Information Systems Analyst, Expert

PG&E Corporation; Oakland (CA); Hybrid; USD 129,000 - 207,000; Full time

Job summary

Pacific Gas and Electric Company in Oakland is seeking a Finance Cost Model Governance Expert to manage enterprise overhead processes and rates, drive simplification, and lead training and process improvements across finance operations.

The role focuses on building strong partnerships, ensuring governance over cost models, and delivering continuous improvements to financial data integrity within a hybrid work arrangement from the Bay Area.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business, finance, accounting or engineering or related discipline or equivalent experience
• Eight years of experience including process improvement implementation, report maintenance and development, product deployment, and change management
• Masters in accounting, business, finance, or engineering (desirable)
• SAP Certification (desirable)
• Green Belt Lean Six Sigma (desirable)
• PMP Certification (desirable)
• Eight years in an SAP/Business Warehouse (BW) operations and maintenance support environment (desirable)
• Instructor capability (desirable)
• Business planning experience (desirable)
• Accounts Payable experience (desirable)

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with leaders, functional areas, and business partners to work on issues, projects or monthly activities
• Supports relationships with business units and external partners
• Develop standards and procedures in relation to common questions or requests
• Create content for and train business partners as necessary
• Provides recommendations to business partners with support analysis
• Identifies methods to promote efficiency within existing processes, creates a best practices environment
• Develop and manages processes as needed
• Develop repeatable oversight controls to continuously govern the established overhead standards and procedures

Skills

Process improvement

Financial reporting

Change management

Data analytics

Training/enablement

Education

Bachelor’s degree in business/finance/engineering

Master’s degree (desirable)

SAP Certification (desirable)

Lean Six Sigma Green Belt (desirable)

PMP Certification (desirable)

Eight years SAP/BW ops experience (desirable)

Tools

SAP BW

Job description

Department Overview

The Finance Cost Model Governance team enables the Finance and Controllers organization to operate, record, report and manage financials. We maintain strong governance, controls, implement finance processes of the future as well as equip Operations Finance partners with knowledge, guidance and tools to be subject matter experts to their partners. This team also enables all PG&E in operational reporting and performance measurement. This involves the advisement toward business requirements gathering, conceptual design, end-user acceptance testing, and guidance on the overall improvement of applications used by Finance.

Position Summary

The Finance Cost Model Governance Expert will be responsible for managing the enterprise and functional area overhead process and overhead rates. They will also be responsible for driving simplification, training, and initiating process improvements related to models and questions/requests. The successful candidate will create beneficial relationships with our business partners to ensure that roles/responsibilities are being adhered to with a continual focus on process improvements for all groups involved.

Positions in this job family provide oversight to the Cost Model Governance team. The team is responsible for the company’s financial data integrity.

This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and the Oakland General Office.

Job Responsibilities

• Collaborate with leaders, functional areas, and business partners to work on issues, projects or monthly activities.
• Supports relationships with business units and external partners.
• Develop standards and procedures in relation to common questions or requests.
• Create content for and train business partners as necessary.
• Provides recommendations to business partners with support analysis.
• Identifies methods to promote efficiency within existing processes, creates a best practices environment.
• Develop and manages processes as needed.
• Develop repeatable oversight controls to continuously govern the established overhead standards and procedures.

Qualifications

Minimum

• Bachelor’s degree in business, finance, accounting or engineering or related discipline or equivalent experience
• Eight years of experience including process improvement implementation, report maintenance and development, product deployment, and change management

Desired

• Masters in accounting, business, finance, or engineering
• SAP Certification
• Green Belt Lean Six Sigma
• PMP Certification
• Eight years in an SAP/Business Warehouse (BW) operations and maintenance support environment
• Instructor capability
• Business planning experience
• Accounts Payable experience

Compensation

PG&E provides the salary range that the company in good faith believes it might pay for this position at the time of thejob posting. This compensation range is specific to the locality of the job. The actual salary paid to an individual will bebased on multiple factors, including, but not limited to, specific skills, education, licenses or certifications, experience,market value, geographic location, and internal equity.Although we estimatethe successful candidate hiredinto this rolewill beplaced between the entry point and the middle of the range, the decisionwill be made on a case-by-casebasis related tothese factors.This job is also eligible to participate in PG&E’s discretionary incentive compensation programs.

A reasonable salary range is:

• Bay Area Minimum: $129,000.00
• Bay Area Midpoint: $168,000.00
• Bay Area Maximum: $207,000.00