Senior Wildfire Portfolio Analyst - Oahu

Hawaiian Electric Company•Honolulu, HI

64d

About The Position

We recognize our competitive advantage -- our people. We believe in our people, who share our vision of meeting the needs of our employees, customers, and communities and who carry out the continued success of the company. Our employees are committed to the company's foundational values: integrity, excellence, teamwork, environmental stewardship, and community commitment. In turn, we invest in our employees, providing opportunities for challenge and advancement and offering a competitive compensation package. The P WR WILDFIRE STRATEGY Department of the P WILDFIRE STRATEGY Division at Hawaiian Electric Company has 1 Management vacancy available. (Role: Professional) JOB FUNCTION: Provides effective reporting and analysis for decision-making forums and external engagement activities. Collaborates across the company to collect data and critical information needed to ensure that completed wildfire work meets all stated requirements through the consistent and effective monitoring of wildfire progress and performance metrics including quality assurance and controls. Maintains internal control records, supports audit readiness activities, manages document workflows, and supports continuous improvement of WS processes. Ensures organizational traceability, status visibility, and reporting accuracy across all WS functions.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in business, Public Administration, Policy, or related field.
Understanding of data repositories and reporting tools related to wildfire and grid portfolio progress and system performance.
Familiarity with status and reporting tools that support wildfire mitigation, portfolio performance and quality control.
Understanding of basic objectives to reduce wildfire risk across Hawaiian Electric's territories, including the regulatory, technical, operational, and public-facing dimensions.
General understanding of evolving wildfire regulatory requirements, WSS implementation milestones, and cross-functional program delivery to support integrated audit readiness and ongoing compliance.
Familiarity with internal processes and controls related to work completion including maintaining accurate documentation.
Working knowledge of Excel, MS Word, SharePoint, and documentation templates.
Maintains detailed, well-organized records and audit logs.
Ability to synthesize large and complex datasets and apply to status and reporting tools.
Ability to remain flexible in a demanding work environment and adapt to rapidly changing priorities.
Excellent written, oral and presentation skills in order to effectively communicate with all levels of the organization, which often includes dealing with sensitive, difficult or confrontational issues.
Analytical, conceptual and administrative skills to assess the demands of the job, recommend proper actions, and handle multiple systems, projects and programs with minimal supervision.
Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work with a variety of individuals at all levels within and outside the company using tact, courtesy and discretion.
Multiple (5+) years of experience in analyst activities related to project or portfolio management, performance or quality documentation, audit preparation, or records management desired.
Experience supporting audits or working in regulated utilities preferred.

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting audits or working in regulated utilities preferred.

Responsibilities

WSS Portfolio and Performance Monitoring
Provides data-driven analysis in support of the overall WSS development and updates, applying new requirements that impact the wildfire mitigation strategies and portfolio.
Coordinates with cross functional teams to monitor progress and performance metrics aligned with WSS project and program scope and quality.
Identifies and develops high-level processes for collecting and analyzing timely, accurate updates on progress, performance, quality and compliance updates with initiative owners.
Validates critical milestones and metrics to identify significant adjustments to scope and cost and enables development of recovery plans.
Prepares regular updates and supports escalations of appropriate execution risks and performance and quality issues to Wildfire Portfolio & Performance team members for resolution.
Quality and Compliance Management
Prepares reports for quality and compliance metrics that provide insights into any required changes to wildfire mitigation scope or quality control to meet WSS goals and objectives.
Provides ongoing status updates required to ensure work that is scoped is completed, as designed, and in adherence to plans and standards and aligned with regulatory expectations.
Develops data and reporting tools that support the development of Hawaiian Electric's quality assurance and control framework.
Maintains internal review finding logs, resolutions, and continuous improvement actions.
WSS Continuous Improvement
Reviews WSS implementation processes to assess effectiveness and identifies improvement gaps.
Continually monitors data integrity issues and recommends enhancements to improve data quality.
Administers SharePoint, wildfire KPI dashboards, and audit tracking databases to ensure accurate and complete reporting and provides user training as needed.
Supports maintenance of a centralized knowledge management system for WS portfolio, performance and quality activities (plans, reports, models, audits).
Manages document control, versioning, and accessibility.
Participates in internal knowledge sharing sessions and briefings.
WSS Portfolio and Performance Oversight Facilitation
Provides analysis, prepares materials, and supports wildfire mitigation portfolio oversight forums (internal governance committees).
Works to build status reporting tools that support timely communication of portfolio progress, performance, quality and compliance outcomes to stakeholders.
Provides data and data insights needed to support responsive and aligned decision-making across all wildfire mitigation initiatives.
Integrates portfolio oversight, performance and quality lessons learned into ongoing updates of WS processes and policies.
Regulatory Compliance
Collaborates with Legal and Regulatory Affairs departments and other WS teams to support monitoring and reporting on compliance with regulatory requirements.
Manages wildfire-related regulatory reporting requirements and partners with Regulatory Affairs to track commitments and deadlines, ensure ongoing compliance and develop frameworks that support potential external reviews.
Coordinates compliance reporting readiness, walkthroughs, and control reviews to ensure regulatory alignment.
Assists with audit-related communications and regulatory engagement.
Stakeholder Communication and Engagement
Communicates with internal and external stakeholders regularly regarding progress of wildfire mitigation programs and strategic initiatives as it relates to WSS portfolio execution, performance and quality expectations.
Develops stakeholder-specific reports, dashboards and updates on progress of wildfire mitigation programs and strategic initiative implementation and quality.
Supports WSS-related stakeholder workshops and community forums and supports planning and preparing for wildfire related workshops and forums.
Supports Hawaiian Electric's industry wildfire mitigation program benchmarking and industry engagement activities.
Provides portfolio oversight, compliance, and quality subject matter expertise to support enterprise wildfire related training and development programs.
Participates in Company emergency response activities as assigned, including any activities required to prepare for such emergency response.