Climate Change: Cap-and-Invest Finance Monitoring Team Lead (Financial Examiner 4)

Duties

• Lead finance monitoring team—two to three team members along with yourself—responsible for developing and maintaining the market monitoring strategy for Cap-and-Invest entities.
• Regularly assign and review staff work products and ensure processes exist to create and maintain strong market monitoring strategies.
• Direct and support finance monitoring staff as they use financial tools to analyze complex companies, including reviewing how staff evaluate whether required corporate disclosures are complete and accurate.
• Plan, assign, and supervise business and financial analysis conducted by finance monitoring staff including the development of new techniques and work methods where established procedures do not exist.
• Provide ongoing mentoring, coaching, and guidance for junior staff—especially those within the Auctions and Market Section and financial market monitoring team.
• Regularly review, assess, and approve market monitoring analyses and other technical work completed by finance monitoring staff to ensure accuracy, consistency, and compliance with program standards.
• Evaluate and review market monitoring work and analyses conducted by others.
• Lead and/or coordinate staff collaboration with market monitoring, information security, and application development staff to design, develop, and maintain required registration and disclosure forms, and other user and entity interfaces with the program.
• Collaborate, train, or work to support finance monitoring staff as necessary in participating in cross-cutting work with others within Ecology, and other State agencies such as the Department of Revenue, Department of Financial Institutions, Utilities and Transportation Commission, Department of Commerce, and federal organizations such as the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and Securities and Exchange Commission.

  Qualifications

  • Nine years of experience and/or education related to the duties of the position, which includes the following:
    • Leadership & Team Development – demonstrated competence in leading, mentoring, and developing diverse analytical teams to build a collaborative, emotionally intelligent, and high performing finance monitoring unit.
    • Advanced Financial & Market Analysis – ability to conduct and guide complex financial, institutional, and commodity market analyses to detect risks, identify anomalous behavior, and ensure informed regulatory decisions.
    • Regulatory Interpretation & Compliance Oversight – experience interpreting and applying rules and program requirements to assess applicability, evaluate compliance, and support consistent decisions.
    • Market Surveillance & Risk Identification – skills in deploying financial monitoring techniques, statistical tools, and market intelligence to proactively identify market manipulation, compliance failures, and systemic risks across primary, secondary, and futures markets.
    • Strategic Multi-Party Coordination – ability to collaborate with internal sections, external organizations and others to coordinate work efforts, ensure consistent regulatory responses, and uphold program transparency and reliability.
    • Analytical Method Development & Continuous Improvement – demonstrated competence in designing, refining, and implementing analytical approaches and work processes to strengthen the team’s ability to evaluate complex financial entities and evolving market conditions.
    • Confidential Information Management – skills in applying secure data handling and confidentiality practices to safeguard sensitive information and support responsible program operations.
    • Clear, Plain Language Communication – experience translating complex financial, regulatory, and market risk concepts into clear, accessible verbal and written communication to support decision making by staff, management, leadership, and external partners.