Modeling, Forecasting, and Economic Analysis, Senior Advisor

Join the Clean Energy Revolution as a Modeling, Forecasting, and Economic Analysis Senior Advisor at Southern California Edison (SCE). In this role, you’ll advance SCE’s energy efficiency portfolio by developing performance tracking and enhancement tools, improving forecasting methodologies, and strengthening business processes. Your work will support data-driven decision-making, effective portfolio oversight, and continuous improvement across programs that help customers use energy more efficiently, improve affordability, and contribute to California’s electrification and clean energy goals.

Responsibilities

• Ensures forecasts incorporate new distributed energy resource (including energy efficiency, demand response) forecasts and policies.
• Drives key studies to determine the financial and operational impact of changes in company assets or the business environment.
• Delivers applied economic analysis and reporting on overall market performance and efficiency, the impact of proposed revisions to market rules, and market participant behavior.
• Participates in the design of the framework to identify and quantify consumer detriment in relation to pricing.
• Uses benchmarking models to identify examples of disproportionate pricing and suggests options for preventing or resolving potential market design problems, inefficiencies, gaming, market manipulation, or non-compliance with market rules.
• Collaborates with internal stakeholders regarding forecast methodology and analysis to ensure deliverables meet their needs.
• Assesses the viability of new investments and the attractiveness to investors; conducts economic analyses of alternative approaches to energy and/or environmental policies.
• Sets up and executes in-house software and prediction tools to translate long-term resources into energy production for a wide variety of equipment configurations.
• Collaborates with forecasters to understand how load and price forecasts can be improved to meet new challenges.
• A material job duty includes ensuring the protection of all physical, financial, and cybersecurity assets, and properly accessing and managing private customer data, proprietary information, and other highly sensitive data with the highest standards of conduct and integrity.

Employees are expected to support emergency response and/or business continuity efforts, including readiness to serve on an Incident Management Team (IMT) when needed. Participation in an on-call rotation (approximately every four to six weeks) is required to support IMT activations during emergency events. IMT assignments may differ from regular responsibilities.

Requirements

• Ten or more years of experience performing modeling, forecasting, or economic analysis and reporting.
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Economics, Public Policy, Finance, Data Analytics, or a related field.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong business acumen and energy efficiency experience, with the ability to advise leadership, assess portfolio gaps and opportunities, develop programs and initiatives, support solicitations and contract execution, and apply market, operational, regulatory, and financial insights to improve compliance, customer outcomes, portfolio performance, and business results.
• Strong analytical, quantitative, and strategic problem-solving skills, with experience using forecasting, modeling, optimization, scenario analysis, risk assessment, and economic analysis to translate complex data into actionable recommendations.
• Experience developing and implementing governance frameworks, business processes, forecasting methodologies, performance metrics, analytical tools, and continuous improvement initiatives that enhance energy efficiency decision-making, transparency, operational effectiveness, and organizational performance.
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex, cross-functional initiatives; set strategic direction; manage multiple high-priority workstreams; and deliver results in dynamic business, regulatory, and operational environments.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and facilitation skills, with the ability to synthesize complex technical, operational, regulatory, financial, and analytical information into clear, decision-oriented messaging for executive, governance, regulatory, and external stakeholder audiences.
• Knowledge of utility and energy efficiency regulatory policies, agencies, and stakeholders.

Schedule

This position’s work mode is hybrid. The employee will report to an SCE facility in Irwindale, CA, for a set number of days with the option to work remotely on the remaining days. The work mode can be changed based on business needs.

About Southern California Edison

The people at SCE don’t just keep the lights on. Our mission is to fuel innovation that’s changing an entire industry—and quite possibly the planet. Join us and create a future with cleaner energy while providing our customers with safety and reliability. At SCE, you’ll have the chance to grow personally and professionally, making a real impact in Southern California and around the world.