About Silicon Valley Clean Energy

Formed in 2016, Silicon Valley Clean Energy (SVCE) is a public Community Choice Energy service provider serving approximately 270,000 residential and commercial customer accounts in thirteen Santa Clara County communities. SVCE’s mission is to provide customers with renewable and carbon-free electricity at competitive rates, and further accelerate decarbonization through deployment of innovative local programs. Key program areas include: building electrification, electric vehicles and charging infrastructure, battery storage and demand management programs. Since the organization’s service launch in 2017, SVCE has provided clean to all residential and commercial energy customers in SVCE’s member communities, carbon-free electricity.  SVCE has saved its customers more than $90M and dedicated $84M to customer offers, programs and services. SVCE is a joint-powers agency governed by a Board of Directors comprised of an elected official from each of SVCE’s thirteen member communities. 

By providing reliable and responsive carbon-free electricity service at competitive rates, SVCE maintains a 96+% customer participation rate and a strong financial foundation. Access to carbon-free electricity has helped our communities take a major step in fighting climate change, reducing local emissions by more than 30% from a 2015 baseline. Yet supplying clean electricity is just the start.  It is essential that SVCE continues to proactively engage with our customers and community stakeholders in the electrification journey - helping to inspire, educate, and enable action in transitioning from fossil fuels to clean electricity – in homes, buildings, and transportation. 

The SVCE Culture

Achieving SVCE’s ambitious and urgent mission requires a team capable of meeting the tremendous challenges embedded in these goals. SVCE develops and fosters a diverse and talented team that thrives in a dynamic and fast-changing environment. As such, at SVCE we recruit and retain smart, passionate, innovative, and collaborative employees. Company employees contribute, as a team and as individuals, to continuously building and supporting a culture of collaboration and trust. SVCE employees encourage creativity and the free flow of ideas to spur innovation. The workplace environment is adaptable, and technology enabled to drive innovative solutions. SVCE emphasizes focus and prioritization across departments to achieve quality, rather than simply quantity of output. SVCE provides a rewarding workplace experience where productivity can be maintained across a variety of work environments. SVCE provides opportunities for growth, engagement, and support professional and personal development. SVCE offers opportunities that position their people, as well as SVCE, for success.

More information can be found at: www.svcleanenergy.org

About the role

The Associate Finance, Risk, and Data Specialist works within the Finance and Administration (F&A) team in a matrixed opportunity to support the Finance, Data and Risk functions ultimately supporting SVCE’s decarbonization mission.

Supervision received and exercised

This position reports to the Manager of Finance with a matrixed reporting to Data and Risk functions. This role does not supervise.

Essential Functions

Collaborate across internal teams to understand business needs, goals and objectives and support by providing data, reports, and process driven functionality

For Data support:

• Develop models and algorithms to generate actionable insight from data across the organization
• Evaluate and deploy third-party models, algorithms, and tools, where appropriate
• Design, develop and maintain data analytics dashboards and visualization tools
• Develop, perform and maintain queries and reports
• Work closely with other teams to develop solutions to data-intensive problems
• Support troubleshooting data quality and transfer issues with services providers, PG&E, and customers
• Support configuration and maintenance of the organization’s data systems (cloud- based data warehouse, CRM, etc.)
• Support data requests with key Silicon Valley stakeholders such as research institutions, start-ups, high-tech, students and the community
• Data requests - Support Data Team Tickets/data requests for all SVCE teams
• External: data requests for member agencies
• Ad hoc analytics/visualization support for all SVCE teams
• Mapping support for all SVCE teams
• Transition existing dashboards to the new selected platform
• Create and maintain new dashboards
• Update and maintain Static Slides
• Maintain data resources and documentation (e.g. Data Wiki, data dictionary)
• Data collection (PG&E, Calpine, DMV, tax assessor, etc.)
• Support Salesforce pipeline monitoring & updates
• Support upcoming ActiveCampaign integration

For Risk support:

• Committee meeting administration including agenda coordination and meeting minutes and reparation of risk management middle office
• Weekly counterparty credit reporting and support toward automating out of internal deal capture and risk systems
• Support development, enhancement, complementary system integration, cloud deployment, maintenance, Github code check-in, output to dashboard tools, documentation, training, and staff redundancy for internally developed Python application
• Interface with data team to build dashboards that require HAE (e.g., optimal hedging)
• Deal capture validations and modeling signoff support for new deals during the confirmation process
• Python specialist
• Support the risk team and data team with any ad-hoc data cleaning work

For Finance support:

• Support ad-hoc reporting and data analysis requests and projects as needed
• Work closely with external accountants and support accounting reconciliation requests as needed
• Support other functions such as invoicing and payment processing, and monthly expense analysis and approvals, and overall continues to improve efficiency and accuracy.

Qualifications

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Project management skills, including managing multiple priorities
• Self-directed and comfortable operating in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
• Experience supporting and working with cross-functional teams in a dynamic environment
• Ability to work independently and in a team
• Excellent communication skills, including distilling complex information in a simple and understandable manner

For Data support:

• Strong understanding of statistics, machine learning, and optimization algorithms and principles, and their application (regression analysis, time series, probabilistic models, supervised classification and unsupervised learning)
• A successful history of manipulating, processing and extracting value from large datasets
• Excellent programming and statistical programming skills, including Python and R
• Working knowledge of message queuing, stream processing, and highly scalable ‘big data’ data stores
• Experience working with relational databases, query (SQL) as well as working familiarity with a variety of databases
• Experience working with data visualization tools, ideallyPower BI
• Working knowledge of Salesforce, data warehouse solutions
• Background in energy/CCA sector, data analytics

For Risk support:

• Knowledge of Energy Risk Management and/or Counterparty Credit Management a plus
• Knowledge of Python and PowerBI
• Strong Excel Skills

For Finance support:

• Extremely high level of attention to detail, able to spot data discrepancies and run variance analysis for decision making
• Exceptional analytical skills and experienced in Microsoft Excel tool (including but not limited to pivot table, advanced data analysis functions)
• Basic understanding of financial analysis and accounting reconciliations

Required Qualifications

Experience and Training Guidelines:

Any combination of experience and training that would likely provide the required knowledge and abilities is qualifying. A typical way to obtain the knowledge and abilities would be:

Education:

• A Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited university or college in finance, science, technology, engineering, mathematics, or a related, quantitative field.
• A Master’s Degree in the aforementioned fields can substitute for up to one year of the required experience.
• A Doctoral Degree in the aforementioned fields can substitute for up to three years of the required experience.

Experience:

Relevant intern, project, coursework or work experience in data science, financial analysis or similar, ideally within an electric utility, cleantech field, software company, or similar industry.

Physical and Working Conditions

The physical and mental demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential job functions.

Environment:

Work is performed in a typical office setting with exposure to computer screens and at public events (fairs, meeting rooms, farmers’ markets, etc.) with moderate noise and will require some evening and weekend work. The noise level in the work environment is usually typical of an office environment and public events.

Location:

This position is hybrid flexible to Sunnyvale, CA.

Physical:

While performing the duties of this class, employees are regularly required to sit, walk, and stand; talk or hear, in person and by telephone; reach with hands and arms. Employees are occasionally required to walk, and stand for prolonged periods; stoop, bend, kneel and twist; and may lift up to twenty pounds. Employees must be able to communicate in person, in writing, and by telephone with Board members, management, co-workers, vendors, consultants, and with the public in face-to-face, one-on-one, and group settings.

Vision:

See in the normal visual range with or without correction; vision sufficient to read computer screens and printed documents; and operate assigned equipment.

Hearing:

Hear in the normal audio range with or without correction.

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