Business Analyst - East - OPA

As an NRG employee, we encourage you to take charge of your career and development journey. We invite you to explore exciting opportunities across our businesses. You’ll find that our dynamic work environment provides variety and challenge. Your growth is key to our ongoing success—take the lead in shaping your career development, goals and future!

This position requires travel to the plants located on the North East.

Business Analyst, Generation Support – Operations Planning & Analysis

Job Summary

The primary function of this position is to support NRG’s generation fleet. Responsibilities include:

• Supporting PowerSAM and project economic analysis,
• Supporting the Asset Integrity Process and Dashboards,
• Maintaining Unit Characteristic (UC) Portal and facilitating updates,
• Preparing Outage Management summary reports, and
• Summarizing and presenting financial and operational data to executive management.

This role requires a strong technical understanding of conventional power generation assets combined with excellent organizational and problem-solving skills as well as the ability to work collaboratively across various functional groups.

Essential Duties/Responsibilities:

Job responsibilities include but not limited to:

• Manage PowerSAM and fleetwide guidance in the creation of PowerSAM project economic analyses and risk ranking to ensure consistent project prioritization and decision analysis,
• Manage PowerSAM interface with FPR through exports and imports of data including validation of data,
• Responsible for Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 compliance and 302 certifications for PowerSAM controls.
• Maintain the Unit Characteristic (UC) Portal and facilitate updates and approval workflow,
• Support the Asset Integrity Process, Registry, Equipment Scorecard and Dashboard,
• Assist in the preparation and review of operational and financial results, forecasting activities and variance reporting in coordination with FP&A (FPR, SAP, PowerSAM, Plant Characteristics, and Planned Outage Schedules),
• Reconciliation of data across multiple systems,
• Utilize multiple data sources to collect, consolidate and analyze plant data and disseminate information to meaningful reports and/or presentations to executive management,
• Utilize data sources for ad hoc reporting,
• Design and implement tools, develop dashboards and visualizations to facilitate the timely communication and reporting of data that leads to more effective and efficient decision making,

Working Conditions

• Hybrid work environment with office opportunities in either Houston, Pittsburgh, or Princeton.
• Business travel to plant sites and corporate offices will be common and will require overnight trips.

• Willingness to work outside normal business hours as necessary especially during critical issue resolution and to achieve project milestones.

Minimum Requirements

• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite products such as Excel, Word, Teams, and PowerPoint
• Able to pull data from multiple sources and consolidate in a clear and concise format for reporting.
• Strong mathematical skills to support data – driven decision making.
• Ability to analyze data to identify trends and create data visualization.
• Attention to detail and being able to reconcile data to verify accuracy.
• Fundamental knowledge of how power plants operate.

Preferred Qualifications

• BS/BA degree in Business, Engineering, Computer Science, or Mathematics or related quantitative field.

• 3+ years of industry experience with at least 1 year or more directly related to plant operations or heavy industry required.

Additional Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Proficiency, or willing to develop proficiency, in PowerBI and dashboard development.
• Proficiency, or willing to develop proficiency, in specialized NRG business applications such as PowerSAM, PowerGADS, FPR, UC portal, OSS and SAP.
• Decision making, problem solving, analytical analysis and critical thinking skills required.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills are required as well as the ability to work collaboratively across various functional groups. This will be demonstrated across large and small groups of peers or superiors.

• Will be highly organized and able to prioritize deadlines in work-intensive environments.

• Will remain focused and calm in the face of distractions and changing priorities and will have the ability to influence others to do the same.

If you reside in or intend to work remotely from California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Minnesota, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Washington D.C., Washington State or another state or locality with a pay transparency law, you may contact [email protected] for compensation information related to this position and other information as required by applicable law. Please include the job title in your request.

Physical Requirements

Statement

NRG Energy is committed to a drug and alcohol-free workplace. To the extent permitted by law and any applicable collective bargaining agreement, employees are subject to periodic random drug testing, and post-accident and reasonable suspicion drug and alcohol testing. EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability Level, Title and/or Salary may be adjusted based on the applicant's experience or skills. Official description on file with Human Resources.

The base salary range for this position is: $85,680 - $141,360* *The base salary range above represents the low and high end of the salary range for this position. Actual salaries will vary based on several factors including but not limited to location, experience, and performance. The range listed is just one component of the total compensation package for employees. Other rewards may include annual bonus, short- and long-term incentives, and program-specific awards. In addition the position may be eligible to participate in the benefits program which include, but are not limited to, medical, vision, dental, 401K, and flexible spending accounts.

NRG Energy is committed to a drug and alcohol-free workplace. To the extent permitted by law and any applicable collective bargaining agreement, employees are subject to periodic random drug testing, and post-accident and reasonable suspicion drug and alcohol testing. EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability. Level, Title and/or Salary may be adjusted based on the applicant's experience or skills.

Official description on file with Talent.