Senior or Lead Market Analyst - Remote Eligable

Southwest Power Pool (SPP) is about more than power. We’re about the power of relationships. Our employees have the opportunity to work together to ensure electricity is delivered reliably and affordably to the millions of people living in our service territory. We have been voted one of Arkansas’ Best Places to work by Arkansas Business and we are looking for a member of our team who is passionate about our mission to keep the lights on!

We have a core ideology here at SPP that we stand by: Do the right thing, for the right reason, in the right way.

We believe in supporting our employees through a fantastic benefits package:

• Competitive pay with bonus opportunities
• Excellent insurance package including three great medical plans to choose from, employer-paid short term disability, long term disability, and life insurance
• Relocation assistance
• Flexible working environment for positions that are eligible where employees have the flexibility to work from home and come in where collaborative in person work is needed.
• Fantastic contributions to your retirement through a 401(k) savings plan with employer-match benefits and a defined benefit plan fully funded by SPP

Overview

The Senior or Lead Market Analyst is responsible for identifying and implementing efficiencies in market processes, designing and overseeing market initiative development, tracking and reporting, providing technical policy support to Markets from design conception through hand-off to implementation teams, and facilitating design validation reviews post-implementation.  In carrying out these responsibilities, the Senior or Lead Market Analyst will ensure adherence to SPP stakeholder processes, including but not limited to the Revision Request (RR) process, protocol management process, and the strategic initiative request process. As such, strong presentation, public speaking, accountability,  planning, and organizational skills are required.

The Senior Market Analyst will be expected to have an understanding of the FERC jurisdictional SPP Tariff and other FERC-approved SPP market tariffs, the Integrated Marketplace Protocols, the Markets+ Protocols, the WEIS Protocols, the SPP Criteria, the SPP Business Practices, SPP’s stakeholder processes, as well as other regulatory requirements. The Lead Market Analyst will be expected to have an advanced understanding of the FERC jurisdictional SPP Tariff and other FERC-approved SPP market tariffs, the Integrated Marketplace Protocols, the Markets+ Protocols, the WEIS Protocols, the SPP Criteria, the SPP Business Practices, as well as other regulatory requirements.

The Senior or Lead Market Analyst is responsible for facilitating market policy discussions with cross-functional SPP staff, market participants, vendors, FERC, and other RTOs/ISOs related to market initiatives, resolving market issues, and presenting market design changes to various SPP organizational working groups and internal committees. In addition, the Senior or Lead Market Analyst will support special projects and be responsible for day-to-day tasks necessary to create and evolve wholesale energy market tariffs and protocols, market processes, and market initiative tracking, reporting, and oversight procedures. 

The Senior or Lead Market Analyst will work closely with SPP Operations, Legal, Regulatory, Settlements, and Congestion Hedging departments to ensure that the implemented software and processes are consistent with approved market design.  This position will support resolving complex problems and ensuring market and operations software and procedures comply with the Integrated Marketplace Protocols and SPP Tariff.  As such, accurate and effective analytical decision-making is required.

The Senior or Lead Market Analyst is expected to manage individual work efforts.

Essential Functions 

• Provide analytical leadership, assistance, counsel, training, and customer service to all Markets staff involved in facilitating stakeholder processes, including RR development, protocol drafting, and compliance reviews.
• Provide leadership of cross-functional market processes, such as governing document management and reviewing project priorities.
• Develop a high level of familiarity with relevant market and operations tools
• Analyze proposed changes to processes and systems to determine the impact of the changes
• Assist Markets leadership with special projects
• Develop, lead, and support the scoping, scheduling, coordination, impact assessments, and execution of the Markets' Strategic Initiative Requests (SIRs) or other special projects, including analyzing the impacts on the market and Market operations.
• Serve as liaison between external and internal customers by anticipating, identifying, addressing, resolving, and communicating po