Compliance & Risk Consultant, Expert

Requisition ID # 169327 

Job Category: Compliance / Risk / Quality Assurance 

Job Level: Individual Contributor

Business Unit: Electric Operations

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Dublin; Alameda; Alta; American Canyon; Angels Camp; Antioch; Auberry; Auburn; Avenal; Avila Beach; Bakersfield; Balch Camp; Bay Point; Bear Valley; Belden; Bellota; Belmont; Benicia; Berkeley; Brentwood; Brisbane; Buellton; Burney; Buttonwillow; Calistoga; Campbell; Canyon Dam; Canyondam; Capitola; Caruthers; Chico; Clearlake; Clovis; Coalinga; Colusa; Concord; Concord; Corcoran; Cottonwood; Cupertino; Daly City; Danville; Davis; Dinuba; Downieville; Emeryville; Eureka; Fairfield; Folsom; Fort Bragg; Fortuna; Fremont; French Camp; Fresno; Fresno; Fulton; Garberville; Geyserville; Gilroy; Goodyear; Grass Valley; Guerneville; Half Moon Bay; Hayward; Hinkley; Hollister; Holt; Houston; Huron; Jackson; Kerman; King City; Lakeport; Lemoore; Lincoln; Linden; Livermore; Lodi; Loomis; Los Banos; Lower Lake; Madera; Magalia; Manteca; Manton; Mariposa; Martell; Marysville; Maxwell; Menlo Park; Merced; Meridian; Millbrae; Milpitas; Modesto; Monterey; Montgomery Creek; Morgan Hill; Morro Bay; Moss Landing; Mountain View; Napa; Needles; Newark; Newman; Novato; Oakdale; Oakhurst; Oakland; Oakley; Olema; Orinda; Orland; Oroville; Palo Alto; Palo Cedro; Paradise; Parkwood; Paso Robles; Petaluma; Pioneer; Pismo Beach; Pittsburg; Placerville; Pleasant Hill; Point Arena; Potter Valley; Quincy; Rancho Cordova; Red Bluff; Redding; Richmond; Ridgecrest; Rio Vista; Rocklin; Roseville; Round Mountain; Sacramento; Salida; Salinas; San Bruno; San Carlos; San Francisco; San Francisco; San Jose; San Luis Obispo; San Mateo; San Rafael; San Ramon; San Ramon; Sanger; Santa Cruz; Santa Maria; Santa Nella; Santa Rosa; Selma; Shaver Lake; Sonoma; Sonora; South San Francisco; Springville; Stockton; Storrie; Taft; Tracy; Turlock; Twain; Ukiah; Vacaville; Vallejo; Walnut Creek; Wasco; Watsonville; West Sacramento; Wheatland; Whitmore; Willits; Willow Creek; Willows; Windsor; Winters; Woodland; Yuba City

Department Overview

Electric Operations ensures the delivery of clean, safe, reliable and affordable energy to nearly 16 million people in Northern and Central California. Electric Operations is responsible for every aspect of PG&E's electric distribution and transmission operations, including planning, engineering, maintenance and construction, asset management, business planning, restoration and emergency response.

This role will work within Electric Operations Quality Assurance to support the Maintenance and Construction Quality Assurance organization, which evaluates the outputs of Electric Operations processes to provide feedback on quality, controls, and opportunities for improvement.

Position Summary

The Compliance & Risk Consultant’s core function is to support/monitor the compliance and/or risk management framework & tools that enable the organization and employees to conduct business in compliance with applicable standards, laws & regulations, and/or to identify, manage, and mitigate operational risk.

The Compliance & Risk Consultant supports the development, implementation, and maintenance of the framework for compliance and/or risk management. May be assigned to support a specific department or area of the business. Scope may be limited to one regulatory agency or may include multiple agencies, laws, and regulations applicable to a specific department or area of the business. Supports revisions to the compliance and/or risk programs and tools as needed based on changes to applicable laws, regulations, and standards. For risk management, develops and maintains a risk register, coordinating with various risk owners to track operational & enterprise risks and the effectiveness of risk mitigation activities. Partners with Subject Matter Experts (SME), Requirement/Risk Owners, and business SMEs to develop controls, and metrics to hold the assigned owners accountable for compliance and/or risk management performance. Supports change management, training, and communication of compliance standards, processes & results and/or risk management standards and risk analyses & assessments. The Compliance & Risk Consultant may also act as a liaison with regulatory agencies and respond to data/reporting inquiries. 

This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and your assigned work location based on business need. The assigned work location will be within the PG&E Service Territory.

PG&E is providing the salary range that the company in good faith believes it might pay for this position at the time of the job posting. This compensation range is specific to the locality of the job.  The actual salary paid to an individual will be based on multiple factors, including, but not limited to, specific skills, education, licenses or certifications, experience, market value, geographic location, and internal equity.  Although we estimate the successful candidate hired into this role will be placed towards the middle or entry point of the range, the decision will be made on a case-by-case basis related to these factors.

Bay Minimum: $118,000
Bay Maximum: $188,000

&/OR

CA Minimum: $112,000
CA Maximum: $179,000

This job is also eligible to participate in PG&E’s discretionary incentive compensation programs. 

Job Responsibilities

• Provides expertise to leadership and cross-functional teams regarding development, implementation, and monitoring of controls and mitigation plans.
• Develops compelling data-driven business cases for or against specific courses of action and potential risk mitigation alternatives as appropriate.
• May lead company response to regulatory data requests, investigations, audits, and other inquiries.
• Regularly updates leadership on changes to requirements/standards, metrics, program effectiveness, and opportunities for improvement.
• Lead root cause analysis exercises.
• May participate in risk management forums at the enterprise level.
• May act as team lead but does not have any direct reports. 

Qualifications

Minimum:

• Bachelors Degree or equivalent experience
• Job-related experience, 7 years

Desired:

• Masters Degree or equivalent experience
• Experience in risk management, 4 years
• Experience in compliance, 4 years
• Experience as a journeyman Lineman, Electric Estimator, Service Planner or Engineer, 4 years
• CIA-Certified Internal Auditor certification
• CRM-Certified Risk Manager certification
• Demonstrates broad expertise and applies advanced knowledge to wide- ranging compliance and/or risk management issues.
• Expert level knowledge of assigned area of business including processes and procedures in Electric Operations at PG&E
• 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
• Advanced skills in MS Office including Excel,Word, PowerPoint, CoPilot, and PowerBI