Senior Transmission Settlement Analyst

Puget Sound Energy is looking to grow our community with top talented individuals like you!  With our rapidly growing, award winning energy efficiency programs, our pathway to an exciting and innovative future is now.

 

PSE's Transmission team is looking for qualified candidates to fill an open Senior Transmission Settlement Analyst position!

Specific details regarding the work arrangements for this position will be discussed in further detail during the interview process.

Job Description

Puget Sound Energy's Transmission Services and Contracts department is looking for a new member to join our Transmission Services and Settlements team! This is an excellent opportunity to play and integral role in supporting PSE's solutions for our customer future clean energy needs.

 

In this role, you will support the development and maintenance of business practices, procedures, and tools for the implementation of PSE's Open Access Same-time Information System (OASIS). You will process PSEI grid components in PSE's OASIS and NAESB's Electric Industry Registry, while ensuring compliance with related government standards, PSE business practices, and internal controls.

 

Your responsibilities will include maintaining and analyzing back-office settlement data resulting from PSE's transmission-related services and its participation in the California ISO Western Energy Imbalance Market. You will be performing financial, statistical, and operational studies to support initiatives and ongoing reporting needs of PSE's Clean Energy Strategy. Additionally, you will research and analyze operational data and accounting issues, recommending, and impelmenting appropriate solutions. 

 

In this position, you will uphold safety compliance standards inherent in PSE's operating and field procedures related to work responsibilities, while promoting and supporting a culture of total safety.

 

A successful candidate will demonstrate commitment to conducting business honestly and ethically, consistent with our core values and Code of Conduct, while ensuring all duties are performed in accordance with regulatory compliance obligations. 

Job Responsibilities

• Provide transmission services, including managing PSE's grid components in OASIS and supporting transmission accounting functions.
• OASIS management
  • Manage PSEI grid componenets in PSE's OASIS and other transmission-related software, including NAESB's Electric Industry Registry.
  • Manage PSE's OASIS to include TTC updates, outage information, public posting notices, and various documentation.
  • Support in the development and maintenance of business practices, procedures, and tools for PSE's OASIS.
  • Support administration of OATI production and development applications, user account maintenance, and appropriate application settings.
  • Manage customer transmission service requests, working with supervisors, transmission services and contracts staff as needed.
  • Troubleshoot customer/scheduler tagging, submittals, business practices, and PSE's OATT (Open Access Transmission Tariff).
  • Assure compliance with FERC, NERC, NAESB (North American Energy Standards Board) and WECC Standards.
  • Support transmission rate making strategy and make recommendations for optimizing the value of transmission assets.
  • Support PSE policy, interconnection, engineering, and compliance teams - providing transmission guidance (and vice versa) as needed.
  • Stay current on industry trends and development through organizations such as NAESB, WECC, NERC, and FERC.
• Transmission Accounting:
  • Prepare Point to Point and NITS transmission monthly billing, related reporting, and accruals.
  • Assist with managing blanket service agreements for new and extisting transmission customers.
  • Prepare internal and external reports including FERM Form 1, WECC Budget Assessment, Unscheduled Flow Mitigation.
  • Create departmental study work orders; track deposits, costs, and refunds.
  • Submit quarterly Transmission Contract EQR data.
  • Support FERC rate cases, formula rate updates, and PCORC transmission revenue estimates.
  • Reconcile Southern Intertie Capacity Owner BPA work orders, forecasts, and payments.
  • Support Settlement staff members as needed.
• Other duties:
  • Represent PSE as industry workgroups.
  • Perform software upgrades/improvements testing and issue resolution.
  • Respond to transmission and interconenction customer inquiries.
  • Perform other duties and tasks as assigned. 

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business or an equivalent combination of education and experience
• Five plus years’ exper