Manager, Rates and Regulatory Affairs

Our purpose is sustaining energy and water for life, and it is demonstrated in everything we do as a business, and as an employee team.

At Liberty, we hire passionate people who care about doing the right thing for our customers. We are entrepreneurial, creative, and outcome-focused. Here, your natural talent and achievements will flourish in an inclusive environment of teamwork, trust and continuous learning. We are always pursuing excellence to exceed our ambitions goals, rewarding both the goal outcome and how we achieve it.

Purpose

This position is an integral part of Liberty’s regional regulatory team, which provides support to Liberty’s regulated utilities in the West region. This position is responsible for all regulatory affairs and rates related functions in multiple jurisdictions. The Manager will support the Regional Director, on other regulatory matters and organizational strategies on a periodic basis. The Manager will perform regulatory and governmental outreach, prepare and implement rates filings and regulatory filings required at the state level. Has primary responsibility for managing the relationship with local regulatory commissions/authorities and other key stakeholders while ensuring that the policies and procedures of the organization comply with all applicable laws and regulations. Provide regulatory leadership and advice to direct and indirect reports to ensure regulatory compliance and to maximize earnings at the local state level.

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Accountabilities

• Responsible for the company’s regulatory applications and filings process to obtain all necessary permits, licenses, certificates, authorizations, and rate approvals
• Manage strategy and processes associated with general rate case management
• Establishes and maintains good relationships with regulatory authorities
• Liaises with regulatory authorities and commission staff and participates in industry forums to influence regulatory policies
• Ensure alignment of regulatory strategies to all key local functional areas to ensure regulatory compliance and to maximize shareholder value.
• Lead and continually improve upon rate making activities and planning
• Develop tactics to maximize rate recovery of prudently incurred capital and operating expenses
• Participate in industry associations and develop leadership positions for Liberty Utilities.
• Act as primary witness on rate and regulatory related filings at the local regulatory commissions.
• Manages the development of strategies associate with revenue requirements, cost recovery, rate making, customer programs, and gas/electric/water rate issues
• Responsible for the team of Analysts maintaining reporting and statistics related to tariff, revenues, sales, and compliance reporting

Education and Experience

• 10+ years' of experience in regulatory or an adjacent function, preferably within the utility industry
• Bachelor’s degree with a preferred focus in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related area of study
• Advanced understanding of revenue requirement and cost recovery programs
• Ability to evaluate team strengths and weaknesses, conduct skills-gap analysis and professionally develop the capabilities of a team of analysts
• Ability to thrive through transformation processes and demonstrated experience executing through organizational change
• Willingness to perform individual contributions, in addition to the daily management of your team

Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp. is a growing renewable energy and utility company with over $15 billion of assets across North America and internationally.

For more than 30 years, Algonquin has demonstrated an unwavering commitment to delivering clean energy and water solutions. Our rapid growth has led both our regulated utility services and renewable energy business groups into different geographies and commodities, but our purpose remains unchanged – Sustaining Energy and Water for Life.

Through our operating business (Liberty), we provide regulated electricity, water, and natural gas utility services to over 1 million customer connections, primarily in North America. And, our growing portfolio of clean, renewable wind, solar, hydro and thermal power generation facilities represent over 3 GW of renewable generation capacity in operation and under construction.

With our robust, diversified, and growing presence in communities across North America and internationally, we are continually demonstrating our “Think Global, Act Local” business model.

What we offer

Company funded Pension program

401k with Company match

Full insurance benefits (health/dental/vision/life)

Collaborative environment with a genuine flexible working policy

Share purchase/match plan

Defined Contribution savings plan

Top Talent Program

Volunteer paid days off

Employee Assistance Program

Achievement fund

We are focused on building a diverse and inclusive workforce. If you are excited about this role and are not certain you meet the all the qualification requirements, we encourage you to apply to further investigate the opportunity.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value each person’s unique background, diversity, experiences, perspectives and talents. Full participation of all employees in a safe, healthy and respectful environment is key to individual and company success. We are committed to fully utilizing the abilities of all of our employees and expect each of our employees to honor this commitment in their daily responsibilities.