Prin Business Analyst - BGE; Project Initiation Team

Principal Business Analyst

The Principal Business Analyst is a critical member of BGE’s Project Initiation Team, responsible for establishing centralized ownership, visibility, and escalation of early-stage project risk for major Transmission capital projects. This role ensures that strategic, financial, and execution risks are identified, structured, and actively managed before projects transition into Centrally Managed execution.

Partnering closely with Project Initiation leadership, Project Controls, and Investment Strategy, the Principal Business Analyst leads risk identification during project initiation, develops and maintains standardized risk registers, and provides portfolio‑level risk insights to inform governance decisions and capital forecasting. By integrating risk, scope, schedule, and cost perspectives, this role strengthens readiness, improves financial predictability, and ensures critical issues are surfaced and escalated early;

before they impact execution, regulatory outcomes, or portfolio performance.

In addition, this role is responsible for portfolio‑level risk monitoring across all Centrally Managed projects. The Principal Business Analyst maintains a consolidated view of risk exposure, identifying trends, systemic issues, and emerging threats that may impact the capital portfolio. This includes tracking time‑sensitive risks, decision points, and mitigation commitments to ensure risks do not stagnate or lose visibility as projects progress.

Acting as an early‑warning function, not a project firefighter, the role ensures the right risks are elevated to the right stakeholders at the right time, enabling proactive leadership decisions and stronger portfolio governance.

The Principal Business Analyst does not perform project execution activities. Instead, the role focuses on enabling successful execution by ensuring that risks are clearly understood, quantified where possible, and aligned with mitigation strategies prior to project handoff. This position plays a key role in transforming fragmented, siloed initiation practices into a disciplined, transparent, and enterprise‑aligned project initiation framework.

Position may be required to work extended hours for coverage during storms or other energy delivery emergencies.

• Develop and drive short‑term and long‑range business planning. Conduct complex modeling, forecasting, trending, variance analysis, business case development, and other financial and operational analysis (e.g., operational effectiveness, budget, resource, workload, workforce and capacity utilization, competitor, etc.). (35%)
• Provide statistical information to ensure the most effective utilization of personnel, equipment and/or materials for business operations.
• Monitor and coordinate activities to manage operational performance (e.g., safety, reliability, service level, productivity, etc.), make recommendations for improvement and implement change. (40%)
• Track, maintain, analyze and provide current information on the operation's business scorecard or key performance indicators (KPIs).
• Perform complex analysis of the operation's cost elements to ensure effective and efficient operations. (20%)
• Prepare and analyze comprehensive and detailed reports.
• Develop, organize and present detailed performance reports for both internal and external use.
• Develop, implement, evaluate or lead projects or initiatives (e.g., business plan or process improvement initiatives).
• Provide expert analytical and operational support to the business unit.

• This is an individual contributor position that works independently with little or no supervision. The position requires integration of business knowledge and functional priorities to address complex problems and non‑standard situations. The position regularly mentors less experienced colleagues.
• Position requires routine interaction with key internal and external stakeholders, executives, directors, managers and staff across the organization.
• May require working extended hours and/or shift work to support business operations.

• BA/BS in Business, Economics, Political Science, Public Policy or Engineering…