Powerplan Functional Analyst

Powerplan Functional Analyst
Oakland, CA
Full time position
Hybrid

This new teammate needs to be able come to Oakland headquarters 3 days a week, since all project team is here in person Tuesday to Thursday.

H1B Sponsership is available

Relocation is available

A reasonable salary range is:
Bay Area Minimum: $140,000.00
MIDPOINT: $189,000.00
Bay Area Maximum: $238,000.00

Responsibilities

We need additional details regarding the process, design, and development, challenges, breakthrough experience in specific modules such as Asset Accounting, Tax Repairs, Tax Provision, Property Tax, Income Tax/PowerTax, Lease, Order 898, and Tax Fixed Assets, among others.

Business Support and Consulting:
Define standard processes in PowerPlan and drive adaptation in Finance and Tax areas.
Analyze end-to-end complex business processes across all modules within PowerPlan.
Understand in detail the current and future business environment of the business organizations; effectively anticipate, identify, and fully meet the business needs using an integrated approach leveraging existing and new PowerPlan capabilities.
Identify, propose, and influence IT solutions to complex cross- organizational business problems utilizing ERP capabilities; negotiate requirements and deliverables across multiple business and IT customers and organizations.
Evaluate current customizations in the system to help business and IT partners understand risks and costs of customizing vs. using standard functionalities, advocating for using standard functionalities to lower future implementation cost and total cost of ownership (TCO) for solutions.

Functional Analysis:
Automate/optimize PowerPlan system
Map business requirements to SAP S4 system capabilities and configure to meet requirements
Review design and technical specification documents for alignment with business solution
Perform PowerPlan configuration and do quality review and testing activities

Qualifications

Minimum:

10 years of job-related experience in Information Technology
8 years of experience as a Functional Analyst in PowerPlan system

Desired:

Familiarity with CR, PM, Asset/ARO, Depr modules and their data flow
Project creation, estimating, approval
Collecting and classifying charges (derivations and true-up)
In-service and completion of work orders
PowerTax and Tax Repairs
Creating checks and balances to prevent data issues in automated processes
Lease Accounting Module (if PGE uses PowerPlan)
Month-End Close Processes
PowerPlan Integration Tools
SDLC and Integration Best Practices/ETL processes

Additional Desired:

SAP
- Familiarity with SAP tables and structure
- SAP GUI experience and documenting integrations
- Hana Experience - SAP settlement process and integration impacts with PowerPlan/capital projects

S4HANA ERP Implementation and Upgrades
- Large ERP projects, integrations with forecasting and FP&A systems
- Dashboarding tools for metric tracking

Functional Skills
- Accounting Concepts in Asset Management/Depreciation
- Mass property accounting
- Group depreciation - Various asset retirement methods
- ARO accounting
- Book vs. tax depreciation

GAAP vs. FERC Accounting Concepts
- FERC system of accounts and new accounts for renewables and Software/hardware/communications equipment effective 01/2025
- AFUDC/CPI/capitalized interest
- Managing differing capitalization/recovery schedules for GAAP vs. FERC - Rate cases, depreciation studies, and supporting documentation for assets in GRC - Clauses and tracking recovery costs separately from normal rate base assets
- Mergers and Acquisitions/Divestitures

Non-Technical Skills
- Interacting with both technical and non-technical team members to resolve issues
- Communicating success/failure stories to management teams