Analyst-Business 3

Southern California Edison•Pomona, CA

14h•Hybrid

About The Position

The Analyst-Business 3 supports planning, scoping, scheduling, and analysis for inspection programs across Distribution and Transmission, including inspections in high-fire and non-high-fire areas, annual grid patrols, streetlight patrol surveys, infrared scanning, and intrusive pole evaluations. The role supports internal and external inspection teams and helps ensure timely, accurate inspection delivery and risk mitigation. The position manages program schedules, contractor deliverables, quality assurance, risk assessment, reporting, stakeholder communications, and financial planning and execution. It develops and refreshes scope packages and work orders, coordinates with stakeholders to improve scoping strategies, maintains lessons-learned and change-control records, and tracks access-related exceptions and constrained inspections. The role also conducts routine and ad hoc data analysis, performance monitoring, cost analysis, and discrepancy research. It uses inspection and business systems to investigate data synchronization issues, assess trends, validate dashboard reporting, and coordinate issue resolution with internal inspection and IT teams. The analyst develops and supports data-management tools, reports, and dashboards to improve management visibility and identify follow-up actions.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, Statistics, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
Five to seven years of experience in the field of analysis.
Demonstrated ability to perform moderately complex quantitative analysis, including gathering, documenting, and analyzing data and information and drawing conclusions.
Knowledge of data management, including data structure and controls design, data querying, and report development.
Time-management skills to align work resolution with workflow and inspection due dates.
Ability to engage multiple subject-matter experts across organizations, present issues and potential solutions, and secure stakeholder and support-partner buy-in.
Project-tracking skills, from issue identification and causal analysis through solution development and resolution.
Experience with data-visualization reporting and dashboard development.
Proficiency with the MS Office Suite, SAS, SAP, Power BI, SQL, Python, and Snowflake.
SAP experience navigating work orders, maintenance plans, mDocs, and FLOC/equipment data.
ArcGIS experience joining visual layers or maps, such as districts, FLOCs, circuits, hexbins, and constrained areas, to create usable data tables.

Responsibilities

Support scoping and planning for internal and external inspection teams across Distribution and Transmission programs.
Manage schedules for data collection and processing, contractor deliverables, quality assurance, risk assessment, and final delivery of inspection results.
Lead meetings throughout the inspection process, from data collection through risk review and distribution.
Develop, maintain, and distribute progress reports on inspection collection, processing, delivery, quality control, and risk evaluation.
Coordinate communications and manage impacts among contractors and internal stakeholders involved in inspections, data processing, and program support.
Manage inspection-program financial planning and execution.
Create scope packages and work orders, ensuring scope accuracy and compliance with applicable guidelines.
Collaborate with SP&E and Inspections to improve scoping strategy, including work-order bundling and reducing unnecessary visits.
Maintain and refine lessons-learned and change-control logs for planning and scoping.
Meet periodically with stakeholders to collect and review feedback for current and future planning efforts.
Prepare weekly performance reports and trackers, including UTC, Customer Access, CROPS, and Government Lands trackers.
Create KMZ files and perform spatial joins in Excel to identify potential access issues related to CROPS, Government Lands, and other constraints.
Create work orders for released access issues and provide vendors with appointment details, gate codes, special instructions, and contact information.
Track and oversee constrained inspections to mitigate non-compliant inspections and missed risk-mitigation commitments.
Reduce duplicate inspection charges related to access issues.
Assist with development and monitoring of data-management tools for timely, accurate status reporting and identification of workflow follow-up actions.
Monitor performance and track regular completion of various scopes.
Run regular weekly and daily reports, ad hoc internal and external reports, and special analyses to resolve issues and improve processes.
Prepare finance and cost-analysis reports and support issues such as contractor or internal data discrepancies.
Research data discrepancies in systems including SAP, InspectApp, and EZYViewer, using available analysis tools and systems.
Report historical performance by structure, region, resource, and other dimensions; identify synchronization issues; and analyze survey-result trends.
Validate that inspections populate in SAS and Power BI dashboards and follow discrepancies through resolution.
Communicate with InspectApp/InspectForce teams in Inspections and IT regarding synchronization issues and track their resolution.
Develop strategies and identify requirements, approaches, solutions, costs, risks, and options to address business needs.
Lead implementation activities for initiatives, applications, or feature sets and provide project documentation covering definition, requirements, conversion, testing, implementation, and training.
Prioritize initiatives by assessing business value relative to effort and developing options.
Collaborate with vendors to understand product direction, release strategy, and timelines.
Maintain knowledge of current and emerging computer and network systems technologies, architectures, and products.