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SUMMARY OF JOB RESPONSIBILITIES AND REQUIREMENTS

JOB TITLE: Financial and Data Analyst – Regulatory Compliance

REQUISITION ID: REG0019

DEPARTMENT: Regulatory Affairs - Kansas City Headquarters or Topeka General Office

LOCATION: Kansas City, MO

Topeka, KS

PAY RANGE: Regulatory Analyst I: $51,000 - $63,700

Regulatory Analyst II: $62,300 - $77,900

Sr Regulatory Analyst: $79,100 - $105,400

Lead Regulatory Analyst: $93,100 - $124,100

Scheduled Work Hours: Monday - Friday, 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. (Other hours as required)

Our team is currently looking for a cerebral Analyst who loves processing, transforming, and organizing big data into meaningful information to identify trends, outliers, and impacts to make business recommendations and process improvement. This individual will focus on assembling revenues from customer billing, usage, and cost data, understanding utility tariffs and rates to establish rate structures and set pricing for electric usage for Regulatory compliance.

If you are an individual who enjoys working in a high performing environment and thrives on adding value, this is the team for you! Our Regulatory department has offices in Topeka and Kansas City, and we offer a hybrid work schedule where team members work from home Monday and Friday.

Summary of Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

• Responsible for contributing or leading multiple regulatory projects through all phases in a timely, cost effective and efficient manner through collaboration with various departments within Evergy. Projects assigned vary greatly in size and complexity.

• Required to research and keep abreast of regulatory trends and maintain a working knowledge of the electric utility industry. Identifies and maintains a broad knowledge of the issues of importance to the Company; assimilate and evaluate information from a variety of sources and recommend strategy, solutions, or actions based on the analysis of the information and knowledge of technical and business principles and practices.

• Provide guidance to Company personnel concerning regulatory matters.

• Support Evergy regulatory initiatives through information gathering and analysis, leading to appropriate recommendations.

• Makes appropriate recommendations for changes/additions/deletions to existing rates, rules, and regulations or other regulatory matters.

• Develop internal and external working relationships to collaborate and meet Company goals and objectives.

• Ensures timely processing of information to meet regulatory requirements and minimize any negative impact on the Company; identifies priority issues; influences behavior to protect the best interests of Company’s customers and stakeholders and enhances corporate image.

Qualifications

Education and Experience Requirements:

Requires a degree at least as advanced as a Bachelor's degree in a business-related field, engineering, accounting, economics, quantitative analysis, or science. Advanced degree preferred. Professional certification (i.e. CPA, PE, etc.) is preferred.

Regulatory Analyst II:

• A minimum of 2 years of experience in the regulated utility industry is preferred.

Regulatory Analyst Senior:

• A minimum of 4 years of experience in the regulated utility industry is preferred.

• Knowledge of electric utility systems, accounting statements and financial concepts as used in a regulated electric utility environment is preferred.

Regulatory Analyst Lead:

• A minimum of 6 years of experience in the regulated utility industry is preferred.

• Knowledge of electric utility systems, accounting statements and financial concepts as used in a regulated electric utility environment is preferred.

Skills, Knowledge, and Abilities Required:

• Must be adaptable and have solid problem solving skills and be capable of researching issues using multiple sources of data and appropriate technical tools available; analyzing and synthesizing data gathered; transforming data gathered into information that can be used to facilitate decision making; drawing appropriate conclusions based on information and; making sound recommendations that consider the proper balance among the various interests of internal operations, customers, regulators, shareholders, and competitors that may be impacted by the recommendation.

• Must possess good written and verbal communications skills, capable of: listening to gather and synthesize information; speaking in a clear and concise manner to convey information often technical in nature; preparing written material that provides study results, reports, memos, testimony and documentation of subjects often technical in nature.

• Areas of proficiency include some or all of the following:

o Utilization of technology and Data Analytics software and concepts to handle big data and perform advanced analysis

o Regulated utility operation, construction, or maintenance

o Retail cost of service, rate design, and state (KS & MO) regulation

o Rates administration including rules & regulations

o Utility billing and Commission generated customer complaint resolution

o Development, implementation, or maintenance of regulatory systems

o Possesses a high degree of work initiative and ability to manage multiple projects.

o Must be proficient in the use of Microsoft Office applications and demonstrate the ability to learn other software products as necessary.

Licenses, Certifications, Bonding, and/or Testing Required: None

Working Conditions: Normal office working conditions.

Evergy has a clear mission – To empower a better future. Evergy chooses to live this mission by valuing People First. We know to accomplish becoming the most innovative and reliable energy company, we need a team with a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills. So, our goal is to be a diverse workforce that is representative of the communities we serve. We are committed to celebrating diversity and building a team where everyone – regardless of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status – has a voice and can bring their best every day. We know that the more diverse and inclusive we are, the better we will be. Evergy is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer.

Disclaimer: The above information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.

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Job Field: Regulatory

Req ID: REG0019