Senior Analyst, Benchmarking & Competitive Analysis - 518649

Position Purpose

Provides direct leadership and oversight in all aspects of highly visible and complex projects analyzing the competitiveness of TVA with relation to financial and operational performance measures, including rates reporting, industry benchmarks and other emergent focus areas.

Principal Accountabilities

• Serves as an expert in macro and holistic comparative analysis of TVA versus competitors in enterprise-level operational and non-operational processes, functions and performance metrics, including rates reporting.
• Supports senior leadership on significant technical, business, or external issues affecting TVA, including other expert resources as appropriate.
• May work independently and/or serve in a lead role of intra-group staff, to coordinate cross-organizational and/or cross-functional teams to evaluate and analyze corporate intelligence, benchmarking results and/or performance analysis.
• Provides support for the creation and development of internal executive-level presentations and communications.
• Build strong relationships with key internal teams to ensure up-to-date competitive intelligence and assumptions are shared with all appropriate members.
• Liaise with external stakeholders, vendors, analysts and consultants to ensure appropriate and consistent competitive information is communicated.
• Proposes topics for quarterly competitive intelligence forums, coordinates material preparation of those presentations for senior leadership and facilitates forum discussion.
• Proactively seeks out competitive intelligence data (both internally and externally) that would add value to the business.
• Actively participates in external organizations to improve competitive analysis processes and procedures.
• Provide guidance to intra-group staff to transfer knowledge and develop team capabilities to support competitive analysis programmatic responsibilities.

Minimum Requirements

• Education — A Bachelor’s degree is required. Field of study in accounting, finance, engineering, or business management is preferred. A Bachelor’s degree in a related field of study, with related education, training & experience will be considered. An advanced degree in accounting, finance, engineering, or business administration is desirable.
• Experience — Six or more years of experience in financial, operational and competitive analysis, preferably including experience in the utility industry. Consulting experience or direct experience in competitive analysis and benchmarking evaluation. Diverse business experience in multiple business units or external business environments.