Senior Business Specialist, Salt Lake , UT

Senior Business Specialist, Salt Lake City, UT #114453
location: Salt Lake City, UT, US, 84116
Company: Pacifi Corp

Pacifi Corp is seeking customer‑centric candidates to grow and sustain our commitment to a culture of customer service excellence, environmental sustainability, inclusion and belonging.

Provides advice and counsel to management and client organizations. Conducts special studies and analyses, develops alternatives, presents recommendations to management and influences management decisions. Researches, analyzes, develops and implements new strategies, programs, and/or processes in response to changing internal and external conditions.

Customer Focus and Leadership

• Promote a customer first culture and commit to delivering outstanding results for customers.
• Provide strategic leadership and mentorship across the Back Office for jurisdictional load concepts, EDAM settlements, and regulatory compliance, ensuring continuity of knowledge in high risk, low redundancy processes.
• Provide advice or functional direction and assume a lead role within the work group.

EDAM, SQMD, and Jurisdictional Load Expertise

• Serve as Pacifi Corp’s internal authority on Net System Load (NSL) within the jurisdictional loads framework, including stewardship of NSL construction logic across the EAS pyramid, Joules, and downstream CAISO EDAM settlements.
• Own and govern EDAM Settlement Quality Meter Data (SQMD) strategy and interpretation, including application of CAISO Tariff, BPMs, and audit expectations.
• Lead enterprise level Joules configuration and design decisions related to EDAM load and resource modeling, including meter to resource mappings, aggregation hierarchies, calculation logic, and data lineage across PI, EAS, MV 90, and external meter feeds.
• Act as senior escalation and decision authority for complex meter data movement issues, including reconciliation, root cause analysis of settlement variances, and resolution of conflicts with CAISO MRI S results.

Meter Data Validation, VEE, and Submissions

• Oversee and review daily validation, editing, and estimation (VEE) of SQMD for all EIM and EDAM participating resources prior to outbound MRI S submission.
• Execute meter data completeness checks and perform root cause analysis on missing, late, or inconsistent interval data across MV 90, BPA sources, JLS, and Joules.
• Review, package, and validate outbound MRI S submissions to support T+9, T+55, and monthly settlement cycles.
• Validate CAISO EDAM generation, interties, and load resources to ensure adherence to SQMD plans.
• Compare interrogated meter data against multiple sources and validate end of hour data in the Energy Accounting System.
• Analyze energy flow, single line diagrams, and transmission network diagrams and propose alternate sources of meter data.

Analysis, Reporting, and Continuous Improvement

• Gather and analyze critical information (demographics, condition, costs, lifecycle) from multiple sources.
• Audit business system data and examine actuals against targets.
• Analyze business processes, conduct special studies, develop alternatives, and present recommendations to influence management decisions.
• Report on performance and develop improvement recommendations for management.
• Lead implementation of selected alternatives for analysis driven projects. Generate reports to meet customer and stakeholder data requests.
• Identify and recommend policy, management, procedural, process, and system improvements.
• Identify opportunities to streamline meter data processes, automate validation routines, and improve reporting reliability.

Coordination and Market Readiness

• Support creation, review, and updates to ELAP, EIDE, and EDAM load/resource configurations within Joules and JLS.
• Assist with parallel operations testing, including functional, vendor, system integration, and customer specific testing for EDAM onboarding.
• Develop, maintain, and corroborate SQMD plans, including meter to resource mappings, aggregation rules, calculation logic, and data lineage documentation.
• Support Pacifi Corp’s annual SQMD affirmation and attestation obligations to CAISO.
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