Principal General Ledger Accounting & Consolidation Analyst

Requisition ID# 162377

Job Category: Accounting / Finance

Job Level: Manager/Principal

Business Unit: Customer & Enterprise Solutions

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland

Department Overview

Enterprise Business Processes is a cross-functional organization that is leading PG&E's Propel program, a major business and technology modernization program to unlock customer value by simplifying the way we work together. Propel will migrate PG&E to the new version of SAP, S/4HANA, seizing this unique opportunity for PG&E to standardize business processes, clean the technology core, and enable innovation for breakthrough change across Engineering, Operations, Finance, Supply Chain, Human Resources, and Information Technology. Through a phased approach, Propel will implement process standardization, operating model changes, data improvements, SAP, and other technology applications with a focus on incrementally improving business capabilities and delivering value. Enterprise Business Processes is comprised of multi-disciplinary coworkers with deep functional and industry expertise to design and implement end-to-end business processes and technology solutions following industry leading practices. The team partners closely with IT and external partners to work collaboratively with many stakeholders to adopt standard processes and maximize use of out-of-the-box proven technology solutions to meet business needs. Each role in this department offers immense career growth potential and a once-in-a lifetime opportunity to accelerate the outcomes of our True North Strategy and deliver for our customers.

Project Overview

Propel is a PG&E program that will lead our migration to the new version of SAP: S/4 HANA. The transition from our current version of SAP, set to expire in 2027, provides a unique opportunity to standardize end-to-end processes, clean our technology core, and enable modernization and innovation across the company. The scope of the project includes our business processes across finance, work and asset management, supply chain, and human resources.

For Finance, in scope are our Record to Report and Forecast to Plan major processes where we are looking to build future processes by streamlining, automating, and integrating end-to-end processes not only across Finance, but across all other relevant areas such as work and asset management, supply chain, and human resources.

Currently, we recently began the Enterprise Design phase (an integrated and coordinated design pahse that works across all areas of scope listed above) where we will create a process-driven, detailed outline of how S/4HANA will look across PG&E's business and application landscape. Following the Enterprise Design phase, we plan to launch Propel in four scheduled releases. This staged approach will allow us to learn from each release and make improvements. The specific order we're following will help us minimize business risk and day-to-day coworker impacts.

Following the Enterprise Design phase, we plan to launch Propel in four scheduled releases. This staged approach will allow us to learn from each release and make improvements. The specific order we're following will help us minimize business risk and day-to-day coworker impacts.

Position Summary

The General Ledger Principal Analyst role will be instrumental in helping to design, test, integrate, and implement PG&E's Record to Report (RTR) workstream. Design topics to include, but are not limited to:

• Month End Close

• General Ledger

• Consolidation

• Financial Attributes

• Journal Entries

• Allocations / Cost Flow

• Transparency of Costs

• Integrations with Work Management, HR, Sourcing, PowerPlan, etc.

The successful candidate will work closely with their Systems Integrator (SI) counterpart to run various workshops with SMEs throughout Finance and the Enterprise to evaluate and decide upon key future state designs. Workshop preparation will be a key activity entailing benchmarking with other Finance organizations and Utilities, laying out options and explaining the impact of those choices. Ultimately the preparation work will enable the program to make quick and well-informed decisions. The successful candidate will continue to maintain contacts and connections within the Finance Organization and will work closely with cross-functional project teams. This individual must be curious; open to new ideas; execution-oriented; willing to speak up; able to keep workshop groups on topic and driving decisions; willing to push our SI partners for nothing but the best.

This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and your assigned location based on business needs.

PG&E is providing the salary range that the company in good faith believes it might pay for this position at the time of thejob posting. This compensation range is specific to the locality of the job. The actual salary paid to an individual will bebased on multiple factors, including, but not limited to, specific skills, education, licenses or certifications, experience,market value, geographic location, and internal equity. Although we estimatethe successful candidate hiredinto this rolewill beplaced between the entry point and the middle of the range, the decisionwill be made on a case-by-casebasis related tothese factors.

This job is also eligible to participate inPG&E's discretionary incentive compensation programs.

A reasonable salary range is:

Bay Area Minimum: $126,000

Bay Area Maximum: $200,000

Job Responsibilities

• Develops workshop materials to educate and guide SMEs to make well-informed decisions.

• Co-leads and facilitates workshops with SI Partner, avoiding diversions and staying on topic.

• Documents and critically reviews deliverable content.

• Assists with developing and reviewing test scenarios and test scripts.

• Participates as SME in workshops in other areas to ensure Cost Model requirements are met and designs are analyzed for integration impacts.

• Anticipates challenges and bottlenecks and is resourceful at developing and implementing innovative solutions.

• Participates in benchmarking efforts, possibly including industry sessions and conferences, to learn/share best in class practices.

Qualifications

Minimum:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or related field, or equivalent work experience

• Minimum 8 years of accounting experience

Desired:

• Experience in working in or implementing S4

• Experience in using month-end closing tool such as SAP AFC or ECC closing cockpit

• of accounting systems, establishing business requirements for system design, and strategy development with systems which interface or integrate

• Knowledge of FERC accounting requirements

• Certified Public Accountant (CPA) or equivalent

• In depth understanding of the regulatory pr.