Rate Analyst

Responsibilities

• Champions a corporate culture that emphasizes transparency, integrity, safety, environmental responsibility, employee development, sense of belonging , customer service, and operational excellence.
• Responsible for assisting in the analysis, preparation and filing of various regulatory reports as required by the regulatory bodies that oversee the utility as they relate to rates.
• Assists in monitoring the regulatory compliance of LPSC orders as they apply to Cleco and effects solutions to ensure compliance.
• Assists in preparing, maintaining, and filing of tariffs.
• Assists in maintaining and updating databases that are critical to the economic analysis, financial analysis, and other research needed for regulatory compliance and company business and economic development.
• Assists in performing forecasting and analytical services to support company development and growth.
• Assists in preparing the monthly unbilled revenue calculations.
• Assists in preparing the monthly Fuel and Environmental Cost Adjustments.
• Monitors, maintain, and ensure compliance with all SOX documented controls in Regulatory area.
• Provides analysis and support to other company departments in dealing with rates related questions, data, and issues.
• Support the grid resiliency program by coordinating quarterly and semi-annual compliance reporting from across the various lines of business, provide the calculation of semiannual grid resilience rates based on the projected revenue requirements, coordination of LPSC semi-annual prudency review.

Requirements

• Required Education, Skills & Experience
• Bachelor's degree in Economics, Accounting, Finance or Engineering
• Master's degree preferred
• 0-3+ years of related experience
• Business acumen pertaining to the Utility industry
• Knowledge of leading practices for their practice area
• Planning and project management skills
• Willingness and ability to learn new technologies on the job
• Proficient at functioning effectively within a team environment, present ideas and opinions in a respective and collegial manner
• Licenses and Certifications
• N/A
• Key Competencies
• BEHAVIORAL
• Building Organizational Talent*
• Building Partnerships
• Leading Teams
• Business Acumen
• Communication
• Courage
• Building Self-Insight
• Building Talent*
• Driving for Results
• Energizing the Organization
• Driving Execution
• Building Trusting Relationships
• Driving Innovation
• Planning and Organizing
• Safety
• Establishing Strategic Direction
• TECHNICAL
• Analytical skills
• Compliance
• Policy and Regulation
• Law and Regulation
• Document Management
• Database Reporting
• Database User Interfaces and Queries
• Information Retrieval and Searching
• Development Environment
• May perform other duties as assigned.
• Salary dependent on experience, skills, education, and training.

Additional Information

At Cleco, we're not just powering lives-we're powering a cleaner, smarter future for Louisiana. With bold investments in innovative energy solutions, we're transforming how we power our communities: smarter, cleaner, and more sustainable. This is a long-term commitment to our people and our communities because our future-and the future of generations to come-depends on it. If you're ready to make an impact where it matters most, join us at Cleco- where we're Energizing Your Tomorrow. The Rate Analyst I is an entry level professional with basic knowledge of regulatory principles, practices, concepts, and theories. Provides rate related services in the areas of regulatory compliance, tariff administration, rate design, cost-of-service, load research, unbilled, forecasting, fuel cost analysis, avoided cost, and strategic planning. Serves as an interface between multiple departments including regulatory, governmental, strategic planning, accounting, engineering, marketing, and power supply. Monitors and ensures compliance with regulatory considerations. Assists other Rate Analysts in accomplishing their objectives. Contributes to identifying improvements to regulatory filing activities and procedures.

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