Regulatory Consultant – Regulatory Consultant Principal – Cost of Service

Regulatory Consultant – Regulatory Consultant Principal – Cost of Service

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university AND 2 years relevant field, operations or analytical experience
• (Or) Associate’s degree from an accredited college or university AND 6 years relevant field, operations or analytical experience
• (Or) High School diploma or GED AND 8 years relevant field, operations or analytical experience
• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in Accounting, Business, Economics, Engineering, Finance, Geoscience, Mathematics or similar quantitative degree AND 4 years relative field, operations or analytical experience
• (Or) Associate’s degree from an accredited college or university in Accounting, Business, Economics, Engineering, Finance, Geoscience, Mathematics or similar quantitative degree AND 8 years relative field, operations or analytical experience
• (Or) High School diploma or GED AND 10 years relative field, operations or analytical experience
• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in Accounting, Business, Economics, Engineering, Finance, Geoscience, Mathematics or similar quantitative degree AND 6 years relative field, operations or analytical experience
• (Or) Associate’s degree from an accredited college or university in Accounting, Business, Economics, Engineering, Finance, Geoscience, Mathematics or similar quantitative degree AND 10 years relative field, operations or analytical experience
• (Or) High School diploma or GED AND 12 years relative field, operations or analytical experience
• Proficient oral and written communication skills, including the ability to articulate strategy and provide guidance to management and witnesses
• Must possess analytical problem-solving skills
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office, specifically Microsoft Word and Excel
• Required to work mandatory ‘on-call’ requirements over weekends, holidays, vacations, etc. as necessary to meet regulatory requirements, including filing dates required by the Company or as imposed by an applicable regulatory Commission.

Responsibilities

• Facilitates work activity of others to perform regulatory tasks, such as developing direct and rebuttal testimony, responding to discovery requests, responding to Commission audits, witness preparation, etc.; facilitate organizational unit activities related to specific, unique and/or highly specialized areas of regulatory practice; promotes professionalism and standards, influences the direction of thinking through the organizational unit as a recognized authority; and operates with little supervision in a complex environment.
• Developed knowledge of regulatory matters for the applicable regulatory function performed, cost of service studies.
• Interprets regulatory needs and implements projects, analysis, and process work by establishing measurable goals, objectives and requirements relative to a specific area of responsibility; addresses company system-wide issues within specialized field of expertise; and reviews planned work of others.
• Anticipates, identifies, clarifies, resolves and initiates solutions to internal and/or external unique and specialized problems that sometimes involve analysis of inadequate or conflicting data; and facilitates the development of opportunities, new ideas and approaches that have system-wide impact.
• Works primarily independently, with guidance only on more complex matters, to prepare and present complex regulatory subjects and strategies in a clear, concise and effective manner to management and/or regulatory bodies; demonstrates a developed knowledge of the network channels within the company, other companies, professional organizations, and regulatory agencies.
• Makes complex decisions based on calculated risk and be held accountable for these complex decisions; has a very strong knowledge of the impact of the decisions made on other organizational units internal and external of the company; possesses expert knowledge to defend decisions that are made in the interest of the company; and demonstrates the ability to extrapolate beyond known facts to reach logical conclusions.
• May be asked to testify on behalf of the company but is not a primary requirement of the role.

Preferred Qualifications

• Certified Public Accountant, Certified Internal Auditor, Professional Engineer, or similar certification/licensure and/or master’s degree is preferred.
• Master’s degree, in areas of study identified above, is preferred.
• Certified Public Accountant, Certified Internal Auditor, Professional Engineer, or similar certification/licensure is preferred.