Business Analyst - East - OPA

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This position requires travel to the plants located on the North East.

** Business Analyst, Generation Support - Operations Planning & Analysis*
* ** Job Summary*
* The primary function of this position is to support NRG's generation fleet.

Responsibilities include:

+ Supporting Power

SAM and project economic analysis,

+ Supporting the Asset Integrity Process and Dashboards,

+ Maintaining Unit Characteristic (UC) Portal and facilitating updates,

+ Preparing Outage Management summary reports, and

+ Summarizing and presenting financial and operational data to executive management.

This role requires a strong technical understanding of conventional power generation assets combined with excellent organizational and problem-solving skills as well as the ability to work collaboratively across various functional groups.

** Essential Duties/Responsibilities:*
* Job responsibilities include but not limited to:

+ Manage Power

SAM and fleetwide guidance in the creation of Power

SAM project economic analyses and risk ranking to ensure consistent project prioritization and decision analysis,

+ Manage Power

SAM interface with FPR through exports and imports of data including validation of data,

+ Responsible for Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 compliance and 302 certifications for Power

SAM controls.

+ Maintain the Unit Characteristic (UC) Portal and facilitate updates and approval workflow,

+ Support the Asset Integrity Process, Registry, Equipment Scorecard and Dashboard,

+ Assist in the preparation and review of operational and financial results, forecasting activities and variance reporting in coordination with FP&A (FPR, SAP, Power

SAM, Plant Characteristics, and Planned Outage Schedules),

+ Reconciliation of data across multiple systems,

+ Utilize multiple data sources to collect, consolidate and analyze plant data and disseminate information to meaningful reports and/or presentations to executive management,

+ Utilize data sources for ad hoc reporting,

+ Design and implement tools, develop dashboards and visualizations to facilitate the timely communication and reporting of data that leads to more effective and efficient decision making,

** Working Conditions*
* + Hybrid work environment with office opportunities in either Houston, Pittsburgh, or Princeton.

+ Business travel to plant sites and corporate offices will be common and will require overnight trips.

+ Willingness to work outside normal business hours as necessary especially during critical issue resolution and to achieve project milestones.

** Minimum Requirements*
* + Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite products such as Excel, Word, Teams, and Power Point

+ Able to pull data from multiple sources and consolidate in a clear and concise format for reporting.

+ Strong mathematical skills to support data - driven decision making.

+ Ability to analyze data to identify trends and create data visualization.

+ Attention to detail and being able to reconcile data to verify accuracy.

+ Fundamental knowledge of how power plants operate.

** Preferred Qualifications*
* + BS/BA degree in Business, Engineering, Computer Science, or Mathematics or related quantitative field.

+ 3+ years of industry experience with at least 1 year or more directly related to plant operations or heavy industry required.

** Additional Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities*
* + Proficiency, or willing to develop proficiency, in Power

BI and dashboard development.

+ Proficiency, or willing to develop proficiency, in specialized NRG business applications such as Power

SAM, Power

GADS, FPR, UC portal, OSS and SAP.

+ Decision making, problem solving, analytical analysis and critical thinking skills required.

+ Strong written and verbal communication skills are required as well as the ability to work collaboratively across various functional groups. This will be demonstrated across large and small groups of peers or superiors.

+ Will be highly organized and able to prioritize deadlines in work-intensive environments.

+ Will remain focused and calm in the face of distractions and changing priorities and will have the ability to influence others to do the same.

If you reside in or intend to work remotely from California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Minnesota, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Washington D.C., Washington State or another state or locality with a pay transparency law, you may contact  for compensation information related to this position and other information as required by applicable law. Please include the job title in your request.

** Physical Requirements*
* ** Demand*
* ** Frequency*
* Required travel to plant sites to perform duties and responsibilities.

25-30%

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