Hybrid Principal Regulatory Analyst

at Pacific Gas and Electric Company

• Job title: Principal Regulatory Analyst
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: $140,000 - $238,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Oakland, United States

About the role

• Principal Regulatory Analyst responsible for developing regulatory strategy and advocating for PG&E with state and federal regulations. Leading policy implementation and managing complex regulatory issues for utility operations.

Responsibilities

• Develops, facilitates and strengthens relationships with regulators, industry experts and stakeholders to proactively advocate and communicate the Company's policy, business and regulatory positions to internal and external entities.
• Represents the Company in public forums as a subject matter expert by providing clear and persuasive positions on regulatory issues and company strategies.
• Leads and approves the identification, development, implementation, advocacy and resolution of complex policy/issues with regulators (state and federal with significant customer or financial impact).
• Leads interdepartmental and intercompany teams in the preparation of applications/filings, testimony, and work papers for regulatory proceedings before state and federal regulatory agencies.
• Performs and approves complex policy, regulatory and strategic analysis for issues that may have a short or long-term impact or affect multiple lines of business.
• Assimilates large volumes of information and distills into compelling arguments.
• Approves applications, filings, testimonies, exhibits, models, pleadings, discovery responses, summaries and other documents for regulatory proceedings.
• Examines and prepares expert witnesses and interventions for regulatory proceedings.
• May prepare and give testimony as an expert witness or as an intervenor before regulators.
• Informs director and senior management regarding regulatory developments including meeting outcomes, proposed regulations and timing of key regulatory decisions.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business, economics, public policy, finance, engineering or related discipline or equivalent utility industry experience
• Eight years of relevant work experience
• Electric engineer with experience in the utility industry to support technical interpretations and implementation of new compliance requirements.
• FERC utility policy experience or utility operational experience.
• Master’s degree or equivalent experience
• Regulatory, analytical, communications or public affairs related position.
• Electric industry experience.
• Experience in leadership or leading teams
• Advanced understanding of meaning and rationale of contract provisions; counterparty concerns; and the implications of specific contract language.
• Ability to lead contract and settlement negotiations.
• Ability to synthesize and distill highly complex data and findings to present in verbal and/or written format to diverse audiences; to lead Company regulatory activities and to lead discussions of gas procurement issues.
• Advanced collaboration and interpersonal skills to effectively build relationships with a wide variety of stakeholders.
• Ability to employ extensive subject matter expertise to anticipate and resolve complex issues with minimal information or supervision of a manager or director.
• Ability to analyze complex problems and make decisions despite incomplete information and limited time.
• Provides direction, training, guidance, and instruction to regulatory analysts in a work environment that fosters teamwork, information and experience sharing, constructive communication and professional and individual development.