Power Grid Operations (PGO) Compliance, Regulatory and Planning Manager

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This position is responsible for providing technical, business, and leadership skills across PGO to one or more of the following areas:

• Lead regulatory planning and support efforts for federal and state regulatory requests, requirements, processes and filings. This includes Transmission and/or Distribution related rate case filings, witness testimony and exhibits development, witness preparation, data request processes, preparation of regulatory compliance filings as well as responding to complex Power, Quality and Reliability Customer Complaints.
• Lead regulatory compliance and other compliance efforts. This includes Transmission and/or Distribution related regulatory orders.
• Lead business case development and documentation, new business proposals and applications, including regulatory Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA) and data requests, as well as continuous refinement and calibration of value frameworks across functions, both within and external to deterministic modeling software and investment planning tools
• Partner with department leadership to assess regulatory, compliance, and capital funding challenges and opportunities, identify long-term solutions, assist in the development of controls, implementation strategies, and various additional assigned duties, as appropriate, to achieve assigned objectives
• Lead the development and optimization of a rolling five-year capital investment plan, including collaboration across teams, functions, and jurisdictions at all levels with a portfolio approach ensuring governance to balance operational needs and risks, regulatory recovery mechanisms, strategic commitments, project delivery constraints, and utility company financial constraints in alignment with each State President's integrated regulatory plans and commitments.

In support of expanding federal funded business programs, this position will lead development and oversight of a federal-regulatory Program Management Office (PMO) oversight structure, facilitate regulatory compliance planning, provide advanced ad-hoc analyses, and spearhead the development and improvement of a matrix-supported federal regulatory compliance processes. This position will provide expert level leadership and consultancy for programs and projects which are part of an annual investment portfolio in-excess of $7B.

Additional roles and activities include providing technical, business, and SME-level support across assigned business function to identify and mitigate work-related challenges, and to pursue efficiencies associated with work processes, procedures, systems and tools. This position will play a key role in department leadership to identify long-term opportunities to be explored, develop implementation strategies, and various other assigned roles, as appropriate, to achieve identified objectives.

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance Accounting, Economics or Other related degree
• In addition to bachelor's degree, five (5) years minimum of related work experience
• In lieu of Associates degree(s) AND 5year(s) related work experience listed above, High School/GED AND 10 year(s) related work experience

• 10+ years of increasingly diverse or complex experience in related field
• MBA or other related advanced degree
• Must be able to analyze and interpret data, resolve problems quickly, and synthesize a variety of information from numerous sources
• Ability to represent company before regulatory bodies, public and professional groups
• Ability to convey complex, regulatory and technical, and financial challenges and concepts in a simple, clear and concise manner
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex initiatives and projects with a highly effective collaborative approach
• Ability to concisely communicate to a variety of audiences, including subject matter expert teams and senior leadership.
• Strong working relationship with departments such as Legal, Rates and Regulatory, Finance, Distribution, Transmission, Enterprise Major Projects, Grid Integration and Customer Groups.
• Prior experience with capital budget planning, complex financial analysis, portfolio optimization, deterministic models, and/or capital investment planning tools
• Strong influencer and self-starter that can work with minimal direction
• Ability to collaborate effectively in a team environment
• Prior utility experience with and/or knowledge of regulated utility business model and integrated planning for the power grid
• Strong understanding of industry challenges and opportunities
• Ability to work under time pressure and manage multiple work streams while delivering quality products.