Senior Business & Technical Consultant

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The Grid Integration Interconnection department collaborates with internal and third-party customers that have submitted generator interconnection requests for solar, battery, and other generation energy sources. The department works cross functionally with Power Grid Operations, Renewable Service Center, Resource Planning, Finance, and other departments to support the interconnection queue and meet the carbon plan targets. Within the Interconnection department, the Interconnection Business Controls team provides oversight for the financial processes to support the interconnection procedures. This includes collaborating with Account Managers, and other departments on process development supporting state and federal regulated interconnection procedures, performing financial analysis on projects to interconnect new facilities, modeling cost allocation across multiple generators, tracking payments and securities received, and invoicing and refund processes. The incumbent will develop familiarity with interconnection queue process and financial analysis of facilities during the interconnection process for study and construction.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

Interconnection Queue Cost Allocation Support

• Subject matter expert on interconnection procedures for NC, SC, and Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) jurisdiction projects.

• Become subject matter expert on Interconnection Cluster study cost and withdrawal penalty cost allocation requirements defined in state and federal interconnection regulations. Maintain cost allocation models to allocate study and withdrawal penalty credits as prescribed in interconnection procedures.

• Become subject matter expert in Transmission Provider study penalties as defined in FERC Order 2023 and allocation of penalty credits back to interconnection customers.

• Create project IDs in Powerplan for Cluster studies and communicate guidance to Transmission, Distribution and Grid Integration.

• Serve as data analyst in executing Cost Allocation Reporting Tool (CART) application project plan, a first in kind in-house tool being developed to track and report on estimate revisions, calculate cost allocation to facilities, and track project financial data.

• Maintain CART tool with estimate revisions and financial projects used as inputs for reporting, financial analysis, customer billing, and cost allocation processes downstream.

• Become an expert on the cost allocation for the cost responsibility of the construction of network upgrades across multiple generators as identified in the cluster study process.

• Develop understanding and expertise on cost recovery mechanisms and their resulting accounting implications and financial statement impacts.

• Build and maintain cost allocation of actual costs incurred for each cluster as projects move to construction. Provide monthly deliverables to Finance and Project Controls to book journal entries related for cost allocation.

Interconnection Queue Financial Analysis

• Monitor and analyze cluster study costs and collaborate with lines of business to ensure costs are captured prior to customer billing.

• Create and analyze required reports for leadership including calculating KPI metrics and driving actions resulting from metric results. This includes preparing construction cost and schedule metrics, studies completed on time, contracts tendered on-time.

Process Development and Automation

• Support implementation of new interconnection management system by participating in process mapping, data readiness, and other implementation requirements.

• Facilitate business process discussions with business stakeholders across multiple departments creating process maps and establishing roles and responsibilities as new business needs arise.

• Support development of new reporting and PowerBI dashboard requests.

• Provide data governance to ensure CART is kept to-date with latest study and financial project information.

• Participate in further design of the CART application in the technology roadmap to automate cost allocation and data upload capabilities.

• Define detailed business requirements for IT to use in building CART application.

• Perform business user acceptance testing for CART application sprint releases prior to moving to production.

• Bachelors Degree in Business Administration, Technical Business Administration, Business, Information Technology, Communications, Mathematics, Statistics or other related degree

• In addition to required degree, three (3) year minimum of related work experience

• In lieu of Bachelor degree AND three (3) years minimum of related work experience listed above, High School Diploma/GED AND 7 years minimum related work experience

• Masters Degree

• Business Process Management Certification

• Change Management Certification

• Six Sigma

• Project Management Professional

• Experience in the utility industry.

• Behavioral Competencies:
  - Innovating Change
  - Collaborating and working with others
  - Problem Solving / Decision Making
  - Delivering Results

• Good Working knowledge of T&D work processes

• Budget or financial analysis experience

• Skilled in project management theories and principles.

• Skilled in practices of planning, data analysis, evaluating alternatives, and preparing and presenting recommendations

• Ability to deal with a variety of individuals from various socio-economic, cultural and ethnic backgrounds.

• Excellent written and oral communication skills.

• Excellent problem solving and analysis skills

• Negotiation and conflict management skills

• Demonstrated leadership within Duke Energy.

Working Conditions

• Hybrid - Work will be performed from both remote and onsite locations after the onboarding period. However, hybrid employees should live within a reasonable commute to Duke Energy Plaza

Travel Requirements

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