Sr. Director of Pricing

Tampa Electric Company•Tampa, FL

3d•Onsite

About The Position

The Sr Dir Pricing will direct company activities in the pricing of electric services, regulatory financial analysis, and general regulatory issues management. Directs the rate design and pricing for a wide variety of electric utility matters including electric bulk power supply contracts and tariffs, electric transmission tariff (OATT), electric retail tariffs, pole attachments and the development of special contracts for retail electric service. Directs the preparation of electric tariffs, cost of service studies, electric jurisdictional separation studies and other cost support analyses. Directs the development of customer demand and energy forecasts and revenue projections to meet strategic business needs regarding load analysis, resource planning, program development and rate setting. Evaluates customer energy load use patterns and billing determinants. Participates in the formulation of regulatory policies, coordination of FERC and FPSC regulatory board matters, and the development and maintenance of allocation factors used in business unit analysis and reporting. Responsible for technical and compliance reviews of company regulatory and financial filings. Provides expert testimony on pricing, jurisdictional separation, cost of service analyses, and load research and forecasting and related policy for electric retail and wholesale business of Tampa Electric.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Legal, Finance, Economics, Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, Business, or related field.
10 years of regulatory experience and/ or general experience in industry structure , utility finance and accounting practices, ratemaking practices, legal and regulatory processes.
5 years supervisory experience.
Must be proficient in all business applications/software relevant to the role.

Nice To Haves

Graduate degree in the above fields.
Experience in performing and/or leading cost-of-service studies, statistical forecasting processes, and designing rates.

Responsibilities

Provide regulatory strategy and pricing analysis regarding business issues that are governed by the FPSC and FERC.
Provide updates, expert presentation and advice to company officers, board of directors, company management and externally on current regulatory issues.
Provide leadership in developing strategies, reviewing analyses, and providing regulatory perspectives on potential changes.
Consult and collaborate with key stakeholders within and outside the company to evaluate developing energy policy and provide strategic direction that maintains consistency with established principles of cost of service and rate design and sound statistical forecasting methods while advancing customer and corporate objectives.
Collaborate in the development of long-term generation expansion plan strategy.
Direct the overall process of developing the corporate annual electric customer demand and energy forecasts, and the correctly defined forecasting models, utilizing consistent weather, economic, demographic and energy-use assumptions.
Oversee the evaluation of demand side management programs, distributed energy resources on energy consumption and peak demands, and creation of hourly load profiles.
Oversee the electric revenue forecast process and development of billing determinants for rate design.
Provide expert testimony for the same before FERC and FPSC.
Direct the preparation, development, and filing of ongoing retail, wholesale and transmission electric tariffs and their underlying rate designs, approaches, or forecasts, electric contract rates, special contracts, new customer rates and programs.
Provide all usage and pricing analyses needed to complete the aforementioned activities and provide expert testimony for the same before FERC and FPSC.
Direct the preparation of cost-of-service and jurisdictional separation studies for FPSC and FERC proceedings and provide expert testimony for the same before those bodies.
Direct the preparation of such studies in support of annual regulatory surveillance reporting.
Direct the corporate load research program as required by Public Service Commission’s Cost of Service Load Research rule 25-6.0437 and other corporate needs and objectives.
Oversee the load research team in the development of load survey sample size calculations, sample selection/installation and data collection, reporting as required by the FPSC Load Research Rule, cost of service studies, other analyses that support corporate objectives, and planning and implementation of related projects.
Provide expert testimony for the same before FERC and FPSC.