Senior Manager, Compliance & Risk

Role and Responsibilities

• Supervise a group of 2 or more individuals or managers within the Compliance & Risk group, setting direction and driving across the Compliance Operations team to meet goals.
• Manage compliance activities for NERC registered projects.
• Track and complete regulatory filings for NERC registered projects.
• Work with NERC Implementation team during construction phase of projects to complete project registration with applicable entities.
• Lead meetings with various stakeholders, including clients, EPC contractors, engineering teams, and more.
• Manage workflow for Compliance Analyst and Compliance Project Team.
• Define team direction. Develop, resource and manage large scope and long-term projects, making resource, scope, and delivery tradeoffs as necessary. Review work products and progress to ensure success.
• Facilitate meetings with external stakeholders and cross-functional teams. Resolve issues within and across teams. Mentor team and lower-level managers on job specific roles, communication, and collaboration.
• Establish and assure adherence to budgets, schedules, work plans, and performance requirements. Develop compensation planning, career coaching, training, and administer company policies for the team.
• Working with other senior managers, drive cross-functional team improvement initiatives to optimize the business, and propose updates to division policies. Support implementation of strategic directions within the team.
• Providing support for various business development leads to help company achieve goals.
• Ability to support regulatory audits and provide guidance to Compliance & Risk team and client.

• 2-4 years management experience
• Minimum 3 years renewable energy industry experience in asset management, business management, contract management, compliance, or operations roles
• 4+ years work experience in NERC Compliance
• Proven documentation, presentation, and communication skills with working teams and senior level management, CEOs, boards of directors
• University Degree (or equivalent) with 6+ years domain experience, or
• Masters/Graduate and 4+ years domain experience
• Degree in business, management, or relevant field preferred

• 2-4 years management experience
• 6+ years domain experience

• 5+ years actively managing/supporting a Generator Owner compliance program
• Working knowledge of photovoltaic system design, wind or battery storage operations and management
• Regulatory audit experience
• Second level management of a large team
• Successful delivery of large cross functional projects
• Process improvement experience with Lean Six Sigma Green or Black Belt

• Experience with regulatory compliance, NERC, FERC, or other reporting obligations for operating projects is a plus
• Experience with data analysis, reporting, and presentation a plus
• Ability to take ownership of tasks and pursue until completion
• Strong interpersonal & customer service skills
• Attention to detail and ability to deliver a quality work product
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Strong organizational skills with ability to track & execute large volumes of on-going compliance obligations
• Able to set direction and drive large cross functional team to success. Able to work as part of a larger team
• Proven success in personnel management, coaching & mentoring
• Strong project and people management skills - organizing work, planning, monitoring and making tradeoffs to ensure quality deliveries
• Able to liaise with clients and internal teams on significant issues that require high level management intervention in a professional manner
• Root cause analysis & process improvement. Big picture thinking that drives team to meet organizational goals and provides cross-functional improvements

• Passion to learn within a growth-stage company within the renewable energy space
• Excellent organizational and planning skills
• Clear and concise verbal and written communication skills with the ability to distill information and present it in an understandable manner appropriate for the audience
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Additional knowledge of…