IT Business Analyst III-US

Title: IT Business Analyst III
Location: Brooklyn/New York NY 11217 (Hybrid)
Duration: 12 months

Job Purpose:
Responsible for supporting Information Technology & Digital (IT&D) input to regulatory submissions and ensuring alignment of IT Business Plans to regulatory frameworks to mitigate against under recovery of investment. Supports the preparation of IT&D testimony and financial exhibits, responses to regulatory interrogatories, supports preparation of rebuttal testimony and witness preparation for evidentiary hearings in litigated rate case proceedings. The US Regulatory Strategy calls for the filing of at least three operating company rate cases per year for the foreseeable future to ensure that US IT investments are remunerated, cost recovery maximized, and regulatory lag minimized.

Regulatory:
Regulatory Experience with Regulators: Can you describe your experience working directly with regulatory agencies at the state or federal level? Which regulators did you interact with, what was the nature of those interactions, and were you responsible for representing your organization or responding directly to regulatory inquiries or requests?
Do you have any experience preparing reports for any regulator?
Regulatory Reports - If yes, what types of regulatory reports were you responsible for, how frequently were they prepared, and what was your specific level of ownership? Were you independently responsible for preparing, reviewing, and finalizing the reports, or did you work as part of a broader team?
Accountability for Regulatory Reporting - Can you describe your experience supporting or preparing regulatory reporting? Specifically, were you accountable for the accuracy and completeness of the information ultimately filed, or was your role primarily to gather and consolidate information provided by subject matter experts?
Regulatory experience:  Have you had direct responsibility for preparing responses to regulatory discovery requests? If so, what was your specific role in developing, reviewing, and finalizing the responses for submission to the regulator?

Finance Experience:
Financial analysis - What tools did you use, such as Excel, Power BI, SAP, or other financial systems, and how did you use them?
What types of financial reporting were you personally responsible for preparing?
How hands-on were you with the underlying analysis? Were you developing the analysis and validating the data yourself, or were you primarily collecting and consolidating information provided by others?
Once the financial analysis was completed, were you responsible for presenting the results to leadership and explaining the key financial drivers, variances, risks, or recommendations?

Bachelor Degree in Accounting or Finance
Regulatory experience
Experience/Advance Excel and Adobe skills

Qualifications Required:
Educated to degree level.
Preference: Accounting or Finance degree with regulatory experience
Relevant industry certification desirable
2 - 5 Years of Experience in related field

Job Dimensions:
Regional US responsibility, across three jurisdictions to support regulatory proceedings.
Directly supports the conduct of three concurrent OPCo rate case filings annually.
Supports the preparation of IT&D Testimony, Capital and OPEX exhibits for each rate case filing outlining the major business initiatives and IT&D priorities and costs being filed for recovery.
Participates in the preparation, review, editing and submission into the DREAM application and personally prepares hundreds of discovery phase interrogatory responses to questions received from Jurisdictional regulators and rate case intervenors related to each rate filing under ten calendar day submission deadline requirements (requires working nights and weekends to meet deadline requirements during peak times)
Supports the preparation of Rebuttal testimony and Witness Preparation Binders for Evidentiary Hearings in litigated regulatory proceedings and rate cases.
Supports the preparation of legal briefs and closing arguments for each rate case.
Influence over regulatory return on global annual investment in the order of $250m.
Supports regulatory and management audit reviews and compliance.
OP CO = Operating Companies    OPEX = Operating Expenditures

Main Interfaces:
Works with Corporate and Line of Business Regulatory and Legal teams for provision of IT&D requirements within regulatory submissions and to ensure mitigation against under recovery of investment within regulatory frameworks.
With IT&D Investment Planning and Performance (PMO) team to ensure regulatory alignment of IT Investment plan and coordinate benchmarking and other data requirements required in support of regulatory defence
With Corporate and IT&D Finance to coordinate accounting and reporting accurately reflects regulatory commitments and impacts
With IT&D Enterprise Architecture team to ensure alignment of regulatory submissions with architecture roadmaps
With IT&D Business Partners (Relationship Management) and IT Strategy team to ensure regulatory commitment for and alignment to the overall IT strategy
 
Key Accountabilities (please indicate if these are direct or indirect accountabilities):
All direct unless stated otherwise.
Supports input to IT Regulatory submissions to ensure alignment of IT activities to regulatory frameworks to mitigate against under recovery of investment.
Develops self during rate case filings to become a subject matter expert, supporting IT Regulatory and IT Portfolios in providing accurate responses to discovery requests.