Puget Sound Energy Inc

Senior Business Support Analyst - Asset Management System Planning

Puget Sound Energy Inc$82K — $136K *
Energy & Utilities
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Associate's degree in business, economics, or finance with 5 years of analysis experience, or equivalent education/work experience.
  • Experience with relational databases for querying and reporting.
  • Proficient in business applications and analysis tools like SAP BW, Excel, and Power BI.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills.
  • Demonstrated problem-solving and project management skills.

Responsibilities

  • Analyze business data to identify performance trends and asset risks.
  • Develop and maintain data extraction processes using SAP and SQL tools.
  • Create metrics, dashboards, and analyses in collaboration with asset planners.
  • Implement and coordinate enhanced reporting capabilities and business system improvements.
  • Maintain, troubleshoot, and enhance Power BI reports for stakeholders.
  • Evaluate and automate reporting processes to improve data management efficiency.
  • Participate in enterprise initiatives for data quality and reporting standards.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Life, short-term, and long-term disability insurance.
  • 401(k) investment options and cash balance retirement plan.
  • Flexible spending accounts for health care and dependent daycare.
  • Paid Time Off (PTO) and Paid Holidays throughout the year.
Full Job Description
Job Description

The Senior Business Support Analyst is responsible for business analysis, data management, reporting, and decision support for electric distribution and transmission asset lifecycle planning within System Planning. Works with data from SAP HANA, SAP BW, GIS, Excel, Access, and Power BI environments to develop reporting solutions, support capital planning analytics, and maintain business performance metrics. Partners with asset planners, engineers, IT, and data stakeholders to improve data quality, data governance, and reporting consistency. Develops and maintains data extraction, conditioning, validation, and reporting processes that enable reliable, data-driven planning and investment decisions. This role focuses on business analysis, reporting, data quality, and decision support and is not a software development, data engineering, or data science position.

Job Responsibilities

  • Uses business analysis, data management, trend analysis, forecasting, and reporting techniques to identify performance trends, asset risks, and planning opportunities.
    • Responsible for maintenance, enhancement, and development of data extraction techniques using SAP HANA, SAP BW, GIS, SQL, Power BI, Excel, VBA, and Macros.
    • Develops metrics, dashboards and recurring analysis, in partnership with Asset Management Planner.
  • Develops and maintains data extraction, conditioning, validation, and reporting processes using SAP HANA, SAP BW, SQL, Power BI, Excel, VBA, and Macros.
  • Coordinates implementation, testing, and deployment of enhanced reporting capabilities, business system improvements supporting accessibility of data used for Asset Management programs.
  • Responsible for PowerBI report maintenance, enhancements, troubleshooting, and training for internal and external stakeholders, when necessary.
  • Assesses current business processes, automates reporting solutions, and evaluates data management practices to develop improvements that enhance program efficiency, consistency, and data consumption.
  • Supports and participates in enterprise initiatives for data quality, governance, and reporting standardization.


Minimum Qualifications

  • Associate's degree in business, economics, finance, or related, and 5 years quantitative/qualitative analysis; or equivalent combination of education and/or work experience.
  • Experience working with relational database sytems (querying, analysis, reporting).
  • Solid written, interpersonal, and group communication skills.
  • Experience using a variety of business applications and analysis tools such as Access, Visio, PowerPoint, Excel, statistical software, SAP Business Warehouse, SAP modules, and Cognos.
  • Excellent problem solving skills.
  • Project management skills.
  • Ability to understand and explain technical concepts.
  • Excellent writing, communication and customer service skills.
  • Strong time management and organizational skills.
  • Experience in providing guidance and direction to lower staff.
  • Ability to take initiative and work both independently and as part of a team to accomplish objectives.


Desired Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in related field.
  • 5-8 years utility-related experience.
  • Related business-specific experience may include:
    • Advanced relational database experience (MS Access, SQL, Oracle).
    • Experience performing advanced statistical analyses (such as predictive analytics, regression forecasting, data visualization and/or survival analytics).
    • Experience with CSEE Systems (CSY, CIS, CMS).
    • Experience in Crystal Reports and Adobe Acrobat Pro.
    • Programming language (Visual Basic, SQL, VB.NET, HTML).
    • Knowledge of rate-making process.
    • Familiarity with Fabric.
  • Process documentation and improvement experience.


Additional Information

The pay range for this position is $82,000.00 - $136,300.00, and this position is eligible for annual goals based incentive bonuses.

PSE offers a suite of benefits to our employees. Employees are eligible for medical, dental, vision, basic life, and short- and long-term disability insurance. There are additional voluntary options of supplemental life insurance, accidental death and dismemberment insurance, flexible spending accounts for health care and dependent daycare, and an Employee assistance program (EAP). For long term savings, PSE offers a 401(k) investment option and a cash balance retirement plan. Employees will also receive Paid Time Off (PTO) and Paid Holidays throughout the calendar year. Detailed benefit overviews can be found on our Career page - Why Work For Us (pse.com).

About Puget Sound Energy Inc

Puget Sound Energy Inc is an energy company that provides electricity and natural gas to customers in the Pacific Northwest. The company was founded in 1886 and is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington. Puget Sound Energy Inc serves over 1.5 million customers and has a generating capacity of over 3,700 megawatts. The company is committed to sustainability and has set a goal to reduce its carbon emissions by 50% by 2040. Puget Sound Energy Inc has received numerous awards for their work including the ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year Award and the Green Power Leadership Award.
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