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Governance Data Analyst
Location: Hybrid role from Oakland, CA (Occasional on-site days)
Start: Immediate
Duration: 1 year +
Rate: $55 W2 per hour plus benefits - Health, 401K, Life etc
**MUST BE CURRENTLY RESIDING IN THE OAKLAND AREA TO BE CONSIDERED**
Summary:
- Supports the monthly governance cycle / process for our portfolio including data analysis and reporting, facilitation of meetings and exchanges with Finance partners, and presentation of the final assessment data to executive leadership.
- Drives annual budget adherence for portfolio programs by administering the financial change request process and ensuring change requests are submitted, reviewed, and revised in a timely manner. Reviews risks (overspend) and opportunities (underspend) and evaluates probability to advise on overall impacts to the portfolio financial assessment (end of year forecast).
- Works with Business operations Investment Planning, Line of Business Portfolio Managers, and Programs to administer a financial offset / trigger / lever process to deprioritize lowest priority spending and support a dynamic but balanced budget.
- Applies subject matter expertise to wide-ranging change control processes and challenges.
- Develops recommendations regarding new or better reports or tools based on assessment of stakeholder needs, trends, strategic direction, and organizational priorities.
- May lead special initiatives around portfolio management and change controls. May assist with some IT related enhancement discussions. Collaborates with cross-functional team members on most effective field rollout of process, tool and/or reporting changes.
- Monitors, prepares regular reports, and presents status to senior management. Organizes, schedules, and leads cross functional stakeholder meetings to review analysis financials/budgets. Discusses and recommends solutions.
- Performs tasks or supports activities required for the portfolio change control function
Qualifications
Minimum:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Business, technical field or equivalent related experience
- 5 years of total related experience such as integrated or strategic portfolio/work planning in an utility or related field
- Demonstrated experience working with large tabular data sets, diverse data sources, and /or data models.
- Advanced data analysis skills, knowledgeable in collecting data, organizing, synthesizing, reporting, recognizing trending and anomalies, drawing conclusions, and developing recommendations.
- Knowledge in project/work scheduling concepts, methods, and practices.
- Knowledge of budgeting processes and methods.
- Influence and negotiation to gain agreement from various stakeholders.
- Advanced technical skills using systems and applications such as SAP Work Management, SAP Business Warehouse (BW), Excel, and PowerPoint to develop reports, analysis, and deliver presentations
Desired
- Utility experience preferred