The opportunity
Are you driven by purpose and motivated to make a meaningful impact? At the Market Assessment and Compliance Division (MACD), you'll be part of a team dedicated to ensuring the fair and effective application of market rules benefiting both the electricity sector and consumers across Ontario.
Our mission is to foster conduct that enhances reliability, promotes market efficiency, and delivers fair outcomes. We do this through rigorous oversight, strategic enforcement, and proactive engagement with market participants. As part of MACD, you'll contribute to fostering an electricity sector that values and respects market oversight as a cornerstone of its success.
Whether your expertise lies in auditing, enforcement, market monitoring, or data analysis, MACD offers a dynamic, high-impact environment where your work directly supports the integrity and reliability of Ontario's electricity system. If you're ready to make a difference in a high-impact regulatory role, we invite you to explore a career with MACD.
The IESO will be hiring up to 4 staff into this role to become part of the teams working in the following areas of its Market Assessment and Compliance Division (MACD):
- Monitoring and Data Analysis: monitoring activities and behaviours in the Ontario electricity system for preliminary detection of events of interest that might lead to non-compliance investigations, enforcement activity and/or public assessments from the Market Surveillance Panel. This may include assessing the efficiency and overall functioning of the IESO-administered markets, or specific market participant conduct to detect potential manipulation, abuse of market power, or anti-competitive behavior, and detecting emerging risks such as reliability concerns or design improvements to the IESO-administered markets.
- Reliability Standards Auditing: accountable for monitoring and auditing compliance with reliability standards established by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), the Northeast Power Coordinating Council (NPCC) and the IESO. This may include audit planning and execution and supporting a culture of proactive compliance among market participants.
- Compliance and Enforcement: assesses matters of potential non-compliance with market rules and reliability standards, conduct formal investigations, generate case recommendations, and fosters compliance through a variety of enforcement actions, payment recovery, breach prevention and rule education activities.
This role is great for somone who has:
- Data and Analytical skills - perform data analysis and determine which data is required, understand how/where to find and retrieve the data
- Strong oral and written communications skills - be able to clearly and concisely communicate requirements, updates and outcomes
- Critical Thinking - to contribute to developing a concept and apply critical thinking to determine what the potential issue is and what data/evidence/approach is required to prove or disprove the concept
- Experience related to the electrical industry, power system operations/planning, regulatory and/or enforcement activities or audits
This position is part of a Promotion-in-Place Plan effective. Those that do not meet all the qualififcations will be considered as a Assistant Analyst Compliance and Dispute Resolution.
Read the full posting.Independent Electricity System Operator
1600-120 Adelaide Street West
Toronto
Ontario Canada
www.ieso.ca
