UTILITIES PRINCIPAL ANALYST
- . For responsibilities list: many duties separated by periods. We'll make each duty a
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Similarly for qualifications: Education, Experience, Highly Desired Qualifications could be separate sub-sections? But we only have headings for Qualifications (maybe we can include subheadings? Not allowed? The instruction only says use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). It doesn't forbid other headings inside? It says use
for section headings (list). Likely we should only use those headings as top-level sections. Inside we can use
and
- . We can also use for emphasis but not needed.
Thus:
- ... ...
- Education: ... ... but that mixes. Probably better to keep as
- ... each benefit.
- . Now Qualifications: Education: Equivalent to a Bachelor's Degree from an accredited college or university with major work in accounting or business administration. A Certificated Public Accountant licensure is highly desirable. Experience: Six years of responsible experience in governmental or commercial accounting and/or auditing, preferably with utilities. One year of supervisory experience is desirable. Highly Desired Qualifications: Experienced in leading cash flow analyses, financial reporting, and planning models to support both short- and long-term financial planning. Skilled in developing, administering, and monitoring financial models that incorporate utility operations, facility cash flows, and budget assumptions. Strong accounting background including journal entries, trial balance work, reconciliations, and support for year-end audit processes. Experienced in managing property and facility financials, including budgets, cash flows, lease administration, payment tracking, and revenue forecasting. More than three years of experience supervising and developing staff, improving workflow efficiency and strengthening team capability. Advanced Excel capability (Pivot tables, v-lookups, other complex formulas). We could also include "Selection Process Documents Required At The Time Of Application Completed Employment Application Completed Supplemental Questionnaire Resume and Letter of Interest" etc. That's part of application instructions; we should remove application instructions per instruction: "Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions." So we drop that. Now Benefits: we need to capture all details. Let's parse benefits paragraph: "Benefit Level II includes
About the role
... include description, eligibility list, note about salary range top 15%, selection process overview, etc.
Responsibilities
Qualifications
Education: ...
Experience: ...
Highly Desired Qualifications: ...
But we might want to put Education, Experience, Highly Desired as- items? Could be
with bold labels. Skills: we could extract from Highly Desired Qualifications: Advanced Excel capability etc. Could be separate Skills section. But we already have Highly Desired Qualifications under Qualifications. Might be redundant. The instruction: Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. So maybe combine Skills into Qualifications. But we have a separate Skills heading allowed; we could put skills there. However we need to avoid thin sections. If we put Skills with just a few items, maybe okay. But we could also incorporate into Qualifications. Let's decide: We'll keep Qualifications covering Education, Experience, Highly Desired Qualifications (which includes skills). Then we can omit Skills section to avoid thin. Benefits: we have a big block. We'll make
Benefits
and thenFor additional benefits information, please visit ...
. But the instruction says remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate. That link is not boilerplate; it's a benefits info link. Might keep. But we should not include the URL as plain text? It's okay. Now we need to ensure we don't repeat job title as heading. We'll not. Now produce HTML fragment. Let's craft About the role paragraph: "The City of Riverside, Public Utilities Department (RPU) is accepting applications for the position of Utilities Principal Analyst to fill one vacancy in the Administrative Division. The eligibility list established may be used to fill current and/or upcoming vacancies within this classification for up to six months. For positions indicating a salary range from 1N – 2X, the top 15% of the pay range cannot be offered upon hire or upon an employee promotion. Under general direction, the Utilities Principal Analyst performs supervisory and/or lead supervisory professional, technical, analytical and related duties in the areas of accounting, budget administration, financial and economic forecasting for the Public Utilities Department and does related work as required. The selection process begins with an employment application package screening; the best-qualified candidates are invited to participate in further assessments, which may include written, performance, and oral evaluations. Candidates who successfully complete the process are placed on the eligibility list for this classification. If selected, candidates may be required to self‑schedule assessments and will receive email notifications with instructions. Appointment may be subject to a pre‑employment background investigation, drug screen, and/or medical/physical examination." We should also mention that positions requiring a California Commercial Driver’s License are safety sensitive etc. That's also part of selection process. Could include. Now Responsibilities list: we need to capture each duty from "Work Performed Typical duties may include, but are not limited to, the following:" then list. Let's extract each bullet: - Oversee the work of assigned staff; train employees on work methods and procedures, financial planning, economic and budget analysis, cost of service and rate design activities and procedures. - Participate in the development of policies and procedures to improve the Public Utilities Department's financial and administrative operations, including developing section goals, objectives, policies and priorities. - Provide highly technical expertise in the areas of budget administration, financial planning, cost of service, rate design and economic analysis. - Provide oversight and training to Utilities Management in budget theory, methodology and techniques regarding budget planning. - Analyze departmental financial and administrative systems and procedures; develop and implement new accounting and/or financial systems. - Analyze a variety of monthly and quarterly financial reports and statements for the department, bond rating agencies, materials related to electric and water rates and fees, federal and state agencies, Board of Public Utilities and City Council. - Oversee departmental accounting-related activities within the Department and with other City Departments, including the annual audit and the development of applicable reporting and monitoring systems. - Analyze proposed water and electric projects, perform cost-benefit analysis, recommend course of action, and provide justification including fiscal reliability/risks of such projects. - Oversee cash flow analyses, financial reports, planning models, and other analysis to assist in short and long-term financial planning for the electric and water utilities; develop, administer and monitor financial models; develop forecasts of revenues, expenses and fund balances for the Department. - Monitor the five-year financial forecast for the water and electric utilities, modify complex computer models as necessary to reflect changes in supply plans, rate designs, consumption levels, capital plans and policies, economic conditions or other applicable factors. - Ensure revenues, expenses and fund balances comport with budget and Department policy; develop changes in Department fiscal policy, as needed. - Respond to financial and rate surveys and requests for information from other utilities, governmental and outside agencies. - Make presentations to the Public Utilities Board and City Council when necessary. - Monitor recording of Utility revenues. - Prepare the revenue budgets for the electric and water utilities. - Testify as an expert witness before the Public Utilities Board and City Council regarding cost of service studies and on revenue requirements and rate design. - Prepare rate case testimony by analyzing financial and rate information; developing charts and graphs. - Serve as Utilities Finance/Rates Manager as required. We'll make each a