Senior Market Compliance Analyst
On-siteHouston, Texas, United States
Job Summary
Conduct surveillance of physical and financial power trading, including virtual transactions, FTRs, congestion, capacity, renewable products, and bilateral transactions across PJM, ERCOT, CAISO, MISO, SPP, NYISO, and ISO-NE. Monitor activity for market-conduct, tariff, and regulatory risks; investigate surveillance alerts, unusual trading patterns, potential market abuse, and tariff violations. Develop and enhance surveillance reports, dashboards, analytics, and automated monitoring tools using SQL, Python, Power BI, or similar technologies. Advise traders, originators, schedulers, marketers, and commercial teams on market rules, tariffs, and regulatory requirements from FERC, CFTC, and ISOs/RTOs. Maintain compliance policies, procedures, and governance documentation while supporting regulatory inquiries, audits, and investigations. Participate in new-product and market-expansion initiatives to ensure appropriate compliance controls are incorporated.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Business, Energy Management, Law, or related field
- 5–8+ years of relevant experience in energy trading compliance, market surveillance, regulatory affairs, market monitoring, risk, or regulatory advisory
- Strong knowledge of North American wholesale power markets, including organized and bilateral markets and ISO/RTO structures
- Direct experience supporting physical and financial power trading, including virtuals, FTRs, congestion products, bilateral power, capacity, swaps, futures, and options
- Strong knowledge of ISO/RTO tariffs and market rules across markets such as PJM, ERCOT, CAISO, MISO, SPP, NYISO, and ISO-NE
- Strong understanding of FERC and CFTC regulations, anti-manipulation requirements, market-conduct rules, and enforcement expectations
- Experience conducting trade surveillance, investigations, compliance monitoring, risk assessments, and analysis of trading and market data
- Experience with surveillance/monitoring platforms such as SMARTS, CubeWatch, Whistler, Behavox, Fairwords, Shield, Power BI, or Spotfire
- Proficiency with data and automation tools such as SQL, Python, Power BI, Alteryx, Power Query, Excel/VBA, or similar technologies
- Strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to independently evaluate complex trading activity and provide practical compliance guidance
Desired Qualifications
- advanced degree/certifications
- Natural gas, LNG, renewable energy, and environmental-products experience
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