Job Title: Business Operations Analyst

Work Place Flexibility: Onsite 

Legal Entity: Entergy Louisiana, LLC 

Job Summary/Description

The Business Operations and Strategy team plays a critical role in shaping Entergy Louisiana’s (ELL) strategic direction by aligning key Operating Company (OpCo) and enterprise functions to drive results. The Business Operations Analyst will support the development of business cases for project prioritization, strategic planning, and implementation across the generation and transmission portfolios, energy efficiency and demand-side management programs, and emerging technologies.

This role will also be responsible for developing and implementing dashboards and key performance indicators (KPIs), managing discovery responses for regulatory cases before the Louisiana Public Service Commission, and researching new policies and trends in the energy industry.

Job Duties/Responsibilities

• Support development of the Operating Company business plan, ensuring alignment with enterprise objectives
• Develop and track metric, scorecards, and accountability measures to monitor performance and progress against strategic goals
• Improve internal decision-making tools and business processes to enhance operational efficiency
• Assist in the development and implementation of departmental internal controls to ensure compliance and operational effectiveness
• Support investor relations communications, advisory board strategy discussions, and other customer facing presentations. 
• Support customer partnerships and MOU discussions for renewables and customer specific sustainability plans
• Support Power Through program, distributed generation, non-wires alternatives, Geaux Green and future expansions of products and services
• Engagement with Customer Service, CCO, KSL, Economic Development, Industrial Accounts, and KAMs on ELL programs
• Support resilience filings and outcomes
• Develop and support analyses required for ELL’s retail and wholesale generation planning efforts
• Develop and support analyses for ELL’s transmission planning efforts
• Manage the Entergy Louisiana Operating Committee

Minimum Requirements

Minimum education required of the position

• Analyst I: Bachelor's Degree in a technical or business-related field required or equivalent work experience
• Analyst II: Bachelor's Degree in a technical or business-related field required or equivalent work experience
• Analyst III: Bachelor's Degree in a technical or business-related field required or equivalent work experience
• Analyst Sr: Bachelor's Degree in a technical or business-related field required or equivalent work experience   
  • Desired: MBA 

Minimum experience required of the position

• Analyst I: 0-2 years of professional experience
• Analyst II: 2-4 years of professional experience
• Analyst III: 4-6 years of professional experience
• Analyst Sr.: 6 plus years of professional experience

Minimum knowledge, skills and abilities required of the position

• Analytical skill set with advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
• Advanced analytical skills and experience working on multiple assignments
• Understands key business drivers; uses this understanding to accomplish own work
• No supervisory responsibilities but has the ability to provide informal guidance to partners across the enterprise and explain complex information to others in a straightforward situation
• Solves problems in straightforward situations; analyzes possible solutions using technical experience and judgment and precedents
• Impacts quality of own work and the work of others on the team; works within guidelines and policies
   

Any certificates, licenses, etc. required for the position Desired:

• None

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Primary Location: Louisiana-Jefferson Louisiana : Jefferson || Louisiana : Baton Rouge 
Job Function: All Other Jobs
FLSA Status: Professional 
Relocation Option: Level II
Union description/code: NON BARGAINING UNIT 
Number of Openings: 2
Req ID: 117934
Travel Percentage:Up to 25%

An Equal Opportunity Employer, Minority/Female/Disability/Vets. Please click here to view the EEO page, or see statements below.

EEO Statement: The Entergy System of Companies provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a protected veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. The Entergy System of Companies complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment including, but not limited to, recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training. 

The Entergy System of Companies expressly prohibits any form of unlawful employee harassment based on race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status. Improper interference with the ability of the Entergy System of Company employees to perform their expected job duties is absolutely not tolerated.

Accessibility: Entergy provides reasonable accommodations for online applicants. Requests for a reasonable accommodation may be made orally or in writing by an applicant, employee, or third party on his or her behalf. If you are an individual with a disability and you are in need of an accommodation for the recruiting process please click here and provide your name, contact number, the accommodation requested and the requisition number that you are requesting the accommodation for. Employee Services will contact you regarding your request.

Additional Responsibilities: As a provider of essential services, Entergy expects its employees to be available to work additional hours, to work in alternate locations, and/or to perform additional duties in connection with storms, outages, emergencies, or other situations as deemed necessary by the company. Exempt employees may not be paid overtime associated with such duties.

 Equal Opportunity

The non-confidential portions of the affirmative action program for individuals with disabilities and protected veterans shall be available for inspection upon request by any employee or applicant for employment.  Please contact HRCompliance@entergy.com to schedule a time to review the affirmative action plan during regular office hours.

EEI Testing:

One way that Entergy has found to identify and assess the abilities and skills needed for certain jobs is through pre-employment testing. If this position does require an EEI test, the type of test will be located under the qualifications section of the job posting. If you are invited to a test session, we strongly recommend you review and complete the practice test as well as review the testing brochure for your respective test.  The test brochure will give you critical information on the test such as time allocated and number of questions.  Also, keep in mind that the actual test is timed; you should practice timing yourself while doing the practice tests. The practice test information and test brochures can be located by going to the EEI website, http://www.eei.org/practicetests, Logon ID:  entergy, password:  practice test (2 words). Travel expenses incurred in connection with EEI testing are non-reimbursable.

In addition to EEI testing there is also Fit-for-Duty testing which will identify and assess the abilities and skills needed for certain jobs. If this position does require Fit-for-Duty testing, the type of test will be located under the qualifications section of the job posting.

WORKING CONDITIONS:
As a provider of essential services, Entergy expects its employees to be available to work additional hours, to work in alternate locations, and/or to perform additional duties in connection with storms, outages, emergencies, or other situations as deemed necessary by the company. Exempt employees may not be paid overtime associated with such duties.

Please note: Authorization to work in the United States is a precondition to employment in this position. Entergy will not sponsor candidates for work visas for this position.