Xcel Energy

Financial Planning and Analysis

• Perform and coordinate the development, tracking, reporting and analysis of financial information, including financial reporting, budget creation, and financial analysis
• Provide proactive, clear and actionable recommendations and alternatives to management
• Document key processes and internal control points for reporting to management
• Direct activities of other analysts as appropriate
• Perform ongoing tracking, analysis and revisions as required for supported areas of O&M and capital costs
• Work with Business Area leaders to provide projections of the impact of deviations on the financial outlook for the remainder of the year
• Prepare internal and external reports, and identify and resolve moderate to complex data issues
• Analyze financial data to identify adverse trends and recommend solutions to mitigate financial impact
• Effectively communicate results through concise oral and written communications
• Provide financial analysis and support to management for the annual budget process, as well as modeling, analysis and financial support for current year and five year forecasting
• Document key processes of supported areas to ensure consistency and compliance with legal and regulatory requirements
• Provide proactive process improvement recommendations and assist in implementing the accepted solutions
• Prepare rate case information and analysis as required to support submission
• Assist in performing regulatory support for requests or associated schedules
• Performs and assists with special projects as assigned

Senior Financial Analyst

Consultant

• Drive toward integration and alignment of people, processes, data, tools, and systems that impact Integrated System Planning.
• Responsible for business process improvements and provides team and project leadership that facilitates organizational alignment, continuous process improvement, and change management.
• Analyze business processes to identify and document issues where a standard doesn’t exist or where processes are inconsistent, are unnecessarily complex, aren’t being followed, add cost without value, impede the ability to fulfill obligations in a timely manner, or contribute to customer dissatisfaction.
• Provide specific process improvement recommendations to increase productivity, profitability, and customer satisfaction.
• Collaborate across many stakeholders and business process owners to ensure alignment of organizational structure, roles, responsibilities, processes, standards, performance measures, and training plans.
• Lead cross functional teams to drive process improvements to successful integration by: identifying and articulating key business issues and defining project scope, including clarifying project objectives in alignment with corporate objectives and overall strategic direction; understanding market and internal views; designing process, organization and technology solutions; performing gap analysis and preparing business cases for change (benefits and costs); defining change management requirements, including communications and process, system and training requirements facilitating plan development and implementation; defining key performance indicators and implementing performance monitoring; and transitioning to continuous process improvement monitoring and measurement.
• Gain organizational buy-in and effectively communicate critical elements of process improvement solutions to a variety of stakeholders.

Process and Performance Consultant

Manager

• Lead the deployment and maintenance of the Management Requirements and 4 Plays: Visualization, Performance Reviews, Problem-Solving, and Standardization.
• Drive the use of rally rooms and operating boards to standardize work.
• Utilize PDCA/A3 to drive continuous improvement based on business area goals cascaded down through the organization.
• Responsible for providing process expertise and analysis on issues through coaching and facilitation of teams.
• Act as a key liaison between the business area leadership, shared services, and One Way office.
• Communicate and report out on the status of business area improvements.
• Establish effective, collaborative working relationships with front line through senior leadership to maximize project efficiency, responsiveness, and resource allocation.
• Lead business area continuous improvement projects utilizing continuous improvement methodology to deliver substantial improvements in identified areas.
• Support process level metrics and influence accountability across process streams by supporting use of tools such as rally rooms, continuous improvement projects.
• Provide financial management of projects including budgeting, forecasting, actuals tracking, and savings implications.

Engagement Manager

Engineer

• Leads and performs modeling and analysis activities for steady state and stability simulations
• Develops scopes for studies to guide long-range transmission system plans and coordinates with other Integrated System Planning departments to ensure assumptions align across subdisciplines
• Effectively communicates the results of studies and department endeavors to a wide range of audiences through written and verbal means
• Improves Integrated System Planning procedures and techniques through largely self-directed work.
• Resolves difficult technical and business problems
• Implements, without substantial direction, NERC and FERC compliance activities as an SME.
• Assigns tasks to lower-level engineers, interns and technicians.
• Mentors and provides training materials for less experienced engineers to ensure group development.

Senior Transmission Planning Engineer

Human Resources

• Develops and executes organization and business area-level HR strategies that align structure, culture and talent to business goals
• Advises business area leadership on the full range of HR and related business functions
• Responsible for employee-related activities for the leadership team of the business area they support
• Maintain knowledge of the broader population through strong connections with related HR staff
• Drive HR and business area strategy alignment in collaboration with HR and Business Leaders
• Build relationships and work with leaders to clarify strategy, manage talent, create value added organizational capabilities and deliver supporting HR strategies
• Serve as functional HR experts, client advocates, talent advisors, and strategic partners to their business areas
• In collaboration with HR Centers of Excellence improves and implements: Organization design & workforce planning, Performance management strategy, Total Rewards strategy
• Works with HR Generalists to infuse employee insights into organizational strategies
• Devise leadership development and coaching opportunities for business area leadership team needs
• Ensures the identification, assessment & development of key talent within business area
• Develop, implement and assess succession pipeline strategy planning
• Acts as HR Generalist for the business area leader's direct reports

Human Resource Business Partner – Gas, Integrated System Planning

Project Manager

• Provide end-to-end project management, leadership and coordination for large complex projects or as a part of a transformational project work stream with responsibility for project scope, schedule, cost and risk management.
• Ensure alignment of financial and operational goals between projects and the business unit.
• Provide work team direction to achieve approved project scope, develop strategic sequencing and detailed milestone schedules, project-level cost tracking and reconciliation.
• Ensure availability or seek out adequate resources for projects.
• Function as project controller. Manage project financials including budgeting, forecasting, and actuals tracking.
• Facilitate RFP and contract management processes. Review actuals versus planned budget throughout project life cycle to identify variances and recommend corrective action.
• Ensure timely project closure, payment and reconciliation.
• Lead requirements gathering and planning process for approved projects while engaging all key stakeholders.
• Develop solution design that defines the entire project scope, and secure all required internal/external approvals.
• Ensure coordination with other initiatives, assuring dependencies are identified and addressed.
• Define deliverables and required delivery dates; develop viable work plans/WBS, milestone schedules, and project cost/benefit estimates.
• Independently manage detailed project plans to approved scope and provide cross-functional tracking as needed.
• Identify plan gaps and develop closure plans. Ensure the successful completion of assigned project deliverables & milestones in a dynamic/complex environment.
• Manage resources, both internal and external. Manage assigned contracts and associated payments and performance requirements.
• Develop and adapt a comprehensive resource plan for a matrixed team of diverse talent to maximize skills and minimize cost.
• Provide mentoring and guidance to less experienced project team members.
• Manage scope change request process for project. Identify risks and issues throughout the project lifecycle and create mitigation strategies and contingency plans.
• Communicate project status to all levels of the organization. Establish effective, collaborative working relationships to maximize project efficiency, responsiveness and resource allocation.

Project Manager II

Mechanical Engineer

• Provide initial troubleshooting and problem solving to investigate, document and resolve operational issues and implement solutions.
• Provide engineering technical support for equipment repairs and coordinate offsite engineering services when required for complex problems.
• Quantify equipment risk and develop corrective action plans to mitigate risk.
• Analyze equipment failure rates, failure causes and risk trends to prioritize maintenance and future investments.
• Ensure implementation and optimization of equipment maintenance strategies for turbines, generators and auxiliary systems.
• Support condition monitoring technologies (vibration analysis, thermography, oil analysis) for equipment.
• Identify project improvement opportunities to reduce failures and improve reliability.
• Provide engineering support for capital projects, upgrades, and refurbishment of powerhouse equipment.
• Support Overhauls & Outages through planning, execution and close out stages.
• Provide support for plant crews, including reviewing technical material specifications and ordering materials for plant projects.
• Create capital and operational and maintenance (O&M) projects to ensure long term reliable operation of various plant systems.
• Support Break-in plant work screening and prioritization by participating in daily plant plan of the day tailgates and weekly planning meetings.

Power Plant Mechanical Engineer – Entry, Staff, Senior

Designer

• Efficiently and safely produce Metering & Relaying diagrams, Communication One-Lines, Panel Elevations, Schematic Diagrams, and Wiring Diagrams per engineering Scope of Work documents
• Provides support and direction for well executed team efforts on projects including planning, scheduling, cost and budget control, and communication to the project team members, and management
• Perform inspection work and maintain liaison with construction and/or contractor field construction personnel to ensure adequacy of design, and compliance with plans and specifications
• Effectively plan design activities, in accordance with the project teams plans, to assure projects are completed as scheduled
• Update the schedules to reflect an accurate status of the project's progress
• Coordinates project development on small, routine projects, including equipment problems, and design modifications required by project changes
• Develops new design standards and modifies existing design standards to provide safe, reliable, and cost-effective designs
• Checks and reviews designs, design guides and standards by others (including consultants)

Electric Transmission Designer I – II

Payroll

• Ensure accurate and timely payroll processing and financial reporting in a multi-state and multi-company environment
• Provide advanced expertise to research and resolve complex payroll and timekeeping issues
• Direct payroll/timekeeping system needs including planning, reporting, auditing and testing
• Ensure compliance with multiple bargaining agreements, Federal/State/local tax regulations and company policies
• Design payroll processes and internal controls and implement appropriate process improvements
• Key resource for tax laws and policies, interpreting organizational impact, and implementing required process and systems changes for compliance and efficiency
• Research and analyze complex payroll issues including reconciliations, overpayments, taxation and adjustments
• Provide technical payroll processing, calculation, and consulting expertise on business and technology issues that impact payroll
• Communicate research and analysis results to senior executives, timekeepers, employees, and external agencies and vendors
• Research and communicate payroll trends, anticipate organizational impact and identify improvement options
• Ensure accurate and timely payroll processing (regular, off-cycle and annual) in accordance with all federal, state, and local regulations and tax standards, bargaining agreements and company policies
• Calculate and process complex and high-visibility transactions including multi-state taxation adjustments, incentive taxation, retroactive adjustments, year-end tax reconciliations and unique bargaining payouts
• Educate and mentor team members and partners on payroll processes, timekeeping systems and compliance issues
• Design and document steps for managing system access, delivering reporting, implementing processes and procedures, researching issues, reconciling data with other systems, and leading special projects
• Partner with HRIS, Supply Chain, Finance and other internal and external groups to ensure all inbound, outbound, and core HRM systems are configured to be current and compliant with all federal, state, and local regulations as they perform all necessary timekeeping, pay, and taxation calculations and transactions
• Integrate process improvements and system enhancements

Principal Payroll Analyst

Product Designer

• Serve as a strategic advisor for business functional teams by providing deep subject matter expertise, operational insights and high impact process recommendations across business functions.
• Represent functional operations in major program activities, shaping business process design, policy and procedure development, business benefits, KPIs and future state functional architectures.
• Identify, assess and communicate broad operational impacts of proposed changes, proactively addressing enterprise level risks and misalignments.
• Guide business functional testing strategy, inform training and change design and ensure user adoption approaches enable sustainable transformation.
• Partner with cross functional leaders to ensure end-to-end business process integration and customer centric operational continuity.
• Champion enterprise continuous improvement by elevating systemic pain points and shaping long-term design decisions.
• Lead development of enterprise performance metrics, reporting frameworks and post implementation value realization measures.
• Drives digital experience by defining and validating customer facing interfaces within CIS and related systems.
• Map customer journeys across billing, payment and outage self-service.
• Provide UX input into portal/mobile design, ensuring accessibility and usability.
• Partner with Technology teams to validate front-end integration within CIS.

Principal Business Functional Consultant, Customer and User Experience

• Supports business readiness and transformation activities within a defined business domain.
• Conducts analysis, documents requirements, supports process design and ensures operational considerations are incorporated into project deliverables.
• Identifies functional gaps, evaluates impacts and partners with peers to ensure future-state processes are feasible, customer centric, and aligned to business needs.
• Partners with cross-functional teams, including program/project teams, Business Area leaders, and frontline supervisors.
• Drives digital experience by defining and validating customer facing interfaces within CIS and related systems.
• Maps customer journeys across billing, payment and outage self-service.
• Provides UX input into portal/mobile design, ensuring accessibility and usability.
• Supports business functional teams by providing subject matter knowledge for a defined set of business processes.
• Participates in program activities (e.g., business process design, policy/procedure development, operational planning) by documenting requirements, business impacts, KPIs and functional designs.
• Identifies and communicates operational impacts of proposed changes, escalating risks or misalignments to senior team members.
• Supports business functional testing, training development, and user adoption efforts by ensuring content reflects business realities.
• Champions continuous improvement by surfacing operational pain points, feedback and employee insights to inform delivery efforts.
• Provides input into performance metrics, reporting needs and post-implementation success criteria when applicable.

Customer Experience Consultant, Transformation

• Serve as a strategic advisor for business functional teams by providing deep subject matter expertise, operational insights and high impact process recommendations across business functions.
• Represent functional operations in major program activities, shaping business process design, policy and procedure development, business benefits, KPIs and future state functional architectures.
• Identify, assess and communicate broad operational impacts of proposed changes, proactively addressing enterprise level risks and misalignments.
• Guide business functional testing strategy, inform training and change design and ensure user adoption approaches enable sustainable transformation.
• Partner with cross functional leaders to ensure end-to-end business process integration and customer centric operational continuity.
• Champion enterprise continuous improvement by elevating systemic pain points and shaping long-term design decisions.
• Lead development of enterprise performance metrics, reporting frameworks and post implementation value realization measures.

Principal Business Functional Consultant – Transformation

Communications

• Assess and analyze workforce, role and operating model impacts resulting from Transformation program design and deployment decisions across impacted Business Areas.
• Create appropriate models for interim (implementation), stabilization and optimization.
• Enable strategic workforce and operating model decisions by translating program requirements into clear implications for roles, skills, deployment models and ways of working.
• Facilitate cross functional working sessions with BAs, HRBPs, TPMO, other internal stakeholders and external strategic vendor partners (e.g., Business Integrator) to align workforce impacts, sequencing and readiness actions.
• Support integration of workforce impacts into existing HR practices (e.g., job architecture, staffing approaches) through HR-owned processes in close partnership with HRBPs.
• Identify workforce related risks (e.g., capacity, readiness, labor considerations) and escalate material tradeoffs or unresolved issues to the senior leadership.
• Support program culture enablement identifying changes required to decision norms, collaboration models and leader behaviors tied to future state operating model.
• Lead and manage a small team of transformation enablement and/or communications resources, providing direction on priorities, quality standards and capability development aligned to program phases and readiness needs.
• Create communication strategy for the program across enterprise key stakeholders.
• Create communication strategy for the program.
• Align with the Business Integrator and Systems Integrator.
• Develop and execute internal transformation communications related to all program activities to impacted teams across the enterprise aligned to readiness, such as milestones, deployment phases and change impacts.
• Translate complex program and workforce changes into clear, audience appropriate messaging for impacted BAs.
• Coordinate with enterprise and business communication partners to ensure consistency of messaging.
• Maintain a communications cadence that supports readiness, adoption and transparency.
• Partner closely with Change Management, Training, Process roles within the Transformation Readiness to ensure integrated readiness planning.
• Track readiness dependencies related to workforce and communications and surface risks or misalignments early.
• Provide people management for assigned transformation enablement and communications resources.
• Build and sustain transformation capability within the team.
• Ensure team capacity and skills are aligned to program demand across multiple phases.
• Foster a collaborative, outcomes oriented team culture aligned to transformation principles and enterprise values.

Senior Manager, Workforce Enablement & Communications

• Plans, oversees, and coordinates the physical workplace with business and employee needs
• Manages operations and maintenance functions, supports Property Services, and ensures compliance with building codes and safety standards
• Provides customer support and coordinates projects to meet business unit requests
• Assures optimal function of building systems and develops short-term facility utilization plans
• Manages projects with in-house resources or contractors under moderate supervision
• Ensures compliance with codes and standards; oversees contractors for outsourced services
• Administers operations and maintenance activities acquired in leases and contracts
• Provides customer support for Property Services functions and facility sites
• Coordinates and monitors assigned projects, communicating status to customers
• Participates in budget gathering and provides feedback to Property Services
• Maintains vendor relations and enforces contract conditions
• Develop, forecast, and maintain budgets for assigned sites, ensuring alignment with financial targets and service level expectations
• Continuously evaluate and implement cost-saving strategies to reduce spend without compromising quality or operational standards

Facilities Manager

• Responsible for providing the strategic counsel, expertise, vision and leadership for identifying, evaluating, implementing and integrating appropriate financial strategies.
• Oversee the gathering, analysis, preparation and summary of present and future financial budget trends and performance.
• Responsible for presentations to Business Area leaders and works closely with senior leadership to ensure they are effectively utilizing existing financial strategies.
• From a financial perspective, perform complex, confidential studies and analysis.
• Develops and implements unique solutions to complex problems with intangible variance factors, exercises independent judgment in developing methods, techniques and evaluation criterion including interpreting accounting guidance to challenge and obtain the proper financial results.
• Coordinate the financial analysis and support to management for the annual budget process, as well as modeling, analysis and financial support for current year and five year forecasting.
• Leads complex projects and financial evaluations.
• Implements process improvements and business solutions.
• Takes a leadership role in directing and providing guidance to and reviewing the work of Financial Analysts.
• Effectively manage change and assist others in managing change.