Senior Business & Planning Analyst - PMO

 DTE is one of the nation’s largest diversified energy companies. Our electric and gas companies have fueled our customer’s homes and Michigan’s progress for more than a century. And as Michigan’s largest source of renewable energy, we’re creating a cleaner, healthier environment to power our future. We’re also serving communities beyond Michigan, where our affiliated businesses offer renewable energy, emission control technologies, and energy services to industries in 19 states.
 

But we’re more than a leading energy company... and working at DTE is more than just a job. At DTE, we take great care of each other and our customers, and we use our energy to be a force for growth and prosperity in our communities.  When you join us, you’ll be part of a team that welcomes, recognizes, and celebrates differences and values everyone’s health, safety, and wellbeing.  Are you ready to make that kind of difference? Bring your energy to DTE. Together, we can achieve great things.
 

Testing Required: Not Applicable

Apply by: No later than January 26, 2024
Location: Detroit - Downtwon Headquarter - Walker Cisler Building

Bidding Restriction: 1 Year

 

Hybrid Role: Must be able to come on-site periodically and reside a commutable distance from the assigned work location.

Emergency Response: Yes – Must be available to perform a primary assignment in support of DTE’s emergency response to storms or other events that impact service to our customers.

Job Summary

Performs complex analysis, research, development, testing and implementation and support of systems and procedural solutions to support business opportunities, initiatives and strategic goals in the most effective and efficient manner. This position is a blend of technical expertise, in depth understanding of customer service/business unit needs and business knowledge with strong interpersonal and creative thinking skills. This is an individual contributor role with no direct reports.

Key Accountabilities

• Informally leads a cross-functional team in identifying and resolving process gaps that affect the organizations performance.
• Provides support to other analyst on data extraction and analysis issues.
• Researches, prepares analyses and simulations of business unit operations and operational effectiveness, including benchmarking the business units functions against competitors, to support recommendations for BU improvement(s), goal and target setting.
• Tracks, maintains and provides up-to-date information on the business unit's metrics and scorecard.
• Delivers effective presentations of findings and recommendations to multiple levels of stakeholders, creating visual displays of quantitative information.
• Analyzes the impact of various BU initiatives in the context of regulatory requirements and considerations.
• Coordinates input from various business units to facilitate the integration of group-level plans with larger (Corporate-wide) plans and/or activities; may participate in periodic reviews of achievements and performance versus plans.
• Provides budget development, tracking and related analytical support for the BU's leadership, or for operating groups within a given BU.
• Analyzes capital and O&M projects; develops recommendations to maximize the business units output for long-range planning purposes.
• Collaborates with cross-functional stakeholders to understand their business needs and formulate complete end-to-end analysis.
• Coordinates and recommends the design of templates and planning tools used in the BU planning process.
• Performs complex analyses to identify and resolve potential sources of loss or threats to business unit outcomes, and minimize their effects.
• Updates or develops data models and databases; engages in activities intended to maintain data integrity.

Minimum Education & Experience Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in business administration, economics, engineering, or a related discipline, and 5+ years of planning, continuous improvement / quality assurance, project management, data analysis, or related experience

Other Qualifications

Preferred

• Postgraduate degree in business, economics or engineering
• Experience working with SQL.
• Experience working with Power Platform (PowerBI, Poer Automate and/or Power Applications)

 

Other Requirements

• Proficiency in MS Office applications (Excel, Access, PowerPoint and Word) Proficient verbal, written and presentation skills; communicates clearly, with credibility and confidence
• Advanced analytical and project management skills
• Analytical and problem solving skills consistent with the ability to identify key issues from a broad range of alternatives, and recommend