Principal Strategic Efficiency Consultant

At PGE, our work involves dreaming about, planning for, and realizing a smarter, cleaner, more enduring Oregon neighborhood. Its core to our DNA and we haven’t stopped since we started in 1888. We energize lives, strengthen communities and drive advancements in energy that promote social, economic and environmental progress. We’re always on the lookout for people passionate about leading and being a part of teams that are advancing innovative clean energy solutions that are also affordable and accessible to all.

We are seeking a strategic, analytical finance professional to join our team in an enterprise-facing role focused on budgeting, financial planning, and driving business impact. In this position, you will partner with senior leaders to translate complex financial data into clear insights, identify opportunities for cost savings and efficiencies, and proactively guide decisions that support operational and financial performance across the organization.

The ideal candidate will bring a proven track record of performing complex financial analysis and delivering compelling, data-driven recommendations that improve efficiency, reduce costs, and create measurable value—preferably within a utility company or similarly regulated environment.

Key Responsibilities

Planning and Analysis Defines strategic continuous improvement objectives. Analyzes business needs and identifies potential process improvement initiatives aligned to strategic objectives. Scopes potential initiatives to forecast the anticipated benefits and resource needs of each. Develops departmental and/or cross-functional continuous improvement recommendations and collaborates with other departments to determine resource constraints and points of overlap. Maintains repository and roadmap of continuous improvement activities.

Process/Continuous Improvement Proactively provides insights for complex, widely scoped and/or cross-functional improvement initiatives. Identifies strategic objectives using financial reporting.

Stakeholder Engagement/Change Management Develops and implements timely and accurate status updates customized to stakeholder needs, including executives. May develop and implement reports, presentations, proposals and supporting materials.

Impact Assessment Assesses impacts of changes to process, technology, organization structure and policy in connection with very complex midsize to major projects and strategic initiatives and in consultation with officers, managers, supervisors and individual contributors. Evaluates effectiveness of change efforts.

Education/Experience/Certifications

Education Requires a bachelor’s degree in business, communications, organizational development, psychology or other related field or equivalent experience.

Experience Typically eight or more years in project management, change management, process improvement, strategic finance, cost transformation, consulting or a related field.

Certifications, Licenses and Training

• Strongly prefer PMP certification and/or Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, CBPL, CCIM and/or change management certification such as PROSCI.
• CPA, FPAC or other related finance and/or accounting certification.

Competencies (Knowledge, Skills, Abilities)

Functional Competencies

• Advanced knowledge of project management, change management and/or process improvement methodologies and standards.
• Advanced knowledge of and skill in using software applications used in department.
• Advanced knowledge of business process re-engineering and continuous improvement methods and concepts.
• Advanced knowledge of systems thinking concepts and principles.
• Advanced knowledge of group problem-solving methods and techniques, including problem analysis, nominal group and brainstorming techniques and consensus building.
• Advanced knowledge of process improvement methodologies and the application of human factors.
• Advanced skills in strategic thinking in order to understand where the organization is, where it wants to be and how to get there.
• Advanced consulting skills.

General Competencies

• Advanced analytical thinking skills.
• Advanced process improvement skills.
• Advanced business acumen.
• Advanced change leadership skills.
• Advanced organization and prioritization skills.
• Intermediate presentation and facilitation skills.
• Advanced conflict management skills.
• Advanced decision-making skills.
• Advanced enterprise/business awareness skills.
• Advanced interpersonal skills.
• Advanced facilitation skills.
• Advanced negotiation skills.
• Advanced problem-solving skills.
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