Associate Business Finance Analyst

Requisition ID # 162102 

Job Category: Accounting / Finance 

Job Level: Individual Contributor

Business Unit: Finance

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland

Department Overview

PG&E’s Business Finance team provides critical financial support to its operational Business Partners within the company.  This support includes but is not limited to financial analysis, budgeting, planning and forecasting, monitoring, performance metric reporting and analysis.  These services are critical to achieving the company’s strategic, operational and financial objectives.

Position Overview

The Associate Business Finance Analyst will support Electric Operations.  You should display strong verbal and written communication skills, analytical and quantitative skills, with a background in finance or accounting. This role will interact with various levels of internal stakeholders.

You will serve as a business partner focal point for all finance and accounting, including planning, budget, forecasting, tools, and optimization analysis. You will integrate with the client organization and become a trusted financial and strategic thought leader. In sum, you will balance and utilize your functional expertise, intellectual curiosity, ethics, and interpersonal skills to build and maintain integrative relationships and ensure best in class decision support and recommendations.

This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and the Oakland General Office in-person based on business needs.

PG&E is providing the hourly rate range that the company in good faith believes it might pay for this position at the time of the job posting. This compensation range is specific to the locality of the job. The actual hourly rate paid to an individual will be based on multiple factors, including, but not limited to, specific skills, education, licenses or certifications, experience, market value, geographic location, and internal equity. Although we estimate the successful candidate hired into this role will be placed between the entry point and the middle of the range, the decision will be made on a case-by-case basis related to these factors.​ 

This job is also eligible to participate in PG&E’s discretionary incentive compensation programs.

The hourly rate for this position ranges from $32.69 to $49.04.  

Job Responsibilities

• Works with department to develop budget (expense, and capital expenditures), monitor, forecast and report against budget
• Works with others on the analysis and validation of multi-year plans and results

• Assists with managing Orders and PCC/RCC hierarchy for partners to ensure reporting is systematically supported
• Support standardization of financial reporting, analytics, and modeling across business units
• Assists with journal entry preparation and review, as needed

Qualifications

Minimum:

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent experience or training

Desired: 

• Minimum of one year of analytical experience (business, mathematics, statistics, engineering - based)
• Ability to follow directions and guidance and to engage in learning and training.
• Competency in actively learning through experimentation when tackling new problems, using both successes and failures as learning opportunities.
• The ability to maintain composure, keep emotions in check, control anger, and avoid aggressive behavior, even in difficult situations.
• The ability to develop reports, models, and simulations.
• The ability to conduct research.
• Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.