Operational Planning & Cost Performance Advisor

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at Southern California Edison (SCE) and help shape the future of energy. In this role, you will drive operational excellence across Distribution by developing and executing annual and long-term operating plans, ensuring financial and delivery goals are aligned with strategic priorities. You will lead cost-per metric development and reporting, turning financial data into actionable insights that strengthen planning and execution.

With a focus on analysis, governance, and communication, you will monitor budgets, cost variances, and forecasts while advising leadership on risks, opportunities, and performance outcomes. By collaborating across finance, operations, and leadership teams, you will play a critical role in enhancing decision-making, improving efficiency, and supporting a resilient, future-ready grid.

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you will contribute to the development of operating plans, cost-per methodologies, and compliance tracking to ensure alignment between financial strategy and operational execution-driving transparency, affordability, and resilience across the organization.

- Helps define key performance indicators and benchmarks that are closely aligned with strategic goals, establishing targets to measure and evaluate performance across financial, operational, customer, and employee domains.

- Collects and interprets data from diverse sources such as financial statements, operational systems, customer surveys, and market research, applying advanced analytics and data visualization to uncover trends and recommend improvements.

- Designs and distributes performance reports and dashboards that clearly present key metrics and trends, providing stakeholders with a comprehensive view of organizational progress toward goals.

- Works with stakeholders to convert strategic objectives into actionable initiatives and projects, ensuring that performance measures are aligned with organizational strategy, cascaded throughout all levels, and integrated into systems like balanced scorecards or OKRs (Objectives and Key Results).

- Utilizes in-depth data analysis to identify opportunities for performance improvement and works with cross-functional teams to implement strategies that drive efficiency, productivity, and organizational excellence.

- Proactively identifies, assesses, and monitors risks that could impact business performance, developing comprehensive strategies to mitigate these risks and ensure effective risk management.

- Leads engagement efforts with executive leadership, department heads, and operational teams to communicate performance results, share strategic insights, and foster support for improvement initiatives across the organization.

- Oversees ongoing evaluation and enhancement of performance management methodologies, ensuring the organization remains aligned with industry best practices and emerging trends for continuous improvement.

- Provides stakeholders with actionable insights on how organizational changes will affect performance metrics, enabling smoother adaptation to new performance management systems or processes.

- A material job duty of all positions within the Company is ensuring the protection of all its physical, financial and cybersecurity assets, and properly accessing and managing private customer data, proprietary information, confidential medical records, and other types of highly sensitive information and data with the highest standards of conduct and integrity.

Minimum Qualifications

- Seven or more years of experience preparing or supporting performance data analysis/reporting.

Preferred Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in business, finance, engineering, or a related technical discipline; or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.

- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite with advanced skills in Excel, including Power Query and data modeling.

- Experience with Business Intelligence tools, SAS, and SAP for data analysis and reporting.

- Demonstrated ability to lead complex cost reporting, planning, and performance management initiatives.

- Strong understanding of Capital and O&M accounting practices, including budget development and variance analysis.

- Familiarity with work breakdown structures, Continuous Property Records, and jurisdictional cost allocations.

- Excellent communication skills with proven experience presenting insights and recommendations to senior leadership.

Additional Information

- The position's work mode is remote. Employee is able to work primarily at home or remote however, the employee may be expected to come to an SCE facility on occasion. Unless otherwise noted, employees are required to work and reside in the state of California. Hiring organizations can add further requirements related to specific jobs. Further details of this work mode will be discussed at the interview stage. The work mode can be changed based on business needs.

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- Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

- Relocation does not apply to this position.

About Southern California Edison

The people at SCE don't just keep the lights on. Our mission is so much bigger. We're fueling the kind of innovation that's changing an entire industry, and quite possibly the planet. Join us and create a future with cleaner energy, while providing our customers with the safety and reliability they demand. At SCE, you'll have a chance to grow personally and professionally, making a real impact in Southern California and around the world.

Southern California Edison is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status.

We are committed to ensuring that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodations at (833) 343-0727.