Utility Bill Audit and Optimization Lead

TEOCO

Fairfax

JOB DETAILS
LOCATION
Fairfax
POSTED
30+ days ago

TEOCO's Audit team is seeking a smart, self-motivated, and collaborative candidate. This is a great opportunity to gain or build upon experience in consulting, developing a foundation of utility invoice knowledge and learning software tools.

Responsibilities:

Candidate will lead a small team of individuals that would complete the following:

  • Auditing and optimization of rates (contracts/tariffs) in deregulated and regulated markets; detailed analysis of usage sensitive charges (electric, gas) to pinpoint incorrect rates or opportunities to decrease cost in the future

  • Identify incorrect combinations of charges billed based on client profile; leverage inventory and source systems to identify opportunities for data quality improvement,

  • Disputes of charges inaccurately billed, and/or disconnection of services no longer in use - this may involve work with field representatives of the client.

  • Evaluate the status of charges associated with sites in "temporary" status.

  • Investigate any flat-rated charges associated with landlord sites and look for consolidation opportunities where clients have more than one business entity at the same site; and evaluate the application of taxes and surcharges to client accounts.

  • Identified issues will be logged into a database of record for vendor action and/or client action and approval.

  • Team will be responsible for ensuring approved issues are worked to closure, any associated benefit to the client is captured, and, if applicable, amounts invoiced to client.

  • Lead will be expected to work with internal programming and system teams to automate processes as much as possible

Required:

  • Bachelor's Degree, preferably in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Math or Statistics.

  • Solid understanding of utility costs structures and regulations (electric, gas, water).

  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

  • Solid organizational skills

  • Superior software PC skills in MS Office Suite

Desirable:

  • 5+ years of experience working in utility audit and optimization environment.

  • Prior exposure to Alteryx, Python, and/or R.

  • Prior experience with software querying tools.

About the Company

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TEOCO

TEOCO is the leading provider of Engineering, Assurance and Analytics solutions to communication service providers (CSPs) worldwide. Our solutions provide CSPs with unique insights into business, customer, network and device metrics by harnessing big data analytics. We are a trusted partner to the world’s leading CSPs who rely on our mission-critical solutions.

TEOCO’s product and solutions portfolio includes:

  • Business Analytics - Provides a granular view of network and business transactions, enabling CSPs to increase revenues, expand margins and maximize profitability. TEOCO touches all aspects of CSP business operations, and provides insights into profitability, margins, roaming, costs, traffic, usage, subscribers, routes and partners.
  • RAN Solutions - Enables CSPs to efficiently and accurately plan, optimize and manage their heterogeneous macro and small cell radio networks and backhaul. TEOCO’s products and solutions are multi-technology and multi-vendor, delivering best-in-class planning, geo-location algorithms and SON capabilities to improve operational efficiencies and reduce total cost of ownership.
  • Service Assurance - Delivers CSPs an automated, proactive and unified approach to service, customer network experience, performance and fault management. Our solutions model and measure network and non-network related data from various perspectives to quickly identify and resolve service and network faults and significantly improve service quality and availability, while reducing operating expenses.
  • Device and IoT - Provides device manufacturers with lab and field testing services to ensure mobile and IoT devices meet minimum performance requirements. For network operators, device certification is essential to ensuring subscriber satisfaction. TEOCO operates a state-of-the-art lab to assist manufacturers in the increasingly complex and time-consuming task of device certification.
Since 1995, TEOCO has helped over 300 of the largest service providers around the world to manage and evolve their businesses efficiently and profitably, while enhancing the customer experience. TEOCO is widely recognized for its commitment to principled entrepreneurship, business ethics and employee ownership with a particular emphasis on its core values of alignment with employees, clients and community.
COMPANY SIZE
1,000 to 1,499 employees
INDUSTRY
Telecommunications Services
FOUNDED
1995
WEBSITE
http://www.teoco.com/