Oglethorpe Power Corporation is hiring: Analyst II - Sr. Analyst in Tucker

Are you ready to power up your career with one of the nation's largest electric cooperatives? At Oglethorpe Power, we're seeking a talented Analyst to join our dynamic team. Here you'd play a pivotal role in ensuring our financial systems operate seamlessly and efficiently. You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams to analyze, design, and implement financial solutions that support our mission of providing reliable, cost-effective energy to millions of Georgians.

Scope of work:

• Manage financial systems to enable budgeting, financial analysis, and reporting
• Working with/enhancing current financial models (mainly in SQL and Jedox)
• Supporting the department with detailed analysis to determine application systems requirements
• Streamlining and process improvement across budgeting, forecasting systems, and reporting

Job Duties:

• Perform budget and forecast tasks to support the completion of the annual budget and long-range financial forecast. This includes utilizing budgeting software (Jedox & SQL), generating data for internal and external customers, analyzing data and reports, and investigating errors and discrepancies.
• Implements or assists with change in business rules and logic; coordinates and performs maintenance and revisions to highly customized application.
• Business Process Analysis: work with business stakeholders, consultants, and developers to analyze business functions, define functional requirements, and identifies potential system and application improvements. Effective communication is critical.
• Create and maintain detailed documentation of business systems and processes, ensuring accuracy and clarity for users and stakeholders. This includes process flows, system configurations, and operational procedures.
• Responsibilities may include interaction and communication with senior company management.
• Support the completion of the monthly financial reviews. Query databases, gather data, maintain existing data views, and generate new data visualizations as needed.
• Support the completion of other analysis projects. Communicate across departments, develop analysis models, and document assumptions and results.

Required Qualifications:

Education: Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering, Math, Finance, Economics, or related field.

Experience:

Analyst II: 2 - 4 years in electric utility generation planning or related field including, financial forecasting, power supply planning, budgeting, and/or financial systems.

Analyst III: 4-6 years in electric utility generation planning or related field including, financial forecasting, power supply planning, budgeting, and/or financial systems.

Sr Analyst: 6+ years in electric utility generation planning or related field including, financial forecasting, power supply planning, budgeting, and/or financial systems.

Specialized Skills:

• Strong SQL Skills
• Comfortable working with large data sets and complex financial models
• Experience with Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) systems such as Jedox, Adaptive Insights, Anaplan, etc., is a plus.
• Requires strong Excel skills, including organization, manipulation, and analysis of large data sets.
• Understanding of financial statements, including the income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statement, and how they are interrelated.
• An understanding of several of the following is helpful: generation planning, forecasting, power system operations, production cost modeling, electric utility rate-making, accounting, financial reporting.