Senior Advisor, Transmission & Distribution Operational Planning & Cost Performance

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Become a Senior Advisor, Transmission & Distribution Operational Planning & Cost Performance at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this job, you'll play a pivotal part in shaping how SCE's Transmission & Distribution organization plans, funds, and executes its operational work. You will be responsible for balancing affordability, reliability, and performance delivery by integrating Capital and O&M operating plans, ensuring financial and operational strategies are fully aligned to support a resilient, future-ready grid. This is a unique opportunity to influence enterprise-level decisions, translate complex data into actionable strategies, and establish operating plans for billions of dollars in annual investments across Transmission & Distribution.

As a Senior Advisor, you will partner closely with Substation Leadership, Operational Finance, Resource Planning, and Subject Matter Experts to provide a clear and transparent view of the Substation Construction & Maintenance financial portfolio-from budgeting through forecasting. You will lead the development of operating plans, cost-per methodologies, and compliance tracking, while mentoring team members and fostering collaboration across departments. The Senior Advisor plays a critical leadership role in guiding operational planning, cost analysis, and performance management across T&D. By ensuring alignment between financial strategy and operational execution, you will drive transparency, affordability, and resilience across the organization, strengthening SCE's ability to deliver reliable energy and support California's clean energy future.

As a Senior Advisor, Transmission & Distribution Operational Planning & Cost Performance, your work will help power our planet, reduce carbon emissions and create cleaner air for everyone. Are you ready to take on the challenge to help us build the future?

Responsibilities

• Define key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics that align with the organization's strategic goals; establish benchmarks and targets to measure and evaluate performance across different areas such as financial, operational, and customer satisfaction and employee productivity.
• Lead the gathering and reporting of company performance metrics, including financial, operational, and customer metrics (KPIs); provide insights on the impact of changes on performance metrics and help stakeholders adapt to new processes.
• Oversee the creation of performance reports and dashboards that clearly and concisely present key metrics and trend; share these reports with stakeholders to provide a comprehensive view of the organization's performance and track progress towards strategic goals.
• Work with stakeholders to translate strategic objectives into actionable initiatives and project; ensure that performance measures are aligned with the organization's strategy.
• Integrate performance management systems, such as balanced scorecards or OKRs (Objectives and Key Results).
• Identify areas for performance improvement based on data analysis and insights.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop and implement strategies, initiatives, and process improvements that drive efficiency, productivity, and cost savings.
• Assess and monitor risks that may impact business performance. Identify potential risks, develop risk mitigation strategies, and establish monitoring mechanisms to ensure that risks are effectively managed.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across the organization, including executives, department heads, and operational teams. Facilitate discussions, workshops, and presentations to communicate performance results, share insights, and gain buy-in for performance improvement initiatives.
• Continuously evaluate and refine performance management processes and methodologies.
• 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.

• Ten or more years of experience preparing or supporting performance data analysis/reporting.

• Bachelor's degree or higher in business, finance, engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Seven or more years of experience in the Electric Utility industry.
• Seven or more years of experience overseeing annual and long-term operational plan development for O&M and Capital activities
• Seven or more years of experience and expertise developing and refining cost-per methodologies across Transmission & Distribution work activities and commodities, linking financial actuals to performance insights for planning and execution.
• Experience and ability to lead high-complexity cost reporting and variance analysis, including monthly budget/forecast reviews and ad-hoc performance analyses.
• Seven or more years of experience and proficiency in data collection, transformation, and analysis using internal reporting systems, SAP, SAS, and Business Intelligence tools.
• Experience and proven success facilitating senior executive meetings, presenting to executive leadership, and advising on risks, opportunities, and performance outcomes.
• Seven or more years of experience mentoring and guiding staff, fostering professional growth and building high-performing teams.
• Experience and familiarity with work breakdown structures, Continuous Property Records, and jurisdictional cost allocations.
• Experience with governance and project control, including maintaining cost monitoring systems, ensuring accurate spend/volume tracking, and driving improvements in reporting and analysis.

• 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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• Relocation does not apply to this position.