Senior Rate Analyst
SMUD
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Sacramento • California • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $114,712 - $151,986 per year
Job Level
Senior
About the role
- Develops and maintains a revenue forecasting model that accounts for normalized weather patterns and incorporates SMUD's energy forecast.
- Modifies, expands and maintains a rate design model that allocates functional revenue requirements to customer classes based on historical costs and marginal cost principals.
- Provides leadership and trains others in the use of the rate comparison model, rate design model, and cost of service studies.
- Validates accuracy of models and develops batch billing programs for rate design.
- Designs and estimates impact of innovative rates based on recommendations from the Board, Rate Advisory Committee, and executive management.
- Serves as subject matter expert in maintaining accessible load research and billing determinant data in support of pricing, load research, regulatory filings, demand side management programs, energy efficiency programs, and market research.
- Develops interactive products to ease access to critical customer information.
- Prepares studies, written technical reports and oral presentations on pricing issues.
Requirements
- A Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university with major course work in engineering, marketing, business administration, social science, finance, economics, statistics, or a related field.
- 5 or more (5+) years of progressively responsible relevant work experience in pricing, cost of service analysis, revenue requirements, or revenue forecasting
- Intermediate retail rate design theory and related utility standards
- Electric utility operations
- Intermediate methods and techniques of load/market research including average and marginal costing
- Intermediate techniques and practices for cost benefit analyses
- SMUD policies, procedures, and other special agreements including rate-making policy
- Pertinent federal, state and local laws, codes and regulations governing related rate design and analyses
- Principles and practices of various analytical approaches
- Methods and techniques of report preparation and writing
- Techniques and strategies for public speaking
- Techniques related to customer relations
- Office procedures, methods, and equipment including computers and applicable software applications such as word processing, spreadsheets, and databases
- English usage, spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Retirement plans
- Paid time off
- Flexible work arrangements
- Professional development opportunities
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
revenue forecastingrate designcost of service analysisload researchmarginal costingcost benefit analysisdata analysisstatistical analysispricing strategybatch billing programs
Soft skills
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