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    Continuous Improvement Associate IV(18485) - Pittsburgh, United States - Duquesne Light Company

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    Description

    The Continuous Improvement Associate, will be responsible for the collection, prioritization and execution plans for improvement ideas and will support their subsequent implementation in line with the overall finance transformation strategy. The position will work closely with leaders and subject matter experts within the finance organization and enterprise-wide to harness ideas as well as support implementation projects derived from the Finance Roadmap. The Continuous Improvement Associate will work together with the Continuous Improvement Office within the Corporate Strategy group to ensure that the financial results of all initiatives follow the methodology and framework as designed by the Corporate Continuous Improvement Office. This role requires ability to effectively adapt and improvise Finance to generate approaches that best fit operational and organizational constraints. You will be responsible for assisting the department of Finance with performance benchmarking, improvement plans, aid in root cause analysis, and support solution delivery.

    This role holds the potential for high impact to the Finance organization as it underpins our focus on operational excellence and in particular our objective to identify and sustain value within the organization. The ideal candidate will be joining the Finance Transformation Office and will help establish and identify financial best practices as the organization molds a new culture at DLC.

    Primary Duties & Responsibilities:

    1. The Accumulation of Ideas
    • Support the preparation all materials required to host the ideation sessions under the guidance of the Transformation Manager
    • Coordinating with the change management organization pre-Ideation sessions including any training required
    • Working with the business unit participants in the ideation sessions
    • Executing the coordination of ideation sessions including all participants
    • Communicating effectively to inform the organization and the participants of the activities of Affordability and Innovation Management (AIM) for corporate business functions including Finance, Operations Services, Human Resources, Office of General Counsel and Strategy.
    1. The Evaluation and Prioritization of Ideas
    • Creating and/or confirming all required approvals for sustainable savings and ideation sessions
    • Tracking of ideas that come into the sessions and handling initial.
    • Working within the AIM team to further clarify all ideas, confirm financial and other data and prioritize ideas to be implemented at initiatives.
    • Confirm owner, schedule, planned benefits of each idea.

    3. The Monthly variance analysis of initiatives

    • Reinforcing the methodology while ensuring monthly variance analyses are completed.
    • Creating reporting needs for finance partners to utilize in support of required analyses.
    • Understanding financial performance of initiatives and drivers of performance variances
    • Facilitating solutions with Financial Planning & Analysis and Operations Finance on monthly reporting and present results to executive leadership monthly
    1. The Tracking of Idea Implementation
    • A dashboard will need to be maintained and improved to track all ideas as they progress through the stage gates.
    • Basic program management activities such as status reporting, schedules, issues, and risks
    • Working across the business units to follow up and assist as necessary with each initiative implementation.

    5. Support the Finance Transformation Office

    • Align initiatives with the finance roadmap derived from the finance health check and support with implementation.
    • Support the Finance Transformation Manager in execution of portfolio initiatives.
    • Collaborate with key stakeholders within and outside of Finance to understand business needs.
    • Support in creation and updates of Finance Transformation metrics

    Education/ Experience Requirements:

    • Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Data Analytics, or other applicable discipline
    • Five (5) years related experience

    Preferred Qualifications Include

    • Previous experience in Lean Methodology, Six Sigma and Change Management
    • Financial acumen and excellent communication skills
    • Significant experience in utilizing Microsoft Excel and/or data modeling
    • Proven experience interacting with cross-business units preferred
    • Previous experience with a highly capital-intensive industry and some experience with ideation execution and implementation

    Scope

    Primary focus is on daily deliverables, outputs and reporting. Accountable for managing one's own time and work flow but may be leading projects or project steps. Work is typically complex in nature requiring the incumbent to draw on previous knowledge to perform role. Continues to build knowledge base but has a solid foundation to act independently the majority of the time. Still draws on experts and managers when needed but less frequently. Acts as a resource to less experienced staff on routine issues.

    Decision Impact

    Problems and issues faced are complex. Draws on past experience on a regular basis to solve problems and take new perspectives on existing solutions. Accountable for direct level of reasoning and decision making.

    Hybrid Work

    Position follows our hybrid work model, with a minimum of two days working in the office and the remaining days working remotely. Reporting location and frequency may be subject to change based on job role and department needs.

    Storm Roles

    All Non-Union Employees will serve in storm roles as appropriate to their role and skillset. Please be sure to discuss storm roles with the hiring manager for this position, as duties can vary across the Company. Examples of storm roles could include but aren't limited to duties such as: working with operations for service center support or with the communications, customer service or government affairs teams to respond to public and customer requests for information, etc.

    Data Stewardship

    • Maintain accountability and oversight of data for related business area, documenting related data management procedures, methods and techniques


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