Requisition ID # 166173

Job Category: Compliance / Risk / Quality Assurance

Job Level: Individual Contributor

Business Unit: Gen Counsel, Ethics, Risk & Compliance

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland

Department Overview

The Compliance Strategy and Governance department in Ethics, Risk, and Compliance sets and manages the compliance management standards and framework for the company. This includes providing governance, oversight, and tools to enable PG&E departments and coworkers to conduct business in compliance with applicable laws and regulations and to effectively manage compliance risk. Functional responsibilities of the team related to enterprise-wide ethics and compliance management include strategic development, standards development, support for all Functional Areas, oversight and validation, enterprise-level IT tool ownership, and enterprise governance and reporting. The department also partners with the Ethics and Risk teams to promote a culture of compliance and ethics where employees are enabled and inspired to act with integrity, speak up to raise concerns and comply with all legal and regulatory requirements, and mitigate risk

Position Summary

The Expert Risk and Compliance Analyst role is focused on the development, execution, and support of enterprise-wide federal contract compliance management activities designed to increase program maturity and performance across PG&E. The role will be responsible for:

• Helping to provide assurance over the Federal Contract Compliance program, procedures and systems, including responsibilities related to effective management of federal grant and loan compliance
• Supporting business partners and Risk and Compliance expert to Functional Areas.
• Understanding the general business environment and associated risks and compliance requirements of federal contracting across the enterprise, including federal grants and loans.
• Identifying and assessing federal contract compliance requirements and operational risks, helping requirement owners develop controls and metrics and evaluate for effectiveness, evaluating control deficiencies, supporting the design of mitigating activities, and helping to facilitate and publish policies and standards, in line with compliance objectives and/or established risk management protocols.
• Supporting a governance structure that enables Functional Areas, departments and coworkers 1) to conduct business in compliance with applicable laws, regulations and policies related to federal contract compliance; and 2) identify, manage and mitigate federal contract compliance risks that can affect the business.
• Helping train and engage employees and leaders throughout the company in federal contract risk and compliance to ensure understanding of compliance requirements, risk management principles and other needed items to support organization-wide awareness and facilitate LOB behaviors related to risk and compliance.

• Major areas of responsibility typically include the following:
  
  • Compliance Support: Support, implement, facilitate and provide assurance over Federal Contract compliance program to meet compliance requirements, especially those related to federal grants and loans.
  • Implement federal contract compliance-related processes and activities such as intake of federal contract awards and modifications, System for Award Management certifications, regulatory requirements monitoring and change management, training for those working with federal government contracts, and monitoring of compliance with federal acquisition regulations.
  • Partner with Functional Areas to: understand and document Federal contract compliance obligations and associated controls and business processes. Complete or coordinate compliance validation activities and control effectiveness testing activities. Assess and resolve complex control deficiency issues and ensure that remediation actions are effective. Assess and analyze complete regulatory requirement issues to determine impact and remediation efforts. Assess compliance risk and design control risk mitigation plans and support business implementation.
  • Track and report key compliance metrics.

This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and your assigned work location based on business need.

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.

A reasonable salary range is:

Bay Area Minimum: $118,000

Bay Area Maximum: $188,000

Job Responsibilities

• Provides program and compliance support related to federal contracting, including identification and management of associated compliance requirements and the governance framework and resources that enable Functional Areas to fully comply with their respective Federal Contract Compliance requirements.
• Supports coordination and collaboration among Functional Areas that share compliance obligations, primarily those related to the Federal Acquisition Regulations.

• Implements improvement in the enterprise Federal Contract Compliance program; consistently demonstrates innovative and new thinking focused on program strategy, guidance document and controls development, compliance risk analysis and monitoring.
• Creates compliance program strategies, templates and direction.
• Anticipates risk and compliance issues and develops innovative solutions to mitigate risks.
• May participate in established compliance or risk management forums at the enterprise level.
• Develops and coordinates preparation of presentation materials for various levels of management up to and including senior vice president.
• Provide support and recommendations to federal contract compliance stakeholders
• Supports integrated planning deliverables related to enterprise compliance.
• Works autonomously and has a solid leadership role and function.
• Presents findings and makes recommendations to functional management, directors, officers and their employees.
• Leads, and develops materials for, training and educating employees and leaders 1:1 or in small groups to ensure understanding of compliance management principles and other needed items to support organization-wide awareness and facilitate LOB behaviors related to federal contract compliance.
• Assist with other compliance-related projects and activities as needed.

Qualifications

Minimum
• Bachelor's degree in in any of Management, Risk and Insurance, Business, Accounting, Finance, or related discipline; or equivalent experience
• Minimum of 7 years of experience in risk or compliance management, utility operations or related field

Desired

• Prior experience in any of the following:

• • Risk or compliance management, utility operations or other highly regulated field
  • Federal contracting (including grants and loans) and Federal Acquisition Regulations

• Advanced analytics and issue resolution skills
• Able to work closely with Functional Area representatives as a true partner
• Applies demonstrated knowledge and skill to resolve complex problems
• Able to develop complex as is and to be process maps for risk and compliance processes
• Able to address complex strategic issues and take a broad perspective to identify innovative solutions
• Able to identify and implement program and process improvement opportunities
• Ability to speak openly and knowledgably both to peers and leaders on risk and compliance issues
• Able to work independently

• MBA or Master's degree in related discipline
• Certified Compliance & Ethics Professional (CCEP) certification or equivalent

Purpose, Virtues and Stands

Our Purpose explains "why" we exist:

• Delivering for our hometowns
• Serving our planet
• Leading with love

Our Virtues capture "who" we need to be:

• Trustworthy
• Empathetic
• Curious
• Tenacious
• Nimble
• Owners

Our Stands are "what" we will achieve together:

• Everyone and everything is always safe
• Catastrophic wildfires shall stop
• It is enjoyable to work with and for PG&E
• Clean and resilient energy for all
• Our work shall create prosperity for all customers and investors

More About Our Company

EEO
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