Rate & Financial Analyst

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Who We Are:  

PSE is an electrical energy expert that provides relationship-driven engineering and consulting services for forward-thinking partners who pursue long-term energy solutions.  Check out our website at: www.powersystem.org  

What We Are Looking For:  

As a Rate & Financial Analyst at PSE in our St. Paul, MN, Office, your primary responsibility will be providing analysis and consulting services to PSE clients for various economic and financial engagements. This role works closely with senior staff and project teams, assisting in developing utility pricing, cost allocation studies, and other economic and financial analyses. The position requires a desire and ability to grow in critical thinking skills while producing reliable and accurate analysis that helps provide consulting solutions to various “problems” brought to us by our clients. A successful candidate must excel in time management and efficiently manage multiple assignments to meet project and team schedules and budget commitments. PSE focuses on achieving high levels of client satisfaction; therefore, candidates must have a desire to exceed client expectations and be proficient and willing to advance in areas of client communications and relationship capabilities.  

What You Will Be Doing:  

• Core Values: Embrace, uphold, and live out PSE’s core values around People, Problem-Solving, and Progress 
• Participate in completing various utility rate, economic, and financial studies in a project team environment. 
• Help prepare cost allocation studies to assess and design utility wholesale and retail rates for various services provided. 
• Prepare a comparison of utility rates between various utilities for various types of electrical uses. 
• Assist with developing and evaluating innovative rates and policies that promote customer engagement, improved efficiency, cost reductions, beneficial electrification, revenue stability, etc. Examples include rates and policies such as electric vehicle charging, distributed energy resources, net metering, demand-side management, and time-of-use rates. 
• Assist in preparing analysis and exhibits as needed to support expert testimony. 
• Develop forecasts of sales, costs, and revenues using trend or regression analysis as might be needed.
• Process, clean, analyze, and summarize large datasets to identify trends, develop innovative pricing structures, estimate billing impacts and customer behavior changes, and develop cost allocation factors. 
• Assist in developing and promoting service offerings around innovative rates, pricing programs, customer segmentation, operational improvements, etc. Such services are expected to require the use and development of skills related to data processing, measurement and verification of impacts, short-term and long-term forecasting, modeling/predicting participation, pattern recognition and machine learning, survey design and administration, and related skills 
• Managing and documenting progress on assigned tasks, deadlines, and budgets for multiple projects simultaneously 
• Gathering, processing, and visualizing substantial amounts of data in Microsoft Excel, R and/or RStudio, Python, and Microsoft PowerBI. 

What You Will Need:  

Education and Experience 

• A bachelor’s degree in business, economics, or mathematics is strongly preferred. 
• 1 – 8 years of related experience in consulting and/or a utility industry. 

Knowledge and Skills  

• Possess strong organizational skills needed to participate in multiple project teams simultaneously while completing tasks on time, on target, and within budget. 
• Possess the ability and drive to produce excellent work products, analyze and learn new concepts, develop skills, and be a strong team player. 
• Value client relationships. 
• Possess integrity, honesty, accountability, and strong moral principles. 
• Must have a strong working knowledge of Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Word. 
• Ability to work with large data file sets and manipulate them into workable formats. 
• Basic knowledge of electric utility systems and an interest in data analytics are a plus. 

Compensation:  

• Salary Range: $74,519 - $ 109.627 annually. 

This salary range reflects the anticipated base salary for one minimum relevant year of experience to eight maximum relevant years of experience. The successful candidate will be placed at a level commensurate with the candidate's relevant years of experience, education, and technical expertise.  

Benefits:  

• Discretionary annual performance-based profit-sharing bonus
• 401(k) retirement plan and employer safe harbor contribution
• Cell phone reimbursement
• Comprehensive health, health savings account (HSA), dental, vision, flexible spending account (FSA) & dependent care reimbursement account
• Life insurance, short & long-term disability, and other voluntary coverages
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Paid time off, including holidays and volunteer time off (VTO) to serve our communities.
• Professional development opportunities and educational assistance

PSE is an equal opportunity employer that encourages all its employees to grow, learn, and expand their roles in ways they can be creative and best accomplish the client’s needs.  We assess qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. 

Disclaimer: We are committed to fairness and transparency in our hiring process. Compensation may be adjusted based on the candidate’s experience, education, qualifications, market conditions, and internal equity. 

PSE 

(Power System Engineering) 

                                                 We want you to grow. We want you to learn. We want you to expand with us.