PowerPlan Techno Functional Analyst
Spectraforce
Oakland, California
3 months ago
Job Description
PowerPlan Techno Functional Analyst
Oakland, CA 94612 (Hybrid - 3 days a week, since all project team is here in person Tuesday to Thursday)
Direct Hire/ Permanent
Position Summary
SAP
About Us: SPECTRAFORCE is one of the fastest-growing workforce solutions firms in the United States. As a diversity-owned business, we place human connection at the heart of everything we do, building strong relationships with both clients and candidates to fill roles successfully. Our teams in North and Central America and India serve more than 150 Fortune clients globally, leveraging custom AI technology to provide direct hire, executive search, nearshoring, offshoring, and project staffing solutions.
Benefits: SPECTRAFORCE offers ACA compliant health benefits as well as dental, vision, accident, critical illness, voluntary life, and hospital indemnity insurances to eligible employees. Additional benefits offered to eligible employees include commuter benefits, 401K plan with matching, and a referral bonus program. SPECTRAFORCE provides unpaid leave as well as paid sick leave when required by law.
Equal Opportunity Employer: SPECTRAFORCE is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, disability or veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Please contact Human Resources at LOA@spectraforce.com if you require reasonable accommodation.
California Applicant Notice: SPECTRAFORCE is committed to complying with the California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”) effective January 1, 2023; and all data privacy laws in the jurisdictions in which it recruits and hires employees. A Notice to California Job Applicants Regarding the Collection of Personal Information can be located on our website. Applicants with disabilities may access this notice in an alternative format by contacting NAHR@spectraforce.com.
LA County, CA Applicant Notice: If you are selected for this position with SPECTRAFORCE, your offer is contingent upon the satisfactory completion of several requirements, including but not limited to, a criminal background check. We consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with all local ordinances and state laws, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers (FCO) and the California Fair Chance Act (FCA). The background check assessment will consider whether a criminal history could reasonably have a direct, adverse impact on the job-related safety, security, trust, regulatory compliance, or suitability for this role. Such findings may result in withdrawal of a conditional job offer.
At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $140000.00/yearly.
Oakland, CA 94612 (Hybrid - 3 days a week, since all project team is here in person Tuesday to Thursday)
Direct Hire/ Permanent
Position Summary
- The role is to configure, implement, maintain, and upgrade PowerPlan all modules.
- The Functional Analyst analyzes business requirements, creates functional design documents, and performs PowerPlan system configuration and localization to provide system solutions for the Line of Business and IT organizations.
- This role is viewed as an integral strategic partner and business liaison in technology decisions and provides ongoing PowerPlan system support. This includes analyzing business requirements and developing integrated IT and complex business solutions.
- Define standard processes in PowerPlan and drive adaptation in Finance and Tax areas.
- Analyze end-to-end complex business processes across all modules within PowerPlan.
- Understand in detail the current and future business environment of the business organizations; effectively anticipate, identify, and fully meet the business needs using an integrated approach leveraging existing and new PowerPlan capabilities.
- Identify, propose, and influence IT solutions to complex cross- organizational business problems utilizing ERP capabilities; negotiate requirements and deliverables across multiple business and IT customers and organizations.
- Evaluate current customizations in the system to help business and IT partners understand risks and costs of customizing vs. using standard functionalities, advocating for using standard functionalities to lower future implementation cost and total cost of ownership (TCO) for solutions.
- Automate/optimize PowerPlan system
- Map business requirements to SAP S4 system capabilities and configure to meet requirements
- Review design and technical specification documents for alignment with business solution
- Perform PowerPlan configuration and do quality review and testing activities
- 10 years of job-related experience in Information Technology
- 8 years of experience as a Functional Analyst in PowerPlan system
- Familiarity with CR, PM, Asset/ARO, Depr modules and their data flow
- Project creation, estimating, approval
- Collecting and classifying charges (derivations and true-up)
- In-service and completion of work orders
- PowerTax and Tax Repairs
- Creating checks and balances to prevent data issues in automated processes
- Lease Accounting Module** (if PGE uses PowerPlan)
- Month-End Close Processes
- PowerPlan Integration Tools
- SDLC and Integration Best Practices/ETL processes
SAP
- Familiarity with SAP tables and structure
- SAP GUI experience and documenting integrations
- Hana Experience - SAP settlement process and integration impacts with PowerPlan/capital projects
- Large ERP projects, integrations with forecasting and FP&A systems
- Dashboarding tools for metric tracking
- Accounting Concepts in Asset Management/Depreciation
- Mass property accounting
- Group depreciation - Various asset retirement methods
- ARO accounting
- Book vs. tax depreciation
- FERC system of accounts and new accounts for renewables and Software/hardware/communications equipment effective 01/2025
- AFUDC/CPI/capitalized interest
- Managing differing capitalization/recovery schedules for GAAP vs. FERC - Rate cases, depreciation studies, and supporting documentation for assets in GRC - Clauses and tracking recovery costs separately from normal rate base assets
- Mergers and Acquisitions/Divestitures
- Interacting with both technical and non-technical team members to resolve issues
- Communicating success/failure stories to management teams
About Us: SPECTRAFORCE is one of the fastest-growing workforce solutions firms in the United States. As a diversity-owned business, we place human connection at the heart of everything we do, building strong relationships with both clients and candidates to fill roles successfully. Our teams in North and Central America and India serve more than 150 Fortune clients globally, leveraging custom AI technology to provide direct hire, executive search, nearshoring, offshoring, and project staffing solutions.
Benefits: SPECTRAFORCE offers ACA compliant health benefits as well as dental, vision, accident, critical illness, voluntary life, and hospital indemnity insurances to eligible employees. Additional benefits offered to eligible employees include commuter benefits, 401K plan with matching, and a referral bonus program. SPECTRAFORCE provides unpaid leave as well as paid sick leave when required by law.
Equal Opportunity Employer: SPECTRAFORCE is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, disability or veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Please contact Human Resources at LOA@spectraforce.com if you require reasonable accommodation.
California Applicant Notice: SPECTRAFORCE is committed to complying with the California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”) effective January 1, 2023; and all data privacy laws in the jurisdictions in which it recruits and hires employees. A Notice to California Job Applicants Regarding the Collection of Personal Information can be located on our website. Applicants with disabilities may access this notice in an alternative format by contacting NAHR@spectraforce.com.
LA County, CA Applicant Notice: If you are selected for this position with SPECTRAFORCE, your offer is contingent upon the satisfactory completion of several requirements, including but not limited to, a criminal background check. We consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with all local ordinances and state laws, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers (FCO) and the California Fair Chance Act (FCA). The background check assessment will consider whether a criminal history could reasonably have a direct, adverse impact on the job-related safety, security, trust, regulatory compliance, or suitability for this role. Such findings may result in withdrawal of a conditional job offer.
At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $140000.00/yearly.