Associate Energy Portfolio Analyst, Settlements
About The Position
The Associate Energy Portfolio Analyst, Settlements supports the Settlements team with day-to-day tasks related to financial settlements, billing calculations, and data reconciliation within the Florida Municipal Power Pool (FMPP). The role focuses on high-volume data entry, organizing files, and learning billing and settlement processes. The Associate helps ensure that data and billing information are accurate, complete, and ready for review by senior team members. The position analyzes and reconciles operational and financial data used for monthly settlement billing for utility members. Responsibilities include compiling and validating invoices, performing reconciliations, investigating discrepancies across data sources, and supporting the allocation of energy- and transmission-related costs. The Associate also assists with audit requests, prepares reports, and helps maintain settlement process integrity. The role works with internal business partners and external utility stakeholders, with opportunities to develop expertise and progress toward more independent settlement processing and advanced analytical responsibilities.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Finance, Accounting, Business, Data Analytics, or a related field from an accredited college or university.
- Minimum of six months of experience supporting business operations in electric utility operations, settlements, energy markets, production cost analysis, accounting, or data analysis.
- Working knowledge of invoice processing, business process support, data entry, metrics and reporting, and project support.
- Strong Excel skills, including data validation, lookup logic or functions, pivot tables, error tracing, and troubleshooting large datasets.
- Financial and accounting knowledge, including cost allocation, variance analysis, reconciliations, and multi-entity labor or cost recovery.
- Strong written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
- Strong attention to detail and a desire to learn the electric utility industry.
- Ability to prioritize and coordinate multiple assignments to meet deadlines.
- Ability to develop reports, documents, analyses, manuals, and guides.
- Ability to interpret and adhere to FMPP governing documents, procedures, and settlement requirements.
- Ability to understand financial records and perform arithmetic computations, including rates, ratios, and percentages.
- Ability to use Microsoft Office Suite, including Word, Excel, and Outlook, and standard office equipment.
- Ability to investigate discrepancies, exercise sound judgment, manage competing priorities, maintain accuracy under deadlines, and escalate issues appropriately.
- Ability to collaborate with internal stakeholders and external utility partners and handle confidential information with discretion.
- Demonstrated learning agility and intellectual curiosity to learn settlement processes, specialized calculations, utility systems, and exception-based workflows.
Nice To Haves
- Experience in utility operations, energy markets, settlements, or other regulated industries.
Responsibilities
- Compile and organize invoices from members, vendors, contractors, and consultants.
- Perform routine reconciliations to ensure data entries match source documentation.
- Send daily operational communications to FMPP members and assist in scheduling committee calls.
- Assist in navigating PCI and OATI systems, performing data exports, and preparing routine reports with guidance from senior staff.
- Retrieve invoices or other data requested by auditors during quarterly reviews.
- Assist in processing energy and transmission invoices with counterparties.
- Support maintenance of the FMPP Outage Planning Tool to optimize seasonal scheduled resource maintenance outages.
- Compile and validate invoices, investigate discrepancies across data sources, and support allocation of energy- and transmission-related costs.
- Assist with audit requests and prepare reports.
- Maintain accurate, complete billing and settlement data for review by senior team members.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation.
- Low-cost medical, dental, and vision benefits and paid life insurance premiums with no probationary period.
- Hybrid Retirement Program with a fully funded cash balance account, defined contribution with employer matching, and a health reimbursement account.
- Generous paid vacation, holidays, and sick time.
- Paid parental leave.
- Educational assistance, including tuition reimbursement, paid professional association memberships, and paid conference and training opportunities.
- Wellness incentives and free access to on-site OUC fitness facilities.
- Access to family-oriented recreational areas.
- Hybrid work schedule.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
