Expert Compliance & Risk Consultant (NERC experience preferred) - Location Flexible
About The Position
The Market and Federal Compliance team is part of the Compliance Excellence department within Electric Engineering Compliance. Our vision is to create a compliance culture in Electric Engineering and Operations that supports and exceeds safety, reliability, customer, and regulator expectations. The Market and Federal Compliance organization provides functional area compliance oversight, support and monitoring for processes, procedures and controls intended to ensure compliance with the California Independent System Operator (CAISO), the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), and the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) regulatory requirements, standards, tariffs, and agreements. These compliance areas include: FERC Wholesale Distribution Tariff (WDT) FERC Transmission Owner Tariff FERC T-Line Licensing CAISO Open Access Transmission Tariff CAISO Transmission control Agreement and related CAISO Business Process Manuals and CAISO Maintenance Procedures CAISO Annual Maintenance Review NERC Operations and Planning standards NERC Critical Infrastructure Protection standards
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
- 7 years of relevant experience
Nice To Haves
- Certified Internal Auditor (CIA)
- Certified Risk Management Professional (RIMS-CRMP)
- Certified Compliance and Ethics Professional (CCEP)
- Leading Professional in Ethics and Compliance (LPEC)
- Experience with Transmission Operations
- Experience with Transmission Planning
- 4 years' experience managing compliance/risk programs or controls
- Broad expertise and knowledge to the regulatory space of utilities
- Advanced knowledge of and ability to apply internal control concepts and/or risk analysis & assessment
- Strong problem solving, project management, and change management skills
- Ability to manipulate data and draw conclusions/make recommendations
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to communicate complex data effectively to a variety of audiences including executives
- Ability to influence others in order to achieve understanding, acceptance, and commitment to act
- Highly flexible, self-directed, and able to adapt well to a rapidly changing environment
Responsibilities
- Partner with Electric Engineering, Planning, Electric Operations business units and Enterprise NERC Compliance teams to provide functional area support across a multitude of ongoing compliance activities.
- Provide compliance analysis of ongoing mitigation plans filed with external regulators.
- Provide compliance analysis of ongoing mitigation plans filed by Enterprise Compliance to external regional regulators.
- Partner with Electric Engineering business units on the development of mitigation plans.
- Assist with annual gap analysis.
- Support investigations into compliance issues with FERC.
- Develop compelling data-driven business cases for or against specific courses of action and potential risk mitigation alternatives as appropriate.
- Familiarize and analyze new or changing NERC requirements applicable to CAISO and FERC compliance activities.
- Provide strategic direction regarding areas of NERC compliance in common with CPUC, OEIS, and CAISO.
- Identify gaps between compliance requirements and guidance documentation.
- Identify opportunities for new internal controls.
- Help build additional internal controls.
- Provide inputs into FERC/NERC policy as it pertains to development of new and/or revised NERC Reliability Standards.
- Provide peripheral support during CAISO Annual Maintenance Review.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
