Senior Financial Feasibility Analyst – Utility Power Projects

Socket.dev; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) Power Enterprise seeks a qualified professional to lead financial feasibility analyses for large load projects and electrification initiatives, developing business cases, NPV/IRR, and long-term risk assessments.

You will collaborate across Finance, Engineering, Reg/Leg, Customer Engagement, and provide training, documentation, and centralized records to support knowledge transfer and audit readiness.

Qualifications

• Four years of journey-level work experience in planning, scheduling, cost estimating, or related fields.
• Bachelor's degree or higher in a related field may be substituted with additional qualifying experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead financial feasibility evaluations for large load projects and strategic electrification initiatives, including development of comprehensive business cases and valuation analyses (NPV, IRR, payback, and cost recovery assessment).
• Develop and enhance project financial models to evaluate capital investment, revenue sufficiency, rate impacts, and long-term financial exposure.
• Conduct project sensitivity, scenario, and risk analyses to assess load uncertainty, market volatility, regulatory changes, and potential stranded asset risk.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather inputs, validate assumptions, and ensure analytical consistency.
• Improve model structure and functionality by incorporating validation checks, documentation, and version control practices to enhance reliability and transparency.
• Develop and document consistent project evaluation methodologies, including cost estimation, forecasting approaches, discounting assumptions, and performance metrics.
• Prepare clear, concise executive-level reports, presentations, and decision memoranda summarizing findings, risks, trade-offs, and recommendations.
• Organize and maintain centralized records of assumptions, models, and historical analyses to support transparency, continuity, and audit readiness.
• Provide training and structured knowledge transfer to internal staff and support implementation of documented processes to enable transition of analytical capability into regular business functions.

Skills

Financial modeling

Scenario analysis

Risk analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Baccalaureate degree

Job description

San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) Power Enterprise seeks a qualified professional to lead financial feasibility analyses for large load projects and electrification initiatives, developing business cases, NPV/IRR, and long-term risk assessments.

You will collaborate across Finance, Engineering, Reg/Leg, Customer Engagement, and provide training, documentation, and centralized records to support knowledge transfer and audit readiness.