Strategic Advisor: Market Risk Governance & Integration

Seattle City Light, is one of the nation’s largest municipally owned utilities in terms of the number of customers served. Over the years we have worked very hard to keep Seattle's electricity affordable, reliable, and environmentally sound. Today, City Light is a recognized national leader in energy efficiency and environmental stewardship. 

The Energy Risk Governance and Integration Advisor leads risk governance and risk-informed decision-making for City Light’s wholesale trading and market participation activities. This role focuses on identifying, assessing, and communicating energy, environmental, and market-structure risks, particularly those arising from evolving regional markets, regulatory change, and increasing market integration.

This is a strategic, cross-functional role that also requires hands-on analytical capability. The successful candidate will bring both deep program and industry knowledge (~70%) and demonstrated technical skills (~30%), including the ability to extract and manipulate data from ETRM and related systems, conduct quantitative analysis, and develop decision-ready dashboards and reports. The Advisor is expected to be equally comfortable advising leadership and rolling up their sleeves to solve problems directly.

The Advisor partners closely with internal teams (Trading, Settlements, Risk, Finance, Regulatory/Policy, Operations, IT) and engages external stakeholders (market operators, vendors, industry groups, and counterparties) to anticipate emerging risks and translate them into actionable strategies, controls, and recommendations.

This position reports to the Manager, ISO Settlements, Risk Control & Governance.