About this role
Requisition ID # 175818 Job Category: Business Operations / Strategy Job Level: Individual Contributor Business Unit: Energy Delivery Work Type: Hybrid Job Location: Oakland Department Overview The Special Projects & Innovation (SP&I) department within Electric Operations Strategy drives strategic initiatives, operational innovation, and technology-enabled solutions that enhance safety, reliability, efficiency, and overall business performance across Electric Operations. Through cross-functional collaboration, the department identifies operational challenges and leverages advanced analytics, visual management, predictive modeling, process design and automation, and emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) to develop innovative solutions, strengthen operational capabilities, and translate strategic priorities into actionable improvements.
Position Summary
Business Analysts are responsible for research, data analysis, budgeting, forecasting, and reporting to support business decision-making, strategy, and operations. They may also be involved in business process improvement, quality control, special projects, and other initiatives. Responsibilities typically include many or all of the following:
- Data Analysis: Compiles and analyzes data. May develop and maintain data models for what-if analysis and other business purposes.
- Metrics and Reporting: Develops and tracks business metrics. Develops and maintains standard, custom, and ad-hoc reports.
- Budgeting & Forecasting: Develops or works with budgets and forecasts.
- Research: Research best practices; develop internal and external benchmarks supporting business decisions.
- Quality Assurance & Business Process Improvement: The quality assurance and business process improvement team may perform activities in support of the business. These activities may include developing, managing, or coordinating performance or quality assessment, business process re-engineering, change management, communication, and training.
- Project Management: Lead projects, determining scope, budget, timeframes, forming teams, assigning tasks, managing resources, and addressing issues.
- Process Documentation & Standardization: Develops, maintains, and updates business process documentation, standard operating procedures, and process maps to support operations
- Visual Management & Performance Monitoring: Develops and maintains visual management tools Work Location This position is hybrid and requires two onsite days per week in Oakland, CA. You will work from your remote office on the remaining days, based on business needs. Compensation PG&E is providing the salary 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 salary 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, collective bargaining agreements, and internal equity. Although we estimate the successful candidate hired into this role will be placed towards the middle or entry point 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. A reasonable salary range is: Bay Area Minimum: $102,000 Bay Area Mid-Point: $127,000 Bay Area Maximum: $152,000 Job Responsibilities
- Performs analysis on complex data models requiring customized reports and data.
- Develop new or revise existing data analysis to predict business outcomes by selecting from various complex variables.
- Develops and uses metrics to develop business strategy and operations recommendations. Presents findings and recommendations to leaders.
- Evaluates existing business processes, and recommends improvements to support continuous improvement initiatives
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather business requirements
- Manages small to mid-size projects.
Qualifications Minimum
- A Bachelor of Science in Business, Finance, Economics, Engineering, or a related discipline or equivalent work experience is required.
- Four years of related work experience Desired:
- MBA or graduate degree
- Broad knowledge of different analytical methods, approaches, and tactics
- Advanced understanding of fundamental analysis and what-if modeling concepts, methods, and techniques, and analysis of how different factors affect business outcomes.
- Creative problem-solving skills to develop solutions.
- Qualitative and quantitative analytical skills to justify any business changes.
- Strong presentation and communication skills to deliver findings and recommendations to various levels of management.
- Knowledge and understanding of key drivers affecting business results.
- Strong project management knowledge and skills to lead project teams.
- Excellent organizational, prioritization, and multi-tasking skills.
- Adaptable to changing business conditions and ambiguity.
- Proficiency in Microsoft 365, Project, Visio, SQL, Python, or similar software.