Compliance Specialist

New Leaf Energy is seeking a Compliance Specialist to develop, manage, and administer systems that protect and support our mission-critical work. 

This position may be filled out of our Lowell, MA, Boston, MA, or Oakland, CA offices. We value in-person collaboration and offer a hybrid work environment. Hybrid employees work in the office at least two out of every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, and are free to work from the office or from home on other days. 

About the role:

The Compliance Specialist will report directly to the General Counsel in a cross-functional role supporting the legal team and key responsibilities in other departments within New Leaf Energy.  They will be responsible for a broad swath of standard compliance work across the business. The key characteristic of the Compliance Specialist is that they have the ability to quickly and substantively understand a broad subset of the company’s objectives, such that they can contribute to developing systems that will grow as New Leaf Energy does.

In most cases, they will take over and improve upon already-established standard work that requires an exceptional level of diligence and detail to execute, primarily in partnership with the Legal and People Culture teams. In these areas, they will work with a high degree of independence and be relied upon for exceptional judgment to flag potential issues. 

In other cases, they will work with certain business leaders to develop new systems that protect the company against risk by standardizing document management and certain access points. In the near term, these projects are centered around New Leaf Energy’s utility-scale business, which requires collaboration with the Policy team, Legal team, and Interconnection team.

Across all of these responsibilities, it is critical that the person in this role works proactively to understand the business processes at hand, is discreet about the confidential information to which they have access, and feels confident in working directly with senior management to create new systems.

The key objective of this role is ensuring that all of New Leaf Energy’s mission-critical work is protected by underlying compliance systems that ensure our work can continue smoothly. As such, responsibilities include:

• Owning the New Leaf Energy entity management system, including entity formation, maintenance, dissolution, tax form filings, and IRS interaction;
• Developing, implementing and managing a system to track compliance with state regulations and licensing requirements across the organization;
• Collaborating with Legal and key stakeholders across the company in developing systems and processes for compliance with corporate and employment laws and FERC regulations; 
• Supporting the People and Culture department in managing and maintaining state withholding and posting requirements;
• Owning mandated prevention and training programs to ensure annual compliance across all jurisdictions,  
• Calendaring and managing compliance deadlines;
• Assisting in the maintenance and management of corporate records; 
• Administering New Leaf Energy’s incentive agreements;
• Organizing and tracking corporate contracts;
• Developing and managing a system to ensure appropriate employees qualify for, receive access to and are onboarded on Regional Transmission Operator (RTO) portals and CEii access;
• Acting as security administrator, administering market participation activities in RTOs in accordance with corporate policy, and leading preparation of annual RTO compliance submissions;
• Supporting process of seeking membership and market participant status in new RTOs;
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

While no one individual will possess them all, the successful candidate will bring many of the following experiences, skills, and attributes. If you’re unsure of whether you meet enough of the qualifications below but believe that your experience and skill set is a good match for this position, we invite you to apply!

• Three or more years experience in an administrative support role, with evidence of increasing responsibility within;
• Demonstrated experience handling confidential information;
• Experience with corporate housekeeping and corporate tasks;
• The ability to develop new systems and processes for tracking and summarizing key information;
• Proven problem-solving capabilities, and motivation to advance continuous improvement;
• Extraordinarily strong communication skills; particularly takes pride in impeccable writing;
• Exceptionally detail-oriented; proactively plans next steps on multiple projects simultaneously;
• Dedicated to proactively digging deep on a problem, looking around corners, being brave about identifying potential impediments; 
• Demonstrates flexibility and a willingness to take on unfamiliar tasks;
• A collaborative, positive attitude;
• A passion for our mission and a willingness to learn, grow, and challenge the status quo are a must. 

Compensation

New Leaf Energy compensates all employees in three ways: market-competitive base salary, plus above-market variable compensation, plus an equity-like program such that all employees experience the benefits of ownership.  We use a data-driven and transparent methodology to calibrate compensation that is externally competitive and internally equitable, guided by the New Leaf Energy compensation manual, which is available to all employees.

Under our compensation framework, the likely base salary range for this position is 73,170 - 85,030. The on-target annual cash bonus associated with this position is an additional 10% percent of base salary. Your actual salary may be above, in, or below this range, depending on your location and experience. Our office locations in Lowell, Boston, and Oakland all carry geography-based upward adjustments to the base pay range.

We value transparency and can share more during the interview process.