Sr. Regulatory Analyst – 107154-7893

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https://illinoisjoblink.illinois.gov/jobs/12269995 Requisition ID:
107154

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People are the heart of our business. As an American Water employee, you
will be offered a competitive salary and health benefits package, along
with opportunities to develop, grow, and evolve your career. Our
benefits packages focus on key areas such as health & wellness,
emotional & well-being, and savings for current & future goals.

We are Beautifully Different. We strongly believe having diversity
across our company makes us more successful and helps us provide
essential services to our customers. We are stronger because we embrace
different ideas, viewpoints, experiences, and backgrounds. American
Water is the best choice for your next role! Click here for more
information on our inclusion, diversity, and equity journey.

About American Water

American Water (NYSE: AWK) is the largest regulated water and wastewater
utility company in the United States. With a history dating back to
1886, We Keep Life Flowing by providing safe, clean, reliable and
affordable drinking water and wastewater services to more than 14
million people across 14 regulated jurisdictions and 18 military
installations. American Waters 6,500 talented professionals leverage
their significant expertise and the companys national size and scale
to achieve excellent outcomes for the benefit of customers, employees,
investors and other stakeholders.

As one of the fastest growing utilities in the U.S., American Water
expects to invest $30 to $34 billion in infrastructure repairs and
replacement, system resiliency and regulated acquisitions over the next
10 years. The company has a long-standing history of executing its core
operations, aligned with sustainable best practices, through its
commitments to safety, affordability, customer service, protecting the
environment, an inclusive workforce and strengthening communities.

American Water has been recognized on the 2023 Bloomberg Gender-Equality
Index for the fifth consecutive year, ranked 18th on Barrons 100 Most
Sustainable U.S. Companies 2023 List, earned the U.S. Department of
Homeland Security SAFETY Act designation and U.S. Environmental
Protection Agencys WaterSense Excellence Award, among additional
state, local and national recognitions.

For more information, visit amwater.com and join American Water on
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Primary Role

Support the end-to-end preparation and development of the financial
analysis and the compliance reporting requirements to support
state/operational business partners in all rate and regulatory matters.
Support the completion of exhibits, work papers, interrogatories, and
writing testimony to sponsor in a timely and accurate fashion. Assists
with technical solutions and analysis on national issues. Prepare
regulatory reports, financial information and operational data necessary
for filing complete and timely rate applications and reports to state
regulatory commissions.

Key Accountabilities

Assist in the end-to-end preparation and implementation of acquisition
proceedings, including rate calculations, rate impact analysis,
escalation of potential issues as necessary.

Serve as first level resource for various department or functional
issues which may be related to customer service, billing, tariff
administration, operational excellence regulatory compliance, etc.
Answer routine rate and regulatory inquiries and assist in recognizing
and troubleshooting larger problems.

Lead tariff update efforts related to regulatory filings, ensuring
regular maintenance and accuracy of rate related tariff pages.

Communicate updated tariffs to the appropriate functional areas (i.e.,
tariff administration, CSO, business development, communications,
operations, etc.) and verify correct rates are input into the customer
billing system.

Prepare analysis that supports operational/state business partners in
the filing of base rate cases and alternative regulatory mechanisms
(DSIC, RAC, trackers, etc.). Ensure the financial support is complete,
accurate and timely prepared meeting all filing deadlines.

Support the end-to-end preparation and development of the pro forma
adjustments that are relied upon to support base rate case requests and
alternative regulatory mechanisms.

Support the accurate preparation of rate case support schedules,
testimony and exhibits for increasingly more complex issues. Prepares
written testimony (written and oral) and sponsors more complex
adjustments in rate filings.

Assists with technical solutions and analysis on national issues.

Prepares responses to interrogatories for schedules and exhibits they
own.

Prepares financial support that is relied upon by Company consultants in
areas such as: cost of service studies, return on equity, capital
structure, depreciation studies, service company costs, Lead/Lag
studies, etc.

Prepares routine regulatory compliance filings, responses to ad hoc
requests from regulators, compliance requirements from public utilit