Supporting Utility Partnerships and Innovation department within the Engineering, Planning and Strategy organization

Design and manage program design to provide backup power options and resources that support customers who are most vulnerable to power outages. Coach and mentor teammates on financial acumen.

Customer Energy Solutions Business Operations

• Provided capital budgeting and analytical support to Sephora’s distribution centers, IT department, Sephora.com, and over 300 retail stores in the U.S. and Canada.• Partnered with key stakeholders to move projects through the Capital Expenditure Requests (CERs) process. Reviewed documentation, performed ROI analysis, and ensured adequate budget funding before submitting to senior leadership and parent company, LVMH, for approval.• Analyze real estate deal economics to develop recommendations on new stores, relocations, and expansions, and present key findings to Finance senior leadership at monthly meetings.• Prepared internal financial reports for LVMH and Sephora Global, including capital annual budget, biannual forecasts and quarterly actuals.• Implemented enhanced CER process in 2013, which included simplifying forms, creating a centralized mailbox for CER submissions, and reducing the amount of approvers needed for smaller dollar thresholds. • Increased process efficiency will reduce cycle time from 21 to 7 days for CERs under $250K.

• Manage assets of all employee benefit plan and nuclear decommissioning trusts in accordance with corporate investment policies.• Provide decision support for the company’s Employee Benefit Committee (EBC) and Nuclear Facilities Decommissioning Master Trust Committee (NFDMTC), which include the CFO and other senior executives.• Prepare quarterly employee benefit plan and nuclear decommission trust reports outlining plan funded status, asset allocation, and investment performance.• Develop recommendations to rebalance Nuclear Decommissioning Trusts assets and coordinate implementation with Bank of New York Mellon, the plan trustee.• Facilitate monthly reimbursement of Humboldt Bay Power Plant decommissioning activities with Bank of New York Mellon.• Perform quarterly testing of Banking and Money Management procedures as part of Sarbanes-Oxley control assessment.• Prepare monthly market summary for the Board of Directors’ Financial and Business Highlights report.• Research industry firms and prepare “Back Pocket” summaries of key news items for CFO’s use in Finance Committee meetings.• Investigate status of key regulatory cases for disclosure in quarterly earnings release tables.

• Forecasted and analyzed enterprise operating and financing expenses, including Franchise Fees, Allowance for Uncollectible Accounts, Worker’s Compensation Claims, Insurance and Bank Fees.• Presented recorded and forecasted results for assigned areas to the Finance Department leadership team at monthly forecast meetings.• Compiled comprehensive monthly ECS/EPS reporting package for CFO and other key officers. Coordinated production schedule with all information providers and perform quality control assessment.• Build relationships with key business partners in various lines of businesses. Participated in planning sessions to determine forecast assumptions and identify and evaluate business risks and opportunities.• Managed multiple process improvement initiatives resulting in enhanced documentation and improved accountability over miscellaneous income statement areas including business taxes, unclaimed meters, low income housing investments and miscellaneous customer account adjustments.

• Responsible for the production, filing and distribution of the 2011 General Rate Case NOI and Application, a case requesting a revenue requirement increase of approximately $1.0 billion.• Communicated case timelines and provided support to the GRC Case Team, including case manager, attorneys, subject matter experts, and over 100 witnesses and witness assistants.• Managed a quality control and production process that delivered responses to over 7,500 data requests.• Acted as single point of contact for third party interveners regarding discovery inquiries and case status.• Developed and delivered presentation on fundamentals of the GRC.

• Performed monthly closing of U.S. and Europe books in Oracle Financials.• Conducted project and revenue accounting through billings and journal entries.• Researched and reconciled monthly balance sheet activities.• Monitored daily bank transactions while controlling and forecasting cash.• Managed A/R accounts, including preparing invoices and collecting delinquent A/R accounts.• Prepared monthly sales tax filings for states with resale certificates.

Processed purchase requisitions, acted as a liaison for accounting and purchasing department, received and inputted high volume invoices into Oracle A/P, reconciled project accounting codes, assisted with the Marketing department by compiling, preparing marketing collateral and managing database within salesforce.com, conducted various administrative tasks.