TEOCO's Audit team is seeking a smart, self-motivated, and collaborative candidate. This is a great opportunity to gain or build upon experience in consulting, developing a foundation of utility invoice knowledge and learning software tools.
Responsibilities:
Candidate will lead a small team of individuals that would complete the following:
- Auditing and optimization of rates (contracts/tariffs) in deregulated and regulated markets; detailed analysis of usage sensitive charges (electric, gas) to pinpoint incorrect rates or opportunities to decrease cost in the future
- Identify incorrect combinations of charges billed based on client profile; leverage inventory and source systems to identify opportunities for data quality improvement,
- Disputes of charges inaccurately billed, and/or disconnection of services no longer in use - this may involve work with field representatives of the client.
- Evaluate the status of charges associated with sites in "temporary" status.
- Investigate any flat-rated charges associated with landlord sites and look for consolidation opportunities where clients have more than one business entity at the same site; and evaluate the application of taxes and surcharges to client accounts.
- Identified issues will be logged into a database of record for vendor action and/or client action and approval.
- Team will be responsible for ensuring approved issues are worked to closure, any associated benefit to the client is captured, and, if applicable, amounts invoiced to client.
- Lead will be expected to work with internal programming and system teams to automate processes as much as possible
Required:
- Bachelor's Degree, preferably in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Math or Statistics.
- Solid understanding of utility costs structures and regulations (electric, gas, water).
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Solid organizational skills
- Superior software PC skills in MS Office Suite
Desirable:
- 5+ years of experience working in utility audit and optimization environment.
- Prior exposure to Alteryx, Python, and/or R.
- Prior experience with software querying tools.
Department Business Services Role Audit Services Locations USA Remote status Fully Remote
