Hybrid Senior Strategy and Risk Consultant – Lead

at NiSource

• Job title: Senior Strategy and Risk Consultant – Lead
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $96,600 - $144,900 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: VBA
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Columbus, United States

About the role

• Strategy and Risk Consultant leading enterprise-wide savings validation and strategic decision-making for NiSource. Collaborating across functions to deliver insights and solutions under uncertainty.

Responsibilities

• Performs industry, competitor, and customer analyses; monitors and evaluates the impact of trends; identifies key opportunities and barriers; gathers and synthesizes quantitative and qualitative data to inform strategic decisions.
• Tracks, validates, and reports on initiative performance and provides insights into risks/upsides.
• Builds and maintains Excel‑based models to analyze data, evaluate financial and strategic tradeoffs, and support decision‑making under uncertainty.
• Leverages enterprise risk information to research and assess primary and secondary risk impacts.
• Utilizes risk management tools such as risk registers, dashboards, tracking metrics, and mitigation monitoring to support enterprise risk integration.
• Identifies and frames issues, problems, and opportunities; compares and integrates data from multiple sources; draws sound conclusions; develops practical solutions; and takes timely, proactive action aligned with available facts, constraints, and potential consequences.
• Assists in the development, refinement, and updating of materials for presentation to executive audiences.
• Compiles, organizes, and formats data to support internal and external reporting, including both quantitative and qualitative analysis.
• Researches reporting considerations, supports adoption of new reporting requirements, develops business cases, and builds supporting financial models.
• Leads assigned project tasks under the direction of Strategy leadership team, proactively managing deliverables, timelines, and resource coordination while escalating risks and issues as appropriate.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree from an accredited college/university in Business, Finance, Accounting, Economics, Engineering, Actuarial Science, Mathematics, Statistics or related discipline (or equivalent experience).
• Experience using Excel to analyze data.
• Experience applying economic, statistic, and econometric concepts/methods.
• Demonstrated critical thinking and analytical skills.
• Demonstrated planning, organizational, and time management skills.
• Ability to work in a fast paced environment and meet deadlines.
• Advanced skillset in Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, and PowerPoint), experience with VBA and building business tools.
• Advanced quantitative analysis and critical thinking skills.
• Demonstrated experience leading people, projects, or initiatives.
• Demonstrated time management skills, including the ability to prioritize and advance multiple work streams concurrently.
• Self-starter who takes action to identify, analyze and improve existing processes within organization.
• Six Sigma background a plus.
• Strong collaboration and communications skills, ability to engage with others.
• Occasional travel (5-10%) might be required.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Retirement plans
• Paid time off
• Flexible work arrangements
• Professional development