Job Location: Texas
Job Detail:
At NRG, we’re bringing the power of energy to people and organizations by putting customers at the center of everything we do. We generate electricity and provide energy solutions and natural gas to millions of customers through our diverse portfolio of retail brands. A Fortune 500 company, operating in the United States and Canada, NRG delivers innovative solutions while advocating for competitive energy markets and customer choice, working towards a sustainable energy future. More information is available at www.nrg.com. Connect with NRG on Facebook, LinkedIn and follow us on Twitter @nrgenergy.
Job Summary
The Sr. Project Analyst will support the portfolio operations and management of initiatives across the cross functional project delivery team within NRG Home. This position will coordinate across all areas of portfolio delivery to ensure all initiatives meet PMM quality standards, assist with portfolio management including creating dashboards, managing capital budget requests, audits, training, etc. This position may also serve as a BA or a PM on projects as needed. Qualified candidates will have a solid understanding of Project Management and Agile fundamentals/methodologies, experience in creating dashboards and reporting for portfolio management as well a working understanding and application of business analysis and project delivery.
Essential Duties/Responsibilities
- Manage funding and tracking of upcoming and new project requests, as well as auditing, maintaining, and reporting on data on existing projects
- Create management reporting for monthly portfolio and scorecard reviews
- Build dynamic project portfolio dashboards and reports through collection of data from multiple source systems, project managers and cross-functional delivery teams
- Create project cost reports for budget reporting
- Work with IT PMO to develop documentation, and communication of processes in support of these activities as needed
- Work with project delivery leadership and IT to standardize and improve delivery practices and tools
- Provide education and coaching on processes and resources for initiation of new projects
- Maintain an organized and accessible repository of portfolio project documentation
- Assist in developing presentations and strategies in support of the PMO and Portfolio team
- Lead the project quality-monitoring process to effectively apply the NRG Project Management Methodology and enforce project standards
- Interact with business stakeholders and subject matter experts to understand project charters and business objectives to gather, document and analyze business needs and translate to requirements for project execution
- Manage annual project benefits and tracking for all capital projects
- Ability to serve as a BA and/or a PM on small initiatives
- Ability to effectively communicate project information both written and verbally with all project stakeholders
- Ability to build and maintain strong relationships with all project stakeholders, including IT and business stakeholders
- Ability to manage stakeholder expectations and communicate with on all levels of a project including senior and executive level management
- Other duties as assigned
Working Conditions
- Remote; flexible to navigate and adjust to a hybrid work environment as needed
- Some overtime required as special projects arise
Minimum Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree
- Minimum of 3 years of analyst experience
Preferred Qualifications
- Minimum of 3 years as an analyst with preferred experience on a project delivery team
Additional Knowledge, Skills And Abilities
- Demonstrated proficiency with metrics and/or data reporting and creating dashboards
- Demonstrated proficiency with portfolio management tool
- Proven capability working with, presenting to and influencing senior executives
- Ability to communicate effectively to a wide range of audiences in both written and oral form
- Attention to detail
- Excellent personal computer skills within a Windows environment, demonstrating advanced working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications
- Ability to work effectively; both independently and with teams
- Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to use good judgment to make recommendations and decisions.
- Comfortably handles risk and uncertainty
- Ability to adapt to rapidly changing priorities
Physical Requirements
- Occasionally requires lifting as appropriate to perform duties and responsibilities.
NRG Energy is committed to a drug and alcohol free workplace. To the extent permitted by law and any applicable collective bargaining agreement, employees are subject to periodic random drug testing, and post-accident and reasonable suspicion drug and alcohol testing. EOE AA M/F/Protected Veteran Status/Disability
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Level, Title and/or Salary may be adjusted based on the applicant’s experience or skills.
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