Principal IT SAP Functional Analyst - Powerplan

Pacific Gas and Electric; Oakland (CA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 238,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as an IT SAP Functional Analyst, where your expertise in PowerPlan will drive strategic technology solutions. You will play a crucial role in analyzing complex business processes and configuring systems to meet evolving business needs. Your contributions will enhance operational efficiency and support critical decision-making processes. This dynamic position offers the opportunity to collaborate with diverse teams and influence technology decisions that shape the future of the organization. If you're passionate about technology and ready to make a significant impact, this role is for you.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in IT with 8 years as a Functional Analyst in PowerPlan.
• Strong knowledge of SAP modules and accounting concepts.

Responsibilities

• Configure, implement, and maintain PowerPlan modules.
• Analyze business requirements and develop integrated IT solutions.

Skills

Functional Analysis

Business Process Analysis

Project Management

Communication Skills

Accounting Concepts

Interacting with Technical Teams

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology or related field

Tools

PowerPlan

SAP

S4HANA

ERP Systems

Job description

Requisition ID# 163149

Job Category: Information Technology

Job Level: Manager/Principal

Business Unit: Information Technology

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland

Department Overview

Information Systems Technology Services is a unified organization comprised of various departments that collaborate effectively to deliver high-quality technology solutions. The SAP Electric Ops Work Management Delivery organization provides SAP IT services to the Electric line of business. The organization is responsible for strategic technology planning, roadmap development, solution design, solution delivery, and solution support.

Position Summary

The role IT SAP Functional Analyst PowerPlan is to configure, implement, maintain, and upgrade PowerPlan all modules. The Functional Analyst analyzes business requirements, creates functional design documents, and performs PowerPlan system configuration and localization to provide system solutions for the Line of Business and IT organizations. This role is viewed as an integral strategic partner and business liaison in technology decisions and provides ongoing PowerPlan system support. This includes analyzing business requirements and developing integrated IT and complex business solutions.

A reasonable salary range is:

Bay Area Minimum: $140,000.00

Bay Area Maximum: $238,000.00

This new teammate needs to be able to come to Pacific Gas and Electric Company's Oakland headquarters 3 days a week, since all project team is here in person Tuesday to Thursday.

Responsibilities

Business Support and Consulting:

• Define standard processes in PowerPlan and drive adaptation in Finance and Tax areas.
• Analyze end-to-end complex business processes across all modules within PowerPlan.
• Understand in detail the current and future business environment of the business organizations; effectively anticipate, identify, and fully meet the business needs using an integrated approach leveraging existing and new PowerPlan capabilities.
• Identify, propose, and influence IT solutions to complex cross-organizational business problems utilizing ERP capabilities; negotiate requirements and deliverables across multiple business and IT customers and organizations.
• Evaluate current customizations in the system to help business and IT partners understand risks and costs of customizing vs. using standard functionalities, advocating for using standard functionalities to lower future implementation cost and total cost of ownership (TCO) for solutions.

Functional Analysis:

• Automate/optimize PowerPlan system
• Map business requirements to SAP S4 system capabilities and configure to meet requirements
• Review design and technical specification documents for alignment with business solution
• Perform PowerPlan configuration and do quality review and testing activities

Qualifications

Minimum:

• 10 years of job-related experience in Information Technology
• 8 years of experience as a Functional Analyst in PowerPlan system

Desired:

• Familiarity with CR, PM, Asset/ARO, Depr modules and their data flow
• Project creation, estimating, approval
• Collecting and classifying charges (derivations and true-up)
• In-service and completion of work orders
• PowerTax and Tax Repairs
• Creating checks and balances to prevent data issues in automated processes
• Lease Accounting Module (if PGE uses PowerPlan)
• Month-End Close Processes
• PowerPlan Integration Tools
• SDLC and Integration Best Practices/ETL processes

Additional Desired:

• SAP
  - Familiarity with SAP tables and structure
  - SAP GUI experience and documenting integrations
  - Hana Experience- SAP settlement process and integration impacts with PowerPlan/capital projects

• S4HANA ERP Implementation and Upgrades
  - Large ERP projects, integrations with forecasting and FP&A systems
  - Dashboarding tools for metric tracking

• Functional Skills
  - Accounting Concepts in Asset Management/Depreciation
  - Mass property accounting
  - Group depreciation- Various asset retirement methods
  - ARO accounting
  - Book vs. tax depreciation

• GAAP vs. FERC Accounting Concepts
  - FERC system of accounts and new accounts for renewables and Software/hardware/communications equipment effective 01/2025
  - AFUDC/CPI/capitalized interest
  - Managing differing capitalization/recovery schedules for GAAP vs. FERC- Rate cases, depreciation studies, and supporting documentation for assets in GRC - Clauses and tracking recovery costs separately from normal rate base assets
  - Mergers and Acquisitions/Divestitures

• Non-Technical Skills
  - Interacting with both technical and non-technical team members to resolve issues
  - Communicating success/failure stories to management teams