Sr. Manager, Trading Risk Management, Operational Excellence

NextEra Energy Marketing is one of the nation’s leading electricity and natural gas marketers, and a key player in the energy markets in the United States and Canada. As part of NextEra Energy Resources, we specialize in innovative energy strategies that maximize market value for our customers and stakeholders. Our team is skilled in market analysis, trading, risk management, and delivering tailored customer solutions across North America.

About the Role

This role partners closely with senior leaders and critical stakeholders to shape the strategic focus, engagement model, and enterprise-wide prioritization of transformation initiatives. The mission is to fuel urgency, spark innovation, simplify complexity, and champion a culture where continuous improvement is expected. The leader will drive governance of corrective action, human and organizational performance, centers of excellence, and enterprise transformation programs, ensuring each supports a future-focused, high-performance culture.

The Senior Manager Trade Compliance is responsible for leading multiple compliance teams, developing strategic compliance initiatives, and ensuring the company's alignment with SOX, CFTC, and FERC regulations. The emphasis is on providing strategic oversight for compliance activities across the Trading Risk Management division while supporting cross-departmental collaboration to align compliance processes with company objectives and regulatory standards.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate Trading Risk Management governance processes, including monthly senior EMC and business risk committee meetings; ensure agenda and materials are collated and pre-reads provided.
• Own the new activity integration process.
• Assist with all aspects of SOX compliance—narrative understanding and editing, documentation of controls, participation and support of testing, meeting with internal and external audit, review of possible deficiencies, IT remediation, etc.
• Liaise with NEE General Counsel, NEE Internal Audit, external audit partners, NEE Corporate Responsibility Office (CRO), Federal Regulatory Affairs (FRA), other Trading Risk Management groups, and commercial groups.
• Develop business and operational KPIs.
• Drive process improvement and a culture of rigorous execution; track and identify incident management and share lessons learned.
• Partner with operational leaders to uncover and support transformational opportunities, prioritize high-value initiatives, and accelerate the deployment of innovative solutions.
• Serve as PMO for Trading Risk Management, ensuring projects progress to delivery and management updates are provided.
• Oversee the Confirmation team and the offshore service provider in Mexico.
• Manage KYC processes.
• Support delivery of ETRM replacement as required.
• Lead and direct a team to ensure compliance with regulatory standards.
• Develop long-term compliance strategies and action plans.
• Mentor and train compliance managers and analysts.
• Engage with senior leadership to integrate compliance into corporate strategy.
• Ensure budget oversight and compliance with a significant scope.
• Lead large compliance projects with cross-functional stakeholders.
• Oversee preparation of compliance audits and reports for executive review.
• Deliver strategic compliance insights and recommendations to influence decision-making.
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Finance or Business Administration.
• Minimum 10+ years of experience.
• Minimum 2-4+ years of leadership experience.

Benefits

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