The Field Senior Analyst position will office at the Oklahoma City 50th Street site. This position will provide assistance and support to the Central Division Operations' leadership as well as the Division Technical Operations' staff in tracking Capital Maintenance and/or O&M costs associated with the Oklahoma gas gathering and transmission pipes and compression assets along with Pipeline Integrity work. The Field Senior Analyst will be responsible for assisting the engineering and construction ... more details
Summary:
The Field Senior Analyst position will office at the Oklahoma City 50th Street site. This position will provide assistance and support to the Central Division Operations' leadership as well as the Division Technical Operations' staff in tracking Capital Maintenance and/or O&M costs associated with the Oklahoma gas gathering and transmission pipes and compression assets along with Pipeline Integrity work. The Field Senior Analyst will be responsible for assisting the engineering and construction management teams with functions to include Project Pulse Data management, WBS(creation, closing, tracking, and approval), PO request, invoice processing, Gform processing and creation, and other task associated with project execution.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
The general nature and level this job requires a high level of knowledge, skills and abilities to perform complex, technical and/or administrative assignments with several variables and alternatives. Exercises some discretion and independent judgment to resolve problems, as compared to following procedures and practices, and reports results to management.
This position is the “Go-To” person for all Administrative related activities and procedures for the DTO.
Work Plans and Budgets
- Assists areas and teams with the preparation of the annual capital and/or o&m budgets. This involves reviewing historical cost data, interviewing area and team personnel, focusing on planned usage of manpower, materials, supplies, equipment and other associated costs.
- Recommends prioritization of activities considering available resources and prepares final budget documentation for management approval.
- Gathers data related to utilization of resources, completes required reports and documents and compares results with established standards and recommends to supervision any required actions.
- Assists department and area management in developing budget guidelines and processes to be followed by their area.
Cost Control Analysis
- Ensures that area and team level o&m and/or capital budget information is gathered, consolidated, reviewed and reported to area and Oklahoma Operations upper management.
- Reviews, monitors and analyzes actual results versus o&m and/or capital budgets.
- Reviews financial and statistical data to determine reasons for variances to prepare required documentation.
- Reviews and analyzes trends and variances to recommend changes in the usage of resources.
- Assist area and division supervision in identifying underutilized resources and scheduling of workforce.
- Review variances from standard administrative practices, identifies potential problems and notifies supervision of significant deviations.
Training/New System and Procedure Development
- May be called on to participate in the review, development, design and implementation of processes and systems (manual and automated) to satisfy internal and external information and reporting needs and requirements.
- Responsible for the training of area and division personnel in all administrative procedures and methods, which include use of computer programs/applications.
- Schedules, plans and conducts training and/or meetings within individual areas of expertise when applicable.
Contractual Agreements
- Has an understanding of the contracts for service requirements and process.
- May be called on to assist team/area personnel with the preparation and submission of requests for new contracts for service agreements or requests for work activation orders.
- Will manage the process to review team requests for third-party service that don’t meet the requirements for formal contracts for service. This includes verifying requested work is budgeted, competitive bids are obtained when required, verifying contractors have proper licenses and sufficient insurance coverage and insuring contracts are in place with prospective service providers.
Researches and Processes Requests for Information
- Prepares and/or assists in research and preparation of requests for information, special projects and reports requested by operations and engineering, other departments and third-parties.
- Involves researching, analyzing and compiling various data.
- May coordinate the work of lower-level analysts in their respective area.
- Works with all levels of personnel within operations and engineering and other departments to furnish and obtain information, resolve problems, etc., concerning aspects of assigned duties.
- Works with confidential information, such as personnel changes and personal employee data.
- Performs other duties as assigned that are necessary to implement departmental goals.
Requirements:
Education and/or Experience, Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential job duty satisfactorily. The requirements for this position are listed below:
- Bachelor’s degree in business administration, accounting, finance, mathematics, computer science or industrial engineering, or additional equivalent experience.
- 5-8 years of analytical experience, preferably in the gas transmission industry, in any of the following areas: cost or budget analysis; system or procedures analysis; computer operation or programming; or contract administration or analysis.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Proficient use of financial systems and analysis tools, including Microsoft Excel and PowerBI with the ability to manipulate and analyze data.
- SAP Experience or related ERP preferred.
- Possess excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work closely with all levels of organization.
- Excellent organizational skills and follow through skills required.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Ability to perform multiple tasks with minimal supervision.
- Ability to work overtime on short notice. Some travel and overnight stays required.
- Position to be filled commensurate with skill set, education and experience.