Senior Business Analyst- Business Specialist

About the role

PacifiCorp is seeking customer-centric candidates to grow and sustain our commitment to a culture of customer service excellence, environmental sustainability, inclusion and belonging.

Responsibilities

• Perform complex assignments lacking precedent and requiring creativity.
• Serve as a subject matter expert and provide training and communication of changes in policies and procedures.
• Provide advice or functional direction and assume a lead role in the work group.
• Research and analyze complex data.
• Report on performance and develop alternatives and recommendations for improvement to management.
• Lead implementation of selected alternative to various analysis projects.
• Promote a customer first culture and commit to delivering outstanding results for customers.
• Conduct analysis through research, gathering, and interpretation of data.
• Present analysis and recommendations to management and implement selected alternative.
• Maintain data impacting financial results, including reconciliation with other data sources.
• Validate California Independent System Operator - Extended Day Ahead Market (EDAM) generation, interties and load resources, ensuring adherence to SQMD plans.
• Validate meter data submissions to MRI-S for EDAM.
• Recommend and implement procedural improvements for building monthly loads as a predecessor to CAISO resource validations.
• Execute meter data completeness checks, identify anomalies, and perform root cause analysis on missing, late, or inconsistent interval data across MV90, BPA sources, JLS, and Joules.
• Prepare, package, and validate outbound MRI-S submissions, ensuring data meets CAISO format, timing, and quality requirements to support T+9, T+55, and monthly settlement cycles.
• Compare interrogated meter data against multiple sources and validate end-of-hour data in the Energy Accounting System.
• Analyze energy flow, single line diagrams, and transmission network diagrams, and propose alternate sources of meter data.
• Generate reports for data requests to meet customer needs.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Finance, Mathematics, Physical Sciences, or other applicable field; or the equivalent combination of education and experience.
• A minimum of four years of directly related experience in gathering, analysis, interpretation, trending, forecasting, and modeling skills.
• Proficient Microsoft Excel skills to compile, analyze, line graph and summarize complex data.
• Proficient with the use of personal computers including databases, word processing, and presentation applications to gather, analyze, and model information.
• Advanced communication and interpersonal skills to interface with team members and customers to promote positive customer outcomes.
• Ability to work with all levels of an organization, including people with different styles and backgrounds, and ability to work as a member on a team.
• Ability to present alternatives and recommendations.
• Teamwork skills to negotiate with and influence peers and management on policy and strategic issues.
• Knowledge of applicable company policies and procedures; applicable federal, state, and local governmental laws and regulations.
• Proven problem-solving skills.

Qualifications

• Minimum of five years related experience.
• Research and analysis skills including the ability to obtain relevant data, evaluate complex situations, develop creative alternatives, provide recommendations, and negotiate and influence outcomes.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills involving the ability to establish trust, maintain confidence, and understand social behavior and interactions.
• Ability to work with all organizational levels to influence actions and negotiate outcomes.
• Project management and leadership skills, including the ability to work as a team member, to maintain project timelines, budgets, and deliver on commitments.

Skills

• Knowledge and understanding of the electric utility industry and its regulatory and operating environments.
• Experience working with energy accounting and meter data.
• Experience with developing graphical reports to communicate results of complex analysis.
• Strong understanding of meter data reconciliation, including comparing MV90 interrogations against BPA, SCADA, PI, and Joules/JLS data sources to ensure interval level accuracy.
• Experience with interdepartmental data sharing, including coordination with Transmission, Grid Operations, Settlements, Load Forecasting, and Jurisdictional Loads to align MV90 and related datasets.
• Familiarity with grid operations, including how system topology, transmission constraints, and balancing area dynamics influence metering, load allocation, and EDAM settlements.
• Experience performing power flow analysis in Monarch, with the ability to interpret study results and understand impacts of outages, topology changes, and boundary meter implications.
• Working knowledge of EAS pyramid structure, including how data aggregates from meter profiles → accounts → load/resource groupings used in the net system load pyramid, operational reporting, and EDAM submittals.
• Familiarity with SCADA and PI DataLink tools to retrieve, trend, validate, and reconcile operational data for settlement quality processes.

Benefits

Additional Information
Req Id: 114768
Company Code: PACIFICORP #PM25
Primary Location: 100% ONSITE- Salt Lake City, UT
Department: CFO
Schedule: Full Time - M-F
Personnel Subarea: Exempt
Hiring Range: 77,200 - 122,100 Employees
Must be able to perform the essential functions of the position with or without an accommodation.
PacifiCorp is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion or religious creed, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status (except as required by law), gender (including gender identity and expression), sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, genetic information, physical or mental disability, medical condition, veteran or military status, familial or parental status, marital status or any other category protected by applicable local, state or U.S. federal law. Unless otherwise required by law, all offers of employment are contingent upon the successful completion of a background check and drug screening including for marijuana. While marijuana is legal in several states, including Oregon, a positive test for positions in Oregon may disqualify a candidate. The company complies with the laws of Washington and California and only obtains and considers positive tests for marijuana in safety-sensitive positions or those covered by U.S. Department of Transportation regulations.