Regulatory Compliance Senior Advisor

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Date: Apr 29, 2026

Location: Westminster, CA, US, 92683

Company: Southern California Edison

Join the Clean Energy Revolution

Become a Regulatory Compliance Senior Advisor at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this job, you’ll provide strategic leadership to ensure the organization meets complex regulatory obligations while balancing operational efficiency and risk management. The role influences enterprise-wide decision making by interpreting regulatory requirements, advising senior leaders, and driving proactive compliance strategies that reduce exposure and support business objectives. Through cross functional collaboration, the Sr Advisor strengthens governance, enhances audit readiness, and promotes a strong culture of compliance and accountability.

 As a Regulatory Compliance Senior Advisor, your work will help power our planet, reduce carbon emissions and create cleaner air for everyone. Are you ready to take on the challenge to help us build the future?

Responsibilities

  • Develops company-wide policy, program and procedure documents to support the company's compliance with the required agencies.
  • Leads response to regulatory compliance monitoring events, enforcement actions, compliance filings, data- reporting, and data requests.
  • Develops and maintains compliance plans, procedures, and reports.
  • Improves regulatory data management; ensuring all legal registers are updated, and that incident management tools and systems are functioning and properly integrated with business planning processes.
  • Improves the identification, monitoring and interpretation of new and changing technical regulations, assessing impact and preparing operations for any changes required in response.
  • Identifies and initiates continuous improvement in regulatory compliance and identifies opportunities to improve policies and standards.
  • Conducts proactive compliance and operational risk assessments to identify potential areas of non-compliance. Collaborates with various stakeholders to provide direction and implement sound business decisions. Reviews strategies and business communications in order to ensure compliance with applicable rules and regulations enacted by external regulatory authorities.
  • Initiates, manages, and oversees periodic audits or assessments of the compliance program to verify compliance performance and engage in gap analysis and, if appropriate, recommend improvements.
  • Reviews company procedures to ensure they align with the company's current codes and policies.
  • 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

  • Ten or more years of experience with regulatory compliance, guidelines, compliance standards, risk assessment of noncompliance issues or cybersecurity.

 

Preferred Qualifications

  • 10+ years of progressive experience in regulatory compliance, risk management, internal audit, or a related governance function withing the electrical utility industry
  • Deep knowledge of applicable regulatory frameworks and standards (e.g., FERC, NERC, WECC, CAISO, industry specific regulations)
  • Proven ability to interpret complex regulatory requirements and translate them into practical, business aligned guidance
  • Experience developing or enhancing compliance programs, governance frameworks, or monitoring strategies using AI technologies
  • Strong background in audit management, regulatory examinations, issue remediation, and control design/effectiveness testing
  • Demonstrated experience advising senior leadership and influencing enterprise level decisions
  • Excellent cross functional collaboration skills, with the ability to lead without authority and align diverse stakeholders
    • Advanced analytical, problem solving, and strategic thinking capabilities
    • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including executive level briefings

 

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.
  • Visit our Candidate Resource page to get meaningful information related to benefits, perks, resources, testing information, hiring process, and more!
  • Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. 
  • Relocation does not apply to this position.

 

About Southern California Edison

The people at SCE don't just keep the lights on. Our mission is so much bigger. We’re fueling the kind of innovation that’s changing an entire industry, and quite possibly the planet. Join us and create a future with cleaner energy, while providing our customers with the safety and reliability they demand. At SCE, you’ll have a chance to grow personally and professionally, making a real impact in Southern California and around the world.

 

Southern California Edison is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status.

 

We are committed to ensuring that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodations at AskHR@sce.com or (626) 302-3456 and select option 2.


Nearest Major Market: Orange County
Nearest Secondary Market: Los Angeles

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