Commodity Pricing Business Analyst

San Diego, CA, United States

Calpine Corporation is America's largest generator of electricity from natural gas and geothermal resources with operations in competitive power markets. Its fleet of 76 power plants in operation and one under construction represents nearly 26,000 megawatts of generation capacity. Through wholesale power operations and its retail businesses, Calpine serves customers in 22 states, Canada and Mexico. Its clean, efficient, modern and flexible fleet uses advanced technologies to generate power in a low-carbon and environmentally responsible manner.

The company was established on the premise that a strong commitment to the environment is inextricably linked to excellence in power generation and corporate responsibility. Since its founding in 1984, Calpine has led the power industry in its unwavering commitment to environmental stewardship. In addition, its renewable geothermal plants use steam generated deep below the earth's surface to produce clean, renewable electricity.

Job Summary (includes but is not limited to the following, other duties may be assigned)

This position supports Calpine Energy Solutions' pricing, contracting, and deal-close team. This position is primarily responsible for supporting and updating the pricing, contracting, and deal-close software, including updating key pricing components, managing user account access, making product configuration changes, constructing new products, maintaining contract templates, and ad-hoc data requests. Responsibilities also include developing functional and technical business requirements, completing testing of modifications to systems and interfaces and supporting the users in other various phases of System Development Life Cycle. This position is also responsible for utilizing query tools to analyze, read and retrieve data from various databases. Excellent verbal and written communication skills and attention to detail are essential.

Job Responsibilities

Assist the pricing application Project Manager with maintenance of key pricing input data

Support the pricing application Project Manager by implementing pricing product enhancements and configuration changes in the pricing, contracting, and deal-close software

Act as liaison between the business user community and the pricing application vendor

Provide day to day operational troubleshooting for system issues, bugs, and fixes.

Implement processes and controls to ensure 100% accuracy in daily processing and pricing.

Perform user and integration testing for application upgrades, patches and hot fixes.

Run various queries on settlement and billing application data to validate interfaces are operating properly and data content is accurate.

Develop business requirements documents based upon knowledge of the business processes and meetings with the business owners.

Work with Legal to maintain and update contract documents

Support users by delivering training for pricing, contracting, and deal-close application upgrades and enhancements.

Support users by creating and maintaining training documentation and desktop procedures.

Run and maintain Daily, Weekly and Monthly reports

Job Requirement

Requires a bachelor's degree, preferably in computer science, mathematics, business, economics or at least 3 years of equivalent work experience.

Must possess initiative, advanced decision-making skills and problem solving abilities.

Must possess a working knowledge of the deregulated retail electricity and natural gas markets

Experience with Intelometry’s inRetail software is desired

Experience with basic SQL query tools to extract information from databases (SQL Server) and source applications is required.

Strong Microsoft Excel skills required, including experience with macros and VBA.

1 to 2 years of retail energy related experience is preferable.

Knowledge of Intelometry’s inRetail Software Platform

Excellent verbal and communication skills.

Impeccable attention to detail

Ability to identify issues, analyze data, develop, recommend, and implement solutions.

Self-motivated, goal-oriented, and able to learn independently.

Advanced Proficiency in Word and Excel

Requires problem solving ability and sufficient knowledge of system analysis skills.

Must possess initiative, advanced decision-making skills and problem solving abilities.

Must be able to handle multiple requests at the same time and be able to prioritize one's workload.

Experience with every phase of the System Development Life Cycle

Ability to develop and test data in accordance with system requirements to achieve expected results.

Ability to work in a team environment.

Ability to effectively communicate and gather conceptual ideas and turn into functional requirements.

Ability to convey technical information in a clear and concise manner to other less technically oriented customers

Ability to perform queries using SQL for Microsoft SQL Server.

Sitting and standing for long periods of time.

Some Travel Required

Salary Information - Position is eligible for annual bonus.

Salary range - $54,984.95 to $81,102.60

Additional Calpine Information

Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities, Females, Protected Veterans, and Individuals with Disabilities.

Calpine is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. If you are interested in applying for employment and need special assistance or an accommodation to use our website or to apply for a position, please send an e-mail with your request to [email protected]. Determination on requests for reasonable accommodation are made on case-by-case basis.

#J-18808-Ljbffr