/SAS to build descriptive predictive models that enrich, expand, and allow a deeper understanding of data analyses and solutions
- Use of interactive data visualization tools, such as Tableau and Power BI, to present results in a compelling manner
- Data-oriented personality
- Ability to synthesize the requests from management at all levels
- Capability to be a creative, innovative problem solver - but using simple ideas
- Ability to work full-time in an office and remote environment; physically able to sit/stand at a computer and work in front of a computer screen for significant portions of the workday
- Develop KPIs/KRIs wherever needed to provide an initial view of performance/risks.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills in English
Job Tags
Full time, Work at office, Local area, Remote work,