Business Controls, Senior Specialist

About the role

In this job, you will help drive compliance integration activities, support SOX governance, and partner with leaders across the organization to identify risks, enhance controls, and protect the company. This is a unique opportunity to influence enterprise-wide compliance efforts while contributing to a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.

Incident Management Team Participation

Employees are expected to support emergency response and/or business continuity efforts, including readiness to serve on an Incident Management Team (IMT) when needed. Employees will participate in an on-call rotation (approximately every four to six weeks), to support IMT activations during emergency events. IMT assignments may differ from an individual's regular responsibilities.

Responsibilities

• Participates in developing controlling activities as well as developing and maintaining relationships with internal stakeholders.
• Prepares business controls data request responses and work papers in supporting corporate or governance, internal or external audits, and any pertinent regulatory filings.
• Researches and analyzes data and trending reports for upper management.
• Analyzes risk factors to identify the cost impact to the business so the appropriate steps can be taken to mitigate any risks that may arise.
• Monitors and reports on progress related to achieving operational and strategic objectives.
• Interprets, analyzes and reports on financial results for senior management and external auditors.
• Assists in developing standardized procedures to drive efficiency and optimization of business processes.
• Ensures compliance with regulatory requirements, energy regulations, and company policies and procedures.
• 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 implementing policies, processes, controls, and system improvements.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting compliance, SOX, governance, risk management, audit, quality assurance, or internal controls programs.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, and other business reporting and collaboration tools.
• Experience with data visualization tools, such as Power BI.
• Experience working in a utility industry.
• Ability to analyze complex data, identify trends, and translate findings into actionable recommendations for leadership.
• Strong attention to detail with the ability to manage multiple priorities, deadlines, and compliance tracking activities simultaneously.
• Ability to build effective partnerships and collaborate across multiple departments and organizational levels.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to prepare executive-ready reports, presentations, and status updates.
• Experience researching, interpreting, and applying company policies, procedures, and regulatory requirements.
• Ability to exercise sound judgment, identify potential risks, and proactively drive issue resolution.
• Experience facilitating meetings, tracking action items, and coordinating cross-functional initiatives from planning through implementation.
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment while maintaining a high level of accuracy and accountability.

Additional Information

This position's work mode is hybrid. 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.