Analyst Compliance and Dispute Resolution

Overview

Date: January 15, 2025

Location: Oakville – On-site

Requisition : 20527

Status: Regular

Business Unit: Market Assessment & Compliance

Grade/Band: MP2

Annual Pay Range: For standard 35-hour work week

The successful candidate will be placed at the appropriate step within the salary grade/band, based on relevant years of experience and other applicable considerations.

The IESO is committed to ensuring Ontario’s electricity system meets the province’s needs today and into the future. We are charged with purpose, delivering reliable, affordable, and sustainable electricity for homes, businesses, and communities across the province. We are energized to grow, embracing opportunities to shape the future of a dynamic and evolving energy sector while advancing our careers. We are powered by teamwork, supported by diverse and passionate colleagues who foster respect, celebrate successes, and thrive on shared achievements.

At the IESO, it’s not just what we do—it’s who we are!

Who We Are
Our central role includes managing the provincial power grid in real-time, overseeing and evolving Ontario’s electricity market, engaging with government, municipalities and Indigenous communities, and planning for Ontario’s future electricity needs. Our employees play a key role in driving grid innovation, protecting the system from threats, advancing the province’s energy conservation programs, and forecasting and procuring the electricity resources we’ll need in the decades to come.

This role is part of the Market Assessment and Compliance Division. This is a union job.

The IESO will be hiring up to 4 staff into this role to become part of the teams working in the following areas of its Market Assessment and Compliance Division (MACD):

• Monitoring and Data Analysis: monitoring activities and behaviours in the Ontario electricity system for preliminary detection of events of interest that might lead to non-compliance investigations, enforcement activity and/or public assessments from the Market Surveillance Panel. This may include assessing the efficiency and overall functioning of the IESO-administered markets, or specific market participant conduct to detect potential manipulation, abuse of market power, or anti-competitive behavior, and detecting emerging risks such as reliability concerns or design improvements to the IESO-administered markets.
• Reliability Standards Auditing: accountable for monitoring and auditing compliance with reliability standards established by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), the Northeast Power Coordinating Council (NPCC) and the IESO. This may include audit planning and execution and supporting a culture of proactive compliance among market participants.
• Compliance and Enforcement: assesses matters of potential non-compliance with market rules and reliability standards, conducts formal investigations, generates case recommendations, and fosters compliance through a variety of enforcement actions, payment recovery, breach prevention and rule education activities.

This Role Is Great For Someone Who Has

• Data and Analytical skills - perform data analysis and determine which data is required, understand how/where to find and retrieve the data
• Strong oral and written communications skills - be able to clearly and concisely communicate requirements, updates and outcomes
• Critical Thinking - to contribute to developing a concept and apply critical thinking to determine what the potential issue is and what data/evidence/approach is required to prove or disprove the concept
• Experience related to the electrical industry, power system operations/planning, regulatory and/or enforcement activities or audits

This position is part of a Promotion-in-Place Plan effective. Those that do not meet all the qualifications will be considered as a Assistant Analyst Compliance and Dispute Resolution.

In this role, you’ll make a meaningful impact by contributing to the IESO team and supporting the electricity needs of the province through:

• Maintain a current knowledge of assessment and compliance activities relating to market rules, market participant activities, and IESO…