City Of New York

Deputy Director, Energy Budget & Billing

City Of New York • $110K — $130K *
Energy & Utilities
Less than 5 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • Master's degree in relevant fields or Juris Doctor with two years of professional experience in budget administration or related areas.
  • Bachelor's degree with four years of relevant experience, including managerial roles.
  • Associate degree or 60 credits with six years of relevant experience, including managerial roles.
  • High school diploma with eight years of relevant experience, including managerial roles.
  • Combination of education and experience equivalent to the above, with a minimum of two years in relevant roles.

Responsibilities

  • Assist in developing the annual citywide HLP budget by collecting and analyzing data from agencies.
  • Prepare contracts and documents for utility bill payments, ensuring accurate financial tracking.
  • Handle monthly utility bill tasks, including data entry and invoice submissions.
  • Serve as a second reviewer for utility bills, ensuring proper cost allocation by budget code.
  • Track utility credits and respond to payment inquiries, providing analysis to leadership.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance options.
  • Retirement savings plans with employer contributions.
  • Generous paid time off and holiday schedule.
  • Opportunities for professional development and training.
  • Supportive work environment focused on sustainability and innovation.
Full Job Description
Job Description

The Division of Energy Management serves as the hub for energy efficiency and emissions reduction throughout NYC government operations, supporting our agency partners' progress towards the City's major emissions reduction and energy objectives. The Energy Management team concentrates their efforts in six areas: the City's energy supply, clean energy generation, demand response & load management, energy efficient operations & maintenance, energy efficiency retrofit projects, and energy training & innovation.

The Deputy Director, Energy Budget & Billing will be responsible for:

- Assisting in development of annual citywide HLP budget, including:
- Collecting information annually from agencies and other energy stakeholders on estimates of changes in energy; and analyzing and summarizing the information using existing processes;
- Developing additional processes for analysis and summary;
- Developing rate tables based on utility rate structures and commodity prices.

- Preparing contracts and related documents to enable payment of bills:
- Using the city's Financial Management System (FMS) to monitor and report on payments and contract balances;
- Recommending, approving and initiating budget modifications and encumbrances as appropriate;
- Performing all necessary reconciliations steps and processes to ensure accurate and timely accounting of utility payments; and any other related efforts to ensure completion of these tasks.

- Handling regular monthly tasks related to utility bills, under initial direction and methods and then with latitude for developing new methods:
- Perform data entries of paper bills where electronic bills are not provided;
- Submitting utility bill invoices for payment;
- Serving as second reviewer/approver of utility bills Providing billing cost allocation by budget code and agency;
- Issuing invoices and overseeing reimbursements;
- Tracking utility- and account-specific credit balance;
- Responding to utility payment inquiries;
- Analyzing and presenting results to department leadership.

To Apply:

Please go to www.nyc.gov/jobs, or www.nyc.gov/ess for current NYC employees, and search for Job ID #803616.

No phone calls, faxes or personal inquiries permitted.

Only those candidates under consideration will be contacted.

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Qualifications

1. A master's degree from an accredited college in economics, finance, accounting, business or public administration, public health, human resources management, management science, operations research, organizational behavior, industrial psychology, statistics, personnel administration, labor relations, psychology, sociology, human resources development, political science, urban studies or a Juris Doctor degree from an accredited law school, and two years of satisfactory full-time professional experience in one or a combination of the following: working with the budget of a large public or private concern in budget administration, accounting, economic or financial administration, or fiscal or economic research; or in management or methods analysis, operations research, organizational research or program evaluation; or in personnel or public administration, recruitment, position classification, personnel relations, labor relations, employee benefits, staff development, employment program planning/administration, labor market research, economic planning, social services program planning/evaluation, or fiscal management. Eighteen (18) months of this experience must have been in an executive, managerial, administrative, or supervisory capacity. Supervision must have included supervising staff performing professional work in the areas described above; or

2. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college and four years of professional experience in the areas described in "1" above, including the 18 months of executive, managerial, administrative, or supervisory experience, as described in "1" above; or

3. An associate degree or completion of 60 semester credits from an accredited college and six years of full-time satisfactory full-time professional experience as described in "1" above, including the 18 months of executive, managerial, administrative, or supervisory experience, as described in "1" above; or

4. A four-year high school diploma or its educational equivalent approved by a state's department of education or a recognized accrediting organization and eight years of full-time satisfactory full-time professional experience as described in "1" above, including the 18 months of executive, managerial, administrative, or supervisory experience, as described in "1" above; or

5. A combination of education and/or experience equivalent to "1", "2", "3", or "4" above. College education may be substituted for professional experience at the rate of 30 semester credits from an accredited college for one year of experience. However, all candidates must have a high school diploma and at least two years of experience as described in "1" above, including the 18 months of executive, managerial, administrative, or supervisory experience, as described in "1" above.

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