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Governance Data Analyst

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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