What are the responsibilities and job description for the Analyst II - Sr. Analyst position at Oglethorpe Power Corporation?
Are you ready to power up your career with one of the nation's largest electric cooperatives? At Oglethorpe Power, we're seeking a talented Analyst to join our dynamic team. Here you'd play a pivotal role in ensuring our financial systems operate seamlessly and efficiently. You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams to analyze, design, and implement financial solutions that support our mission of providing reliable, cost-effective energy to millions of Georgians.
Scope of work:
- Manage financial systems to enable budgeting, financial analysis, and reporting
- Working with/enhancing current financial models (mainly in SQL and Jedox)
- Supporting the department with detailed analysis to determine application systems requirements
- Streamlining and process improvement across budgeting, forecasting systems, and reporting
Job Duties:
- Perform budget and forecast tasks to support the completion of the annual budget and long-range financial forecast. This includes utilizing budgeting software (Jedox & SQL), generating data for internal and external customers, analyzing data and reports, and investigating errors and discrepancies.
- Implements or assists with change in business rules and logic; coordinates and performs maintenance and revisions to highly customized application.
- Business Process Analysis: work with business stakeholders, consultants, and developers to analyze business functions, define functional requirements, and identifies potential system and application improvements. Effective communication is critical.
- Create and maintain detailed documentation of business systems and processes, ensuring accuracy and clarity for users and stakeholders. This includes process flows, system configurations, and operational procedures.
- Responsibilities may include interaction and communication with senior company management.
- Support the completion of the monthly financial reviews. Query databases, gather data, maintain existing data views, and generate new data visualizations as needed.
- Support the completion of other analysis projects. Communicate across departments, develop analysis models, and document assumptions and results.
Required Qualifications:
Education: Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering, Math, Finance, Economics, or related field.
Experience:
Analyst II: 2 - 4 years in electric utility generation planning or related field including, financial forecasting, power supply planning, budgeting, and/or financial systems.
Analyst III: 4-6 years in electric utility generation planning or related field including, financial forecasting, power supply planning, budgeting, and/or financial systems.
Sr Analyst: 6 years in electric utility generation planning or related field including, financial forecasting, power supply planning, budgeting, and/or financial systems.
Specialized Skills:
- Strong SQL Skills
- Comfortable working with large data sets and complex financial models
- Experience with Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) systems such as Jedox, Adaptive Insights, Anaplan, etc., is a plus.
- Requires strong Excel skills, including organization, manipulation, and analysis of large data sets.
- Understanding of financial statements, including the income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statement, and how they are interrelated.
- An understanding of several of the following is helpful: generation planning, forecasting, power system operations, production cost modeling, electric utility rate-making, accounting, financial reporting.
Salary : $86,000 - $127,000
