Senior Manager, IT Investments

Requisition ID # 158394 

Job Category: Information Technology 

Job Level: Senior Manager

Business Unit: Information Technology

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland

Department Overview

The IT Investment Management Department provides planning, product, business, and operations management analysis and support in the following areas: planning, research support, data analysis and reporting, resource management, regulatory strategy, process governance, budgetary requirements and spend, in support of business decision making, strategy, and operations. Provides input, support, and analysis to general IT business processes, assists in the development of a prioritized budget for the IT organization and works with other financial or data personnel to ensure accurate and timely operations, budget, and/or project management. May also be involved in business process improvement, quality control, special projects, and other initiatives.

Position Summary

The Senior Manager, IT Investments & Regulatory Management is responsible for supporting PG&E’s business vision by improving service quality, increasing capabilities through the deployment of application and infrastructure projects by providing a framework that will support all stakeholders, product, and project teams to improve the probability of successful delivery. The Senior Manager provides executive management & business clear insights into the drivers of business, financial, and compliance performance and risk. Aids in business plan deployment, investment planning and regulatory support. Manages day-to-day activities to ensure organization goals and requirements are met with both Planning/Prioritization and Regulatory of IT Investments. Collaborates with and manages cross functional teams to provide end-to-end program support, operational financial support, and analysis & governance. Provides leadership for those involved in the development, implementation, maintenance, support, and operations of PG&E's systems infrastructure and applications.

The role is hybrid working from your remote office and in-person 1-2x weekly at the Oakland General Office or as business needs require.

PG&E is providing the salary range that the company in good faith believes it might pay for this position at the time of the job posting. This compensation range is specific to the locality of the job. The actual salary paid to an individual will be based on multiple factors, including, but not limited to, specific skills, education, licenses or certifications, experience, market value, geographic location, and internal equity. Although we estimate the successful candidate hired into this role will be placed between the entry point and the middle of the range, the decision will be made on a case-by-case basis related to these factors.​

This job is also eligible to participate in PG&E’s discretionary incentive compensation programs.

A reasonable salary range is:​ 

Bay Area Minimum:        $155,000             

Bay Area Maximum:       $265,000

Job Responsibilities

• Manages a team to ensure the successful fulfillment of IT development and service delivery commitments.
• Oversee all aspects of the budgeting, forecasting, and reporting processes - ensure accuracy and predictability of results and key metrics to enable planning our investment strategies with measurable outcomes, risks, and assumptions
• Oversee centralization and organization of siloed datasets and systems to deliver insights cross-functionally
• Oversee and support regulatory strategy, planning and testimony preparation
• Oversee the design and delivery of reports and insights that analyze business functions and key operations and performance metrics.
• Analyzes portfolio financial performance and recommends changes to achieve goals; uses reporting tools to monitor portfolio activities, and regularly brief IT and business leaders on portfolio performance to enable investment strategies for planning up to 10-year horizons
• Liaise closely with Finance and other Business Units to ensure accurate & robust budget monitoring
• Develops relationship across IT and our business units, with the goal of growing meaningful relationships that will facilitate collaborations and communications.
• Achieve results through others by setting and communicating goals and metrics, monitoring progress; providing ongoing coaching and feedback, and reinforcing behaviors that drive high performance.
• Manages the assessment of risks and the execution of plans to mitigate the risks.
• Communicates and champions the requirements necessary to execute the IT investment portfolio.
• Develops and manages service level agreements with business partners.
• Develops, prioritizes, coordinates, and communicates the goals and processes necessary for implementing the investment portfolio and critical programs/projects.
• Ensures compliance to Standards/regulations and governance processes.
• Ensures staff has the resources and skills needed to support all programs/initiatives/projects.
• Establishes individual and department objectives that are aligned with organization goals. Implements PG&E practices for staffing, EEO, diversity, performance management, development, reward and recognition, and retention.
• Manages the identification, analysis, valuation, and execution of system investments for program/project delivery and support operations; manages the execution of technology roadmaps
• Proactively engage with cross functional leadership to identify opportunities for business improvement and optimization
• Oversees a team who manages state and federal rate cases and regulatory proceedings (GRC, TO, RAMP, and others) planning, and testimony development for IT
• Defines and implements ongoing processes to support integrated regulatory planning
• Works with Senior IT leadership to develop rate case strategy
• Oversees the work with IT witness teams to develop rate case testimony and workpapers, determine IT rate case content, timing, and deliverables to meet all obligations and deadlines
• Oversight of the IT line organizations to establish roles and responsibilities, process, content, deliverables, and timeframes around rate case planning
• Oversight of the research and studies for utility industry practices and/or benchmarks with industry peers to better support case and company position
• Ensures processes and tools to ensure IT regulatory plan is aligned with organizational goals and vision and IT roadmaps are aligned to regulatory requirements
• Oversight of the team who coordinates and manages all required IT regulatory filings

Qualifications

Minimum:

• Bachelors Degree in Business Administration, Economics, Finance, Computer Science or job-related discipline or equivalent experience
• 6 years of experience in IT strategy planning and/or program management or infrastructure/operations to include two years of managing large projects/programs in a timely, cost-effective, and solutions-oriented manner.

Desired Knowledges, Skills, and Abilities:

• Ability to influence business leadership and management decisions and drive ownership and acceptance of change to the business.
• Ability to translate complex business requirements into IT solutions
• Ability to estimate the financial impact of IT decisions
• Excellent analytical and technical skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience with Financial Planning & Analysis
• Utility industry experience
• Regulatory background/experience
• People Leadership experience, IT-Information Technology and Finance
• PMI-Project Management Institute PMP-Project Management Professional certification
• Ability to foster a work environment in which individuals collaborate in pursuit of a common mission and mutual goals
• Lean Six Sigma Certification
• Extensive knowledge of spreadsheet software, data visualization tools,
• Extensive knowledge of financial modeling methodologies & techniques
• Experience in program management, financial management, & product/project analysis
• Proficient in conceptualizing creative solutions, as well as documenting them and presenting/selling them to senior management
• Demonstrated ability to develop and manage to budgets
• Demonstrated ability to explain necessary trade-offs and balances between immediate and tactical needs or issues with PG&E leaders
• Capability to track program/project benefits realization and lessons learnt activities to feed into ongoing improvements
• Experience leading teams, people, projects, and developing people and their careers
• Organized, strategically focused, detail oriented, and able to deal with ambiguity in a constantly evolving environment
• Highly collaborative, able to work cross-functionally; possessing the ability to forge relationships and partner effectively