Contract Administration Specialist - Data & Process Improvement

Join the Clean Energy Revolution

Become a Contract Administration Specialist - Data & Process Improvement at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this job, you will leverage your expertise in contract administration, regulatory compliance, data analysis, and process improvement to ensure contractual obligations are met, operational performance is optimized, and customers receive exceptional service. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, utilize data and automation tools such as Microsoft Power Apps and Power Automate to drive efficiencies, develop meaningful insights through reporting and visualizations, and contribute to innovative solutions that support SCE's mission of delivering safe, reliable, and sustainable energy to our communities.

As a Contract Administration Specialist - Data & Process Improvement, your work will help power our planet, reduce carbon emissions and create cleaner air for everyone. Are you ready to take on the challenge to help us build the future?

Responsibilities

• Advises relevant stakeholders regarding contractual rights and tariff obligations, providing interpretation of contract terms and conditions and applicable regulations to relevant stakeholders.

• Support negotiations of contract terms and conditions with customers and stakeholders to ensure compliance with relevant tariffs. This includes grasping the objectives of the change, identifying areas for compromise, and achieving mutually beneficial agreements. Interprets, analyzes, communicates and resolves issues that arise during application intake. Creates, supports negotiation and incorporates change orders and amendments into key on-going contracts.

• Develops and/or follows processes to ensure that contracts are managed efficiently, consistently, and in compliance with the organization's commitments under the contracts and its regulatory obligations.

• Completes data entries in the contract management database and electronic storage system accurately and timely.

• Monitors compliance with tariff contract requirements, and reporting on contract information, development status, and performance to internal parties and regulatory agencies.

• Performs research on legal issues impacting the organization, identifying applicable statutes, regulations, and prime contract requirements and analyzing their application and effect on the organization's business operations.

• Manages shared program mailboxes, including promptly responding to questions/inquiries from internal and external customers on contract performance, compliance, and other contractual matters.

• Coordinates meetings, develops agendas, summarizes, and documents decisions and action items, and disseminates meeting minutes.

• Reviews low-complexity contracts to identify potential risks, liabilities, and ambiguities, which includes analyzing legal language, financial implications, performance metrics and compliance requirements to ensure contracts align with organizational objectives and contractual obligations are met.

• Performs various financial and journal entries to aid in the reconciliation of projects including non-PO's, refunds and invoices. Assists with FERC Formula reporting, budget/forecasting, variance explanations, data requests, and monthly, quarterly and year-end accruals.

• Identifies and escalates issues to management for immediate resolution, may include billing, operational, and contractual issues. Drives continuous improvement, including assisting with identifying and implementing processes, policies, and procedures.

• A material job duty of all positions within the Company is ensuring the protection of all its physical, financial and cybersecurity assets, and properly accessing and managing private customer data, proprietary information, confidential medical records, and other types of highly sensitive information and data with the highest standards of conduct and integrity.

Minimum Qualifications

• Three or more years of experience in contract management or contract compliance, in accordance with regulatory rules and standards.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Finance, Accounting, Legal Studies, Public Administration, Information Systems, or a related field.

• Experience working in a utility, energy, regulated industry, government, or customer service environment.

• Experience working with databases, large datasets, and data analysis tools to identify trends, perform root-cause analysis, and develop actionable insights.

• Experience creating reports, dashboards, data visualizations, and management presentations that support operational, financial, and contractual decision-making.

• Experience using automation and workflow tools to improve efficiency and streamline business processes, including Microsoft Power Apps, Power Automate, or similar low-code/no-code platforms.

• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Excel, including data analysis, pivot tables, and reporting capabilities.

Additional Information

• This position's work mode is hybrid. The employee will report to an SCE facility for a set number of days with the option to work remotely on the remaining days.  Unless otherwise noted, employees are required to work and reside in the state of California.  Further details of this work mode will be discussed at the interview stage. The work mode can be changed based on business needs.

• Visit our Candidate Resource (https://www.edisoncareers.com/page/show/candidate-resources) page to get meaningful information related to benefits, perks, resources, testing information, hiring process, and more!

• Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

• The primary work location for this position is Pomona, CA.

• Relocation does not apply to this position.

About Southern California Edison

The people at SCE don't just keep the lights on. Our mission is so much bigger. We're fueling the kind of innovation that's changing an entire industry, and quite possibly the planet. Join us and create a future with cleaner energy, while providing our customers with the safety and reliability they demand. At SCE, you'll have a chance to grow personally and professionally, making a real impact in Southern California and around the world.

Southern California Edison is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status.

We are committed to ensuring that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodations at [email protected] or (626) 302-3456 and select option 2.