Principal Strategic Efficiency Consultant

Portland General Electric • Portland, OR

10d • Onsite

About The Position

At PGE, our work involves dreaming about, planning for, and realizing a smarter, cleaner, more enduring Oregon neighborhood. Its core to our DNA and we haven’t stopped since we started in 1888. We energize lives, strengthen communities and drive advancements in energy that promote social, economic and environmental progress. We’re always looking for people passionate about leading and being a part of teams that are advancing innovative clean energy solutions that are also affordable and accessible to all. We are seeking a strategic, analytical finance professional to join our team in an enterprise-facing role focused on budgeting, financial planning, and driving business impact. In this position, you will partner with senior leaders to translate complex financial data into clear insights, identify opportunities for cost savings and efficiencies, and proactively guide decisions that support operational and financial performance across the organization. The ideal candidate will bring a proven track record of performing complex financial analysis and delivering compelling, data-driven recommendations that improve efficiency, reduce costs, and create measurable value—preferably within a utility company or similarly regulated environment.

Requirements

• Requires a bachelor’s degree in business, communications, organizational development, psychology or other related field or equivalent experience.
• Typically eight or more years in project management, change management, process improvement, strategic finance, cost transformation, consulting or a related field.
• Advanced knowledge of project management, change management and/or process improvement methodologies and standards.
• Advanced knowledge of and skill in using software applications used in department.
• Advanced knowledge of business process re-engineering and continuous improvement methods and concepts.
• Advanced knowledge of systems thinking concepts and principles.
• Advanced knowledge of group problem-solving methods and techniques, including problem analysis, nominal group and brainstorming techniques and consensus building.
• Advanced knowledge of process improvement methodologies and the application of human factors.
• Advanced skills in strategic thinking in order to understand where the organization is, where it wants to be and how to get there.
• Advanced consulting skills.
• Advanced analytical thinking skills.
• Advanced process improvement skills.
• Advanced business acumen.
• Advanced change leadership skills.
• Advanced organization and prioritization skills.
• Intermediate presentation and facilitation skills.
• Advanced conflict management skills.
• Advanced decision-making skills.
• Advanced enterprise/business awareness skills.
• Advanced interpersonal skills.
• Advanced facilitation skills.
• Advanced negotiation skills.
• Advanced problem-solving skills.
• Advanced risk management skills.
• Advanced written and oral communication skills.
• Expert organization and prioritization skills.
• Substantial Cognitive Level: Consistent use of logic or scientific thinking to define problems, collect information, establish facts and draw valid conclusions (for example, engineer, HR director, plant manager, etc.).
• Ability to adhere to set response times, deadlines and time-sensitive tasks
• Ability to follow accuracy standards
• Ability to follow through on decision-making tasks
• Ability to interact effectively and collaboratively within a team environment
• Ability to communicate and problem solve when under stress
• Ability to respond and adapt to frequent change
• Ability to accept and demonstrate self-awareness when provided constructive feedback
• Ability to discern feedback and acknowledge ownership of areas of improvement
• Ability to avoid future mistakes by applying reasonable skills to new but similar work situations or tasks
• Ability to successfully collaborate with peers, managers and others within the organization
• Demonstrates sound memory
• Ability to process new information to be applied consistently to work tasks
• Ability to adhere to pre-established schedule, including start/stop time and break/lunch schedule
• Ability to work long hours
• Ability to work a variable schedule
• Ability to report to work and perform work during periods of severe inclement weather
• Ability to consistently meet attendance standards for regular, reliable, predictable, full-time attendance
• Overnight inside/outside the service territory - Occasionally (one to two times a month or less)
• Use computer regularly for entire work shift
• Lifting/pushing/pulling: Up to 10 lbs.
• Carrying: Up to 10 lbs.
• Unstable surfaces requiring balance
• Stairs (over 10 steps)

Nice To Haves

• Strongly prefer PMP certification and/or Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, CBPL, CCIM and/or change management certification such as PROSCI.
• CPA, FPAC or other related finance and/or accounting certification.

Responsibilities

• Defines strategic continuous improvement objectives.
• Analyzes business needs and identifies potential process improvement initiatives aligned to strategic objectives.
• Scopes potential initiatives to forecast the anticipated benefits and resource needs of each.
• Develops departmental and/or cross-functional continuous improvement recommendations and collaborates with other departments to determine resource constraints and points of overlap.
• Maintains repository and roadmap of continuous improvement activities.
• Proactively provides insights for complex, widely scoped and/or cross-functional improvement initiatives.
• Identifies strategic objectives using financial reporting.
• Develops and implements timely and accurate status updates customized to stakeholder needs, including executives.
• May develop and implement reports, presentations, proposals and supporting materials.
• Assesses impacts of changes to process, technology, organization structure and policy in connection with very complex midsize to major projects and strategic initiatives and in consultation with officers, managers, supervisors and individual contributors.
• Evaluates effectiveness of change efforts.

Benefits

• performance based incentive bonus
• total rewards package that is designed to reward your contributions to the company, and, at the same time, support your well-being and professional development, both now and into the future.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees