Utility Regulatory Affairs Senior Advisor

Job Description

Become a Utility Regulatory Affairs Senior Advisor at Southern California Edison (SCE) and help meet our goals of interconnecting clean energy resources to SCE's grid. In this job, you'll be developing and advocating the Company's positions associated with wholesale generation and energy storage interconnections to SCE's distribution system, including managing the development of revisions to SCE's wholesale distribution access tariff. You will engage with regulators and stakeholders, building relationships with agency leadership, lead cross-functional teams, including providing agency expertise, strategic direction and policy recommendations to executive management and fellow team members. As a Utility Regulatory Affairs Senior Advisor, your work will help power our planet, reduce carbon emissions and create cleaner air for everyone. Are you ready to take on the challenge to help us build the future?

Responsibilities

• Develops business requirements, performs gap analysis, and identifies strategies for controls and risk mitigation.
• Facilitates training and ensuring the effective remediation of potential non-compliant situations.
• Supports legislative strategy and legislative language development to advance or defend company positions.
• Conducts audit reviews to ensure that the company stays compliant with the policies and standards enforced by relevant agencies.
• Identifies significant regulatory challenges and commercial opportunities, for the current and future regulatory environments.
• Advises and counsels on new consumer products and product structures and compliance with changing regulatory rules and varying political environment.
• Oversees and implements the organization's compliance reporting activities.
• Leads regulatory report submission for the company.
• Provides guidance to cross-functional organizations on considering preventative measures on corrective action responses.
• A material job duty of all positions within the Company is ensuring the protection of all its physical, financial and cybersecurity assets, and properly accessing and managing private customer data, proprietary information, confidential medical records, and other types of highly sensitive information and data with the highest standards of conduct and integrity.

Minimum Qualifications

• Ten or more years of experience with regulatory filings/proceedings and compliance standards.

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to independently management multiple projects and build positive working relationships, even under challenging circumstances (time constraints, staffing limitations)
• Expertise with SCE's Wholesale Distribution Access Tariff (WDAT)
• Strong electric utility experience
• Demonstrated experience representing a company or agency in a professional manner under all circumstances, consistent with SCE values
• Communicate with positive impact across a broad audience, including policy makers, agency staff, leaders, lawyers, and other collaborators
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in engineering, business, regulatory policy, communication, or other related discipline (or law degree)
• Outstanding organizational and project management skills including presenting to senior management
• Practical experience working with FERC rulemaking
• Excellent communication skills (writing and verbal)
• Experience with the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to complete regulatory assignments in a more efficient manner

Additional Information

• This position's work mode is hybrid. The employee will report to an SCE facility for a set number of days with the option to work remotely on the remaining days. Unless otherwise noted, employees are required to work and reside in the state of California. Further details of this work mode will be discussed at the interview stage. The work mode can be changed based on business needs.
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• Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
• Position will require up to 25% traveling and being out in the field throughout the SCE service territory.
• Relocation may apply to this position.