Asset Management Associate; Solar + BESS

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The Asset Management Associate, Regulatory Compliance supports the management and optimization of a high-profile portfolio of utility-scale photovoltaic (PV) and battery energy storage systems (BESS) in California, with primary responsibility for regulatory and market compliance execution across the portfolio. This role ensures adherence to applicable reliability, market participation, interconnection, and reporting obligations—particularly those stemming from NERC and FERC, and (ideally) Western-region and California frameworks, including WECC, CAISO, and CPUC.

In addition to compliance ownership, the Associate supports core asset management functions (performance monitoring, reporting, contract administration, and financial/settlement analysis) and helps build scalable processes and tooling that reduce risk and strengthen operational discipline.

• Regulatory Compliance Execution & Program Ownership (Primary Focus; ~50–60%)
  • Program ownership:
    Own day-to-day execution of the portfolio regulatory compliance program for CIM’s PV/BESS assets, including obligation tracking, evidence collection, internal coordination, and escalation of risks/issues to senior leadership and Legal.
  • Compliance management system:
    Develop, maintain, and continuously improve a compliance tracking platform (calendar, obligation register, control owners, due dates, audit trail, evidence repository) covering required filings, attestations, certifications, notices, studies, and periodic reporting.
  • Process improvement:
    Identify recurring compliance friction points and implement process or tooling improvements (templates, checklists, SOPs, dashboards) to reduce cycle time and improve audit readiness.
  • Regulatory monitoring & interpretation:
    Monitor evolving requirements, guidance, and enforcement trends from NERC/FERC and applicable regional/state bodies; summarize changes, assess impacts, and translate requirements into actionable controls, procedures, and timelines.
  • Audit readiness:
    Coordinate internal readiness reviews and documentation QA; prepare audit-ready evidence packages and support responses to regulatory/market operator inquiries, spot checks, and audits.
  • Market & interconnection obligations:
    Track and support compliance with market participation rules, resource adequacy (as applicable), telemetry/metering requirements, outage reporting, and interconnection agreements; coordinate with O&M, SCADA/controls, engineering, and revenue/settlements teams to close gaps.
  • Cross-functional controls:
    Partner with Legal, Development, and Investments, to integrate compliance into operating workflows (e.g., change management, document control, required reporting accuracy, vendor deliverables) and mitigate non-compliance risk.
• Asset Management Support (Secondary; ~40–50%)
  • Performance monitoring & analytics:
    Monitor asset KPIs (production, availability, curtailment, forced outages, BESS performance, loss analysis, performance optimization, etc.); flag anomalies; support root-cause analyses and corrective action tracking.
  • Revenue & settlements support:
    Assist in reviewing PPA and market settlement data; validate meter data and invoice support; analyze variances to budget/forecast and document drivers.
  • Contract administration:
    Manage contract compliance with contractors, O&M providers, OEMs, offtakers, and other vendors; track notices, claims, warranties, deliverables, and reporting obligations.
  • Reporting:
    Prepare…