Sr Business Functional Consultant, Transformation (Customer Data Sr. Analyst)

Xcel Energy (NASDAQ: XEL) is a leading energy provider and Fortune 500 company, dedicated to serving millions of electricity and natural gas customers across eight states: Minnesota, Colorado, Wisconsin, Michigan, North Dakota, South Dakota, New Mexico and Texas. We make energy work better for our customers, helping them thrive every day. That means always raising the bar - delivering better service and providing more reliable, resilient, and sustainable energy. Xcel Energy is a place where you’ll have opportunities to grow, expand your skills, and help lead the clean energy transition. We offer meaningful rewards, recognition, and support to help you build your career and make an impact - both on the job and beyond. Most importantly, it means you’ll be joining a company that knows employees are the driving force behind its success and is committed to helping you be your best.Xcel Energy supports a hybrid work model to enable collaboration and flexibility. Many roles are expected to work onsite three days per week (Tuesday–Thursday); however, work location expectations vary based on role, team, and business needs.Position Summary:The Sr Business Functional Consultant, Transformation (Customer Data Sr. Analyst) produces the analysis that underpins report rationalization, metric definition and readiness decisions for the Customer Core (CIS) transformation. Operating with independence, the role validates rebuilt reports and data products against governed definitions, analyzes legacy report usage, and translates business questions into KPIs and insights.Drawing on existing relationships with Customer business partners, the role assesses upstream and downstream impacts of metric and data changes and drives readiness activities that promote sustainable adoption of trusted customer data. The role works closely with the Customer Data Product Owner on the business and IT areas and continues after go-live as the customer domain’s analytics capability matures towards a more data product centric environment that enables self-service.Essential Responsibilities:Serve as a trusted advisor for Customer business teams by providing advanced analysis of customer, billing, finance and usage data across many business processes.Lead analysis supporting report rationalization, covering usage, consumers and business criticality of legacy customer reports, to inform disposition decisions by the Customer Data Product Owner.Define and validate KPIs and metric logic with business owners, documenting definitions for governance approval.Validate rebuilt reports and data products against legacy outputs and governed definitions before business acceptance; identify, explain and resolve variances.Co-Lead business functional testing of reports during integrated test cycles and mock conversions and partner with the training team on report user guidance.Collaborate across Customer business areas to answer ad hoc analytical questions and ensure consistent use of customer metrics.Champion continuous improvement by routing data quality issues found in analysis to the Data Quality Lead and data stewards.Define functional performance metrics, reporting needs and post-implementation success criteria for customer data products.Minimum Requirements:Bachelor’s degree in business or related field; or equivalent combination of training and relevant experience.Strong understanding of utility processes and performance drivers.Excellent communication, critical thinking and problem-solving skills.5+ years in operations, business process improvement or service deliveryPreferred Requirements:Utility customer, billing, usage or call center data experience.Experience validating reports or data during a system conversion.Exposure to SAP S/4HANA or SAP Analytics Cloud.Oracle SQL ExperienceExperience documenting business glossary terms or metric definitions.Existing working relationships with Customer Care, Billing or Credit & Collections teams at Xcel.Our culture is grounded in shared values and employee commitments that guide how we work, support one another, and grow together.Our ValuesConnected, Committed, Trustworthy, SafeOur Employee CommitmentsWork that makes a differenceA team you can count ofOpportunities to growRewards that help you thriveXcel Energy provides job applicants reasonable accommodations for disabilities throughout the application process. If you are in need of an accommodation to complete the application process, now or at any time in the future, please complete the Applicant Accommodation Request Form. Non-BargainingThe anticipated starting base pay for this position is: $84,900.00 to $120,567.00 per yearThis position is eligible for the following benefits: Annual Incentive Program, Medical/Pharmacy Plan, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account, Health Care Flexible Spending Account, Health Savings Account (HSA) (if enrolled in eligible health plan), Limited-Purpose FSA (if enrolled in eligible health plan and HSA), Transportation Reimbursement Account, Short-term disability (STD), Long-term disability (LTD), Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Fitness Center Reimbursement (if enrolled in eligible health plan), Tuition reimbursement, Transit programs, Employee recognition program, Pension, 401(k) plan, Paid time off (PTO), Holidays, Volunteer Paid Time Off (VPTO), Parental LeaveBenefit plans are subject to change and Xcel Energy has the right to end, suspend, or amend any of its plans, at any time, in whole or in part.In any materials you submit, you may redact or remove age-identifying information including but not limited to dates of school attendance and graduation. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information.Deadline to Apply: 11/03/26EEO is the Law (PDF) | Equal Opportunity Statement (PDF) | Employee Rights (PDF)All Xcel Energy employees and contractors share responsibility for protecting the company's information and systems by adhering to cybersecurity policies, standards, and best practices, recognizing that cybersecurity is everyone's responsibility.Accessibility StatementXcel Energy endeavors to make and accessible to any and all users. If you are in need of an accommodation to complete the application process, now or at any time in the future, please complete the Applicant Accommodation Request Form. For any other application related questions, including application follow-ups or technical issues, please use our Recruiting Assistance, Electra, for assistance. Electra can be found in the lower right-hand corner of our Xcel Energy Careers site.SummaryLocation: Minneapolis, MN, 55401; Eau Claire, WI, 54702; Denver, CO, 80205; Amarillo, TX, 79101Type: Full time