Associate Energy Portfolio Analyst, Settlements

OUC - The Reliable One, is presently seeking a Associate Energy Portfolio Analyst, Settlements to join the Electric & Water Production division. At OUC, we don't just work - we're building a bright future of innovation and transformation for future generations.

We are looking for a detail-oriented, analytical, and financially savvy professional to support the Settlements team in ensuring the accuracy of financial settlements, billing calculations, and data reconciliation activities within the Florida Municipal Power Pool (FMPP).

In this role, you will be responsible for analyzing and reconciling large volumes of operational and financial data used to support monthly settlement billing for utility members. You will compile and validate invoices, perform financial reconciliations, investigate discrepancies across multiple data sources, and support the accurate allocation of energy- and transmission-related costs. You will also assist with audit requests, prepare reports, and help maintain the integrity of settlement processes that directly impact financial outcomes for member utilities.

Success in this role requires the ability to understand how operational activities translate into financial transactions, identify anomalies in data, and exercise sound judgment when documenting and escalating exceptions. You will work closely with internal business partners and external utility stakeholders while gaining valuable experience in energy markets, utility accounting, settlements, and financial analysis.

This position offers a unique opportunity to develop expertise in energy settlements, billing, cost allocation, and utility finance while progressing toward more independent settlement processing and advanced analytical responsibilities.

OUC is an industry leader and the second largest municipal utility in Florida committed to innovation, sustainability, and our community, OUC's mission is to provide exceptional value to our customers and community by delivering sustainable and reliable services and solutions.

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The ideal candidate will have:

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Data Analytics, Engineering, or a related field
• Minimum of six (6) months of experience supporting business operations in electric utility operations, settlements, energy markets, production cost analysis, accounting, or data analysis
• Strong financial and analytical acumen, including experience with reconciliations, billing, invoice processing, financial records, variance analysis, audit support, or participation in financial and operational review processes.
• Strong Excel skills, including pivot tables, lookup functions, data validation, and error tracing, with the ability to analyze, validate, and reconcile large datasets with a high degree of accuracy.
• Exceptional attention to detail, sound judgment, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to investigate discrepancies, manage competing priorities, maintain accuracy under deadlines, and appropriately escalate issues.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with internal stakeholders and external utility partners, provide and receive constructive feedback, and handle confidential information with discretion.
• Demonstrated learning agility and intellectual curiosity, with the ability to quickly learn complex settlement processes, specialized calculations, utility systems, and exception-based workflows.
• Experience in utility operations, energy markets, settlements, or other regulated industries is preferred.

OUC offers a very competitive compensation and benefits package. Our Total Rewards package includes, to cite a few:

• Competitive compensation
• Low-cost medical, dental, and vision benefits and paid life insurance premiums with no probationary period.
• OUC's Hybrid Retirement Program includes a fully-funded cash balance account, defined contribution with employer matching along with a health reimbursement account
• Generous paid vacation, holidays, and sick time
• Paid parental leave
• Educational Assistance Program, to include tuition reimbursement, paid memberships in professional associations, paid conference and training opportunities
• Wellness incentives and free access to all on-site OUC fitness facilities
• Access to family-oriented recreational areas
• Paid Conference and Training Opportunities
• Hybrid work schedule

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Salary Range: $39.26 - $47.11 hourly ($81,667 - $97,999 annually) - commensurate with experience

Location: 6003 Pershing Ave, Orlando, FL 32822

Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States at the time of application. This organization does not offer or sponsor employment visas for internship or full-time positions.

Please see below a complete Job description for this position.

Job Purpose:

The Associate Energy Portfolio Analyst, Settlements supports the Settlements team with day-to-day tasks. This role focuses on high-volume data entry, organizing files, and learning how billing and settlement processes work within the Florida Municipal Power Pool. The Associate helps ensure that data and billing information are accurate, complete, and ready for review by senior team members.

Primary Functions:

• Compile and organize invoices from members, vendors, contractors and consultants.
• Perform routine reconciliations to ensure that data entries match source documentation.
• Send daily operational communications to FMPP members and assist in scheduling committee calls.
• Assist in navigating PCI and OATI systems, performing data exports and routine reports, with guidance from senior staff.
• Retrieve specific invoices or other data requested by auditors during quarterly reviews.
• Assist in processing energy and transmission invoices with counterparties.
• Support the maintenance of the FMPP Outage Planning Tool to optimize seasonal scheduled resource maintenance outages.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Technical Requirements:

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  Working knowledge of all, but not limited to, the following:
  
  
  
  • Invoice Processing
  • Support of business processes
  • Data entry, metrics, and reporting
  • Project support
  
  
  
  
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  Familiarity with all, but not limited to, the following:
  
  
  
  • Utilities Industry and Operations
  • Applicable invoice, purchasing and reporting software applications
  • Related industry, organizational and departmental policies, practices, and procedures; legal guidelines, ordinances, and laws
  
  
  
  
• Strong written, verbal, and interpersonal communications skills
• Strong attention to detail and a desire to learn the electric utility industry.
• Analytical skills including Excel (data validation, lookup logic, pivot tables, error tracing) and large dataset troubleshooting.
• Financial/accounting knowledge including cost allocation, variance analysis, reconciliations, and multi-entity labor/cost recovery
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  Ability to:
  
  
  
  • Prioritize and coordinate multiple assignments to meet deadlines.
  • Develop reports, documents, analyses, manuals, and guides.
  • Interpret and adhere to FMPP governing documents, procedures, and settlement requirements.
  • Design or enhance settlement tools, templates, or automated workflows to improve accuracy and efficiency.
  • Understand financial records.
  • Make arithmetic computations using whole numbers, fractions and decimals, compute rates, ratios and percentages.
  • Use Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Outlook, etc.) and standard office equipment (telephone, computer, copier, etc.).
  
  
  
  

Education/Certification/Years of Experience Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Finance, Accounting, Business, Data Analytics, or a related field of study from an accredited college or university
• Minimum of six (6) months of experience providing support to business operations in electric utility operations, settlements, energy markets, production cost analysis, accounting or data analysis (preferred)

Working Conditions:

This job is absent of disagreeable elements.

Physical Requirements:

This job requires sitting, walking, standing, climbing (i.e. stairs, hills, ladders, etc.), repetitive motions, and may lift up to twenty (20) pounds. This job requires speaking and hearing, reading, writing, typing, and detailed inspection.

OUC-The Reliable One is an Equal Opportunity Employer who is committed through responsible management policies to recruit, hire, promote, train, transfer, compensate, and administer all other personnel actions without regard to race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, disability, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information and any other factor prohibited under applicable federal, state, and local civil rights laws, rules, and regulations.

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