At PGE, our work involves dreaming about, planning for, and realizing a smarter, cleaner, more enduring Oregon neighborhood. Its core to our DNA and we haven’t stopped since we started in 1888. We energize lives, strengthen communities and drive advancements in energy that promote social, economic and environmental progress. We’re always on the lookout for people passionate about leading and being a part of teams that are advancing innovative clean energy solutions that are also affordable and accessible to all.
As part of the Capital Portfolio Delivery department, this position provides financial analysis support and reporting for the Capital Portfolio. This position supports Capital Portfolio Delivery by providing reports, budget reviews and reconciliation, record keeping and cleanup, meeting preparation, and administrative tasks. This position may include ad hoc and routine reporting, budget variance investigation, monthly meeting preparation, note-taking, funding project creation/adjustments in Oracle, budget forecasting, etc. This position is in support of other Principal Financial Analysts on the team to help manage the Capital Portfolio budget for the current year, supports development of future year portfolios and the capital call, ensures all forecasts are entered/updated, and serves as internal consultant on financial matters for the organization.
Key Responsibilities
- Economic Analysis: Develops economic analyses for significant corporate projects and/or functions, including examining economics/costs under uncertainty.
- Reporting: Updates and verifies modelling assumptions and inputs for load forecasting; modifies and develops modules within the larger load-forecasting model.
- Internal Consulting: Develops reports to document analysis, assumptions, results, conclusions and issues.
- External Interaction: Provides support to a range of clients across the organization; presents analysis and work products to clients, team members, senior analysts and management.
- Financial Systems: Assists with preparation of information to be presented to the Oregon Public Utilities Commission and other external parties and answer straightforward questions.
Education/Experience/Certifications
Education: Requires a bachelor’s degree in finance, business, economics or other related field or equivalent experience.
Experience: Typically two or more years in related field.
Competencies (Knowledge, Skills, Abilities)
- Intermediate knowledge of fundamental economic, business and accounting principles.
- Intermediate knowledge of macroeconomics and microeconomics, pricing theory, finance, accounting and financial analysis.
- Intermediate financial modeling skills and experience using Microsoft Excel.
- Working knowledge of regulated utility operations, revenue requirements, utility accounting principles (e.g., rate-base return standard, AFUDC), wholesale power market and the basics of power plant and transmission system operation and market fundamentals.
- Intermediate mathematical skills.
- Working business acumen.
- Working problem-solving skills.
- Intermediate written and oral communication skills.
- Basic analytical thinking skills.
- Working organization and prioritization skills.
Physical and Cognitive Demands
Cognitive Level: Intermediate: Consistent use of relevant principles to solve practical problems and to deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
Cognitive: Ability to adhere to set response times, deadlines and time-sensitive tasks; follow accuracy standards; follow through on decision-making tasks; interact effectively and collaboratively within a team environment; communicate and problem solve when under stress; respond and adapt to frequent change; accept and demonstrate self-awareness when provided constructive feedback; discern feedback and acknowledge ownership of areas of improvement; avoid future mistakes by applying reasonable skills to new but similar work situations or tasks; successfully collaborate with peers, managers and others within the organization; demonstrate sound memory; process new information to be applied consistently to work tasks.
Schedule/Attendance: Ability to work long hours; work a variable schedule; report to work and perform work during periods of severe inclement weather; consistently meet attendance standards for regular, reliable, predictable, full-time attendance; work shift schedule; work on-call schedule.
Physical Capabilities: Driving/travel/commute: Daily within service territory - Frequently (at least once a week or more); Computer use (use computer regularly for entire work shift).
Environment: Office – Hybrid – 3 days per week in office.
Compensation Range: $60,975.00 - $121,500.00. Actual total compensation, including a performance based incentive bonus, is commensurate with experience, skills, qualifications, education, training, and internal equity. While we anticipate the selected candidate for this position will fall towards the middle or entry point of the compensation range, the decision will be made on a case-by-case basis.
PGE believes in rewarding dedicated performance. We provide a total rewards package that is designed to reward your contributions to the company, and, at the same time, support your well-being and professional development, both now and into the future.
Join us today and power your potential!
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PGE is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace and is an equal opportunity employer. PGE will not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment based on race, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, religion, disability, protected veteran status, or other characteristics protected by law.
PGE does not discriminate on the basis of disability. We recognize individuals have a variety of abilities to offer and we believe there is much to value and celebrate by incorporating different abilities into the work we do. One very important way we live this out is in our application and interview process. We work hard to support individuals who may need an accommodation to fully participate in these processes. If you feel you may need an accommodation, or would like to request one, please notify the Talent Acquisition Specialist (Recruiter) associated with the job posting. You may also make this request by contacting talentacquisition@pgn.com or by calling 503-464-7250. The Recruiter will provide information and next steps for the accommodation process. Our Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) team is also available for support. You can contact them at dei@pgn.com.
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About Us
At Portland General Electric, we’re innovators, builders, and achievers. We’re committed to powering our customers’ potential and making a difference for our community and the planet. Today, that commitment includes developing an intelligent and resilient electric grid, electrifying transportation and de-carbonizing the energy sector.
We’re proud to deliver an exceptional experience to help our customers thrive. Our mission is to make clean, reliable and affordable energy services available to all. We obsess over serving customers and are committed to growing employee career paths with purpose. Equity and inclusion are core business values; we celebrate our differences and are committed to developing teams that reflect the communities we serve.
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