Regulatory Affairs & Compliance Senior Specialist

Southern California Edison; Pomona (CA); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Southern California Edison is seeking a Regulatory Affairs & Compliance Senior Specialist to lead NERC CIP governance across Transmission & Distribution. You will coordinate with T&D, IT, Corporate Security and Engineering to improve controls and audit readiness while ensuring data protection and regulatory performance.

The role focuses on governance, advocacy, and cross-functional collaboration to strengthen compliance and transparency in regulatory activities.

Qualifications

• Five or more years of experience with regulatory filings/proceedings and compliance standards.
• Experience with SAP preferred.
• NERC CIP compliance experience preferred.
• Demonstrated data analytics capability.
• Strong Excel skills and attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Formulates positions and draft regulatory filings to support advocacy efforts.
• Collaborates with legal team to ensure compliance with regulatory obligations.
• Collaborates with internal and external parties to ensure regulatory rules compliance.
• Shares insights to define advocacy strategies and outreach plans.
• Monitors and reviews regulatory compliance evidence and activities.
• Guides on growth initiatives including M&A relevance to regulatory matters.
• Identifies industry associations valuable to the company.
• Monitors regulatory proceedings and ensures filings compliance.
• Participates in audits to ensure policy compliance.
• Protects sensitive data and assets with high standards of conduct.

Skills

Regulatory filings

NERC CIP

Data analytics

Excel

Tools

SAP

Job description

Join the Clean Energy Revolution

Become a Regulatory Affairs & Compliance Senior Specialist at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this job, you’ll provide leadership for NERC CIP compliance governance activities across Transmission & Distribution, ensuring audit readiness, reliable asset and evidence records, disciplined change control, and timely issue remediation. Direct cross-functional coordination with T&D, IT, Corporate Security, and Engineering. Sponsor modernization and continuous-improvement initiatives that strengthen controls, transparency, and regulatory performance of NERC CIP activities.

As a Regulatory Affairs & Compliance Senior Specialist, 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

• Formulates positions and draft regulatory filings to support advocacy efforts.
• Collaborates with legal team to ensure all compliance with regulatory obligations.
• Collaborates with various internal and external parties to ensure compliance with the rules set forth by the various regulatory organizations.
• Shares insights from collaborating with Retail business and Government Affairs team to define advocacy strategies and outreach plans.
• Monitors, investigates, and reviews compliance evidence in support of compliance activities.
• Provides regulatory guidance on a variety of key growth initiatives including M and A efforts.
• Identifies and participates in industry associations that may be valuable to the company.
• Monitors and participates in regulatory proceedings and governmental matters, and ensure company compliance with regulations and filings.
• Participates in conducting audit reviews to ensure that the company stays compliant with the policies and standards enforced by relevant agencies.
• 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

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

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with SAP
• Compliance or NERC CIP experience
• Demonstrated experience with data analytics
• Experience with process and controls
• Strong Excel skills
• Strong critical thinking skills
• Demonstrated attention to detail

Additional Information

• This position’s work mode ishybrid. 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.
• Visit our Candidate Resource page to get meaningful information related to benefits, perks, resources, testing information, hiring process, and more!
• 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.
• This position has been identified as a NERC/CIP impacted position - Prior to being hired, the successful candidate must pass a Personnel Risk Assessment (PRA) or Background Investigation. Once hired, the candidate must complete specified training prior to gaining un-escorted access to assigned work location and performing necessary job duties.

• Relocation does not apply to this position.

About Southern California Edison

The people at SCE don't just keep the lights on. Our mission is so much bigger. We’re fueling the kind of innovation that’s changing an entire industry, and quite possibly the planet. Join us and create a future with cleaner energy, while providing our customers with the safety and reliability they demand. At SCE, you’ll have a chance to grow personally and professionally, making a real impact in Southern California and around the world.

Southern California Edison is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status.

We are committed to ensuring that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodations at [e-mail] or [phone] and select option 2.