Business Analyst, Senior/Consultant | Resource Management

The APS Promise is our commitment to our customers, community and each other. It explains why we’re here (our purpose), what we’re here to do (vision and mission) and the principles and behaviors that will empower us to achieve our strategic goals. It represents the opportunity to build on our cultural strengths and develop new behaviors that will enable our future success.

Summary

Business Analyst, Senior/Consultant | Resource Management- Participates in a variety of data analysis and modeling functions including identification of resource needs and selections, evaluating wholesale markets, planning and assisting with system operations, assessing other business or operational plans or items utilizing advanced qualitative and quantitative techniques, and regulatory support.
What your day would be like:

You are responsible for:

• Develop resource plan alternatives based on market trends and conditions, wholesale market changes or other analytical findings critical to the business.
• Conducts comprehensive analysis or modeling functions under limited supervision. 
• Responsibilities may include complex analysis of wholesale markets, system operations, or other business or operational plans or items utilizing advanced qualitative and quantitative techniques.
• Evaluates resource plans, market changes or other complex analysis that requires input from other Departments and utilizes industry knowledge
   

Minimum Requirements

Business Analyst, Senior | Resource Management

• BS/BA Degree in business, engineering, economics, finance, information technology, mathematics, physics or similar quantitative field
• PLUS six (6) years related business experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience with demonstrated comparable knowledge and abilities.

Business Consultant | Resource Management

• BS/BA Degree in business, engineering, economics, finance, information technology, mathematics, physics or similar quantitative field
• PLUS eight (8) years related business experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience with demonstrated comparable knowledge and abilities. 

Additional Requirements: 

• Knowledge of principles of economic unit commitment/dispatch, wholesale market operations and the functional and economic characteristics of Company power resources and the interconnected system is desired.
• Knowledge of natural gas markets including contracts, and utilization within a power plant.
• Must have strong communication, presentation and writing skills.
• May be responsible for leading teams in evaluations and implementation of solutions.
• This position may rotate through various areas of Resource Management and, depending upon the area, could involve work shifts that are different from normal business hours.
• Certain departments may require ability to work rotating on call shifts, as business needs require.

Major Accountabilities

1) Conducts complex analysis of energy markets, system operations, resource evaluations, or other business or operational plans or items utilizing advanced qualitative and quantitative techniques.

2) Develops and supports presenting information to leaders and executives highlighting or recommending resource plan alternatives based on market trends and conditions, wholesale market changes or other analytical findings critical to the business.

3) Evaluates resource plans, market changes or other complex analysis that requires input from Legal department, Regulatory, Resource Management, Fossil Generation, and/or Middle and Back Office, etc.

4) May perform analysis to optimize the timing of generation outages, determine economic power transactions, and assist traders in developing strategies for serving APS load obligations in the most cost effective manner that also supports system reliability.

5) Performs moderately complex quantitative analysis using production cost models to develop a comprehensive resource plan, support trading and the Fuels Department, implement the hedge plan or produce the corporate Fuel Budget.

6) Evaluates historic and forecasted market data, including pricing and trends to develop forecasts and analytical and mathematical models and analysis to support business unit performance plans and efforts

7) Develops detailed and complex reports, such as the Integrated Resource Plan or topic specific white papers, to support business unit initiatives and decision making involving capital expenditures, major commercial commitments and changes in operating strategy.

8) Performs economic and financial studies, including cash flow analysis, rates of return computations and revenue requirements analysis as required.