Job Title: Regulatory Data Coordinator

Work Place Flexibility: Hybrid 

Legal Entity: Entergy Operations, Inc.-EOI 

 

**This position is located in New Orleans, LA or Little Rock, AR. **

Job Summary & Purpose

Supports the Utility Rates & Pricing organization by ensuring that the growing data needs required for Operating Company rate filings and for internal reporting are provided timely through coordination with the appropriate IT, billing, and/or other data owners with the Company. Responsible for timely and accurate organization and coordination of the data required for the customer load research, external allocation factors development, regulated rate filings and the development of new pricing structures.

 

Job Duties/Responsibilities

This role will work closely with stakeholders and will be the primary liaison between Regulatory Services, the IT organization (including appropriate parties in BD&I), sales forecasting, UII system administrators for the customer data required to support the Operating Company regulated rate filings, new pricing structures and sales forecasting. Responsible for developing and deploying new analytical solutions and tools; enhancing and optimizing current analytical techniques; and supporting the growing analytical needs of the Company as data collection efforts expand and new products and service needs are identified.   Leverage AMI and customer data to enhance the Company’s ability to better address emerging analytical customer-focused needs. This position will work closely with IT, data engineers, and data architects to provide business requirements that are well-defined and understood to ensure that new data analytics solutions align with enterprise data management strategy and are prioritized to meet regulatory filings and business strategy requirements. Provide project and regulatory filing coordination for the planning, scheduling, and development of load research sample sizes and in-depth design, analysis, and utilization of load research data within the utility. Provide overall project planning, resource allocation, training, guidance and oversight to support staff.  Provide timely reporting of project status, issues identification, development of potential solutions recommendations to Utility Rates & Pricing leadership. Escalate issues when necessary to ensure the achievement of major milestones: issues with source data, platform performance, data ownership, implications of AI and machine learning models in a regulatory context. Represent and advocate for the Utility Rates & Pricing organization on cross-functional teams when major changes to data infrastructure or design are being contemplated or implemented. Analysis performed by the position will be shared within Entergy to support the various regulatory initiatives and ultimately impacts Entergy’s regulatory rate requests, planning for generation assets and load resource management, customer view, and product and services offered to the customer. Must possess data engineering skills, strong analytical proficiency and the ability to prepare accurate data for use in cost-of-service studies for rate case development, rate design, demand and energy forecasting, demand side management, energy efficiency, commercial development and innovation, accounting and sales, and other job functions. Analysis performed by the position will be shared within Entergy to support the various initiatives underway that have an analytical need which will ultimately impact Entergy’s regulatory processes, customer care systems, and products and services offered to the customer.

Provide expert written and oral testimony and respond to discovery before the APSC, MPSC, PUCT, LPSC, FERC and the New Orleans City Council on load research, AMI data, or other data issues

Experience working with large enterprise databases with demonstrated ability to independently query and prepare data for analysis. Experience in translating and documenting business needs to technical requirements. Self-starter with ability to working independently with minimal guidance. Design, modify and build new data processes. Must possess a broad knowledge of and recent experience in: utility operations and analytical methods and techniques employed in load research, external allocations and pricing and rate design processes; statistical methods used in sample design, sample selection and data expansion as well as in techniques of data collection, processing, and analysis;  electric usage characteristics and parameters such as units of measure and the impacts of those on the utility’s operation; and business requirements of internal departments concerned with customer data, such as Utility Pricing & Analysis, Regulatory Research, Regulatory Affairs, System Planning, and the requirements of external regulatory agencies. proficiency in or the demonstrated ability to learn quickly the technologies available to the Company’s citizen developers: LodeStar (Oracle), SAS, SAP (CCS and BW), Power BI, advanced Microsoft Excel, advanced Microsoft Access, VBA, python (Anaconda and Jupyter notebooks), Impala, Hive, HUE, Spark, Cloudera, Linux and Windows server environments, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Snowflake, SQL Server Management Studio, T-SQL, UIPlanner (P2R), Salesforce. Excellent interpersonal and communications skills, especially with communicating technical issues to non-technical audiences. 

 

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

Minimum education required for the position:

Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Physics, Engineering, Economics, Math, IT or related field Preferred: MBA or advanced degree
 

Minimum experience required of the position:

Minimum 5+ years of experience in electric and gas utility data analysis and/or regulatory filings coordination or 10+ years of professional relevant experience. Preferred: Desired candidate will have 7+ years of experience in a relevant role within the electric utility industry Desired: Minimum 3+ years with UII regulatory models, python programming, customer data analytics, electricity pricing experience, customer load research, customer load profile development, electric utility billing, rate administration, and/or highly related experience. Minimum 3 years project management experience.

Minimum knowledge, skills and abilities required of the position:
Strong analytical, problem solving and critical thinking skills.  Attention to details.  Self-starter and requires minimal supervision.  Advanced PC skills utilizing Python programming, experience in data analytics, database development, Microsoft Office and other business applications.  Strong ability to develop detailed spreadsheets required.  Ability to perform analysis and convert that analysis into a meaningful summary for which to make business decisions and recommendations.  Excellent organizational skills and project management skills.   Ability to prioritize work and work effectively on multiple assignments simultaneously.  Flexible and able to adjust to changing priorities.  Effective oral and written communication skills.  Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work effectively in a diverse team setting.  Willing and able to perform other duties as required and learn new processes and technologies.

Any certificates, licenses, etc. required for the position:
None

Primary Location: Louisiana-New Orleans Louisiana : New Orleans || Arkansas : Little Rock 
Job Function: All Other Jobs
FLSA Status: Professional 
Relocation Option: No Relocation Offered
Union description/code: NON BARGAINING UNIT 
Number of Openings: 1
Req ID: 117647
Travel Percentage:Up to 25%

An Equal Opportunity Employer, Minority/Female/Disability/Vets. Please click here to view the EEO page, or see statements below.

EEO Statement: The Entergy System of Companies provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a protected veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. The Entergy System of Companies complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment including, but not limited to, recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training. 

The Entergy System of Companies expressly prohibits any form of unlawful employee harassment based on race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status. Improper interference with the ability of the Entergy System of Company employees to perform their expected job duties is absolutely not tolerated.

Accessibility: Entergy provides reasonable accommodations for online applicants. Requests for a reasonable accommodation may be made orally or in writing by an applicant, employee, or third party on his or her behalf. If you are an individual with a disability and you are in need of an accommodation for the recruiting process please click here and provide your name, contact number, the accommodation requested and the requisition number that you are requesting the accommodation for. Employee Services will contact you regarding your request.

Additional Responsibilities: As a provider of essential services, Entergy expects its employees to be available to work additional hours, to work in alternate locations, and/or to perform additional duties in connection with storms, outages, emergencies, or other situations as deemed necessary by the company. Exempt employees may not be paid overtime associated with such duties.

Entergy Pay Transparency Policy Statement: The Entergy System of Companies (the Company) will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the Company’s legal duty to furnish information.  41 CFR 60-1.35(c). Equal Opportunity and Pay Transparency.

Pay Transparency Notice:

Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision (dol.gov)

The non-confidential portions of the affirmative action program for individuals with disabilities and protected veterans shall be available for inspection upon request by any employee or applicant for employment.  Please contact HRCompliance@entergy.com to schedule a time to review the affirmative action plan during regular office hours.

EEI Testing:

One way that Entergy has found to identify and assess the abilities and skills needed for certain jobs is through pre-employment testing. If this position does require an EEI test, the type of test will be located under the qualifications section of the job posting. If you are invited to a test session, we strongly recommend you review and complete the practice test as well as review the testing brochure for your respective test.  The test brochure will give you critical information on the test such as time allocated and number of questions.  Also, keep in mind that the actual test is timed; you should practice timing yourself while doing the practice tests. The practice test information and test brochures can be located by going to the EEI website, http://www.eei.org/practicetests, Logon ID:  entergy, password:  practice test (2 words). Travel expenses incurred in connection with EEI testing are non-reimbursable.

In addition to EEI testing there is also Fit-for-Duty testing which will identify and assess the abilities and skills needed for certain jobs. If this position does require Fit-for-Duty testing, the type of test will be located under the qualifications section of the job posting.

WORKING CONDITIONS:
As a provider of essential services, Entergy expects its employees to be available to work additional hours, to work in alternate locations, and/or to perform additional duties in connection with storms, outages, emergencies, or other situations as deemed necessary by the company. Exempt employees may not be paid overtime associated with such duties.

Please note: Authorization to work in the United States is a precondition to employment in this position. Entergy will not sponsor candidates for work visas for this position.