Senior Manager, Compliance Assurance

Date:

January 5, 2026

Location:

Toronto, ON

Requisition ID:

20743

Status:

Regular

Business Unit:

Legal Resources and Corporate Governance

Why join us?

The IESO is committed to ensuring Ontario’s electricity system meets the province’s needs today and into the future.

We are charged with purpose

, delivering reliable, affordable, and sustainable electricity for homes, businesses, and communities across the province.

We are energized to grow

, embracing opportunities to shape the future of a dynamic and evolving energy sector while advancing our careers.

We are powered by teamwork

, supported by diverse and passionate colleagues who foster respect, celebrate successes, and thrive on shared achievements. At the IESO, it’s not just what we do—it’s who we are!

Who We Are

Our central role includes managing the provincial power grid in real-time, overseeing and evolving Ontario’s electricity market, engaging with government, municipalities and Indigenous communities, and planning for Ontario’s future electricity needs. Our employees play a key role in driving grid innovation, protecting the system from threats, advancing the province’s energy conservation programs, and forecasting and procuring the electricity resources we’ll need in the decades to come.

This role is a part of the Legal Resources and Corporate Governance business unit. This role is a management position.

What Makes This Role Exciting

The energy sector is rapidly evolving, offering exciting new opportunities for those who want to make a difference. Reporting to the Director, Regulatory Affairs and Market Rules and managing a team of direct and indirect reports, the Senior Manager, Compliance Assurance provides tactical and strategic oversight and leadership of IESO compliance activities related to Ontario’s market rules and North American reliability standards. The role serves as a strategic liaison between senior leadership and operational teams, translating strategic priorities into specific work initiatives that align their teams’ activities to the goals of the business unit.

What You’ll Do

The Senior Manager, Compliance Assurance leads the organization’s compliance program, ensuring a strong, forward-looking posture aligned with enterprise priorities. This role drives a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and proactive risk mitigation while overseeing participation in reliability standards development with relevant authorities. The Senior Manager manages resources, balances strategic and operational work, and ensures high-quality outputs from the team’s day-to-day activities. Additionally, the role provides strategic input on internal compliance direction and aligns departmental strategies with business unit and organizational objectives.

Role

In this role, you’ll make a meaningful impact by contributing to the IESO team and supporting the electricity needs of the province through these key job functions:

Strategic Oversight & Leadership

- Translate strategic priorities into actionable compliance initiatives.

- Lead multiple teams in delivering core and strategic internal compliance and reliability standards development work, ensuring alignment with divisional and enterprise goals.

- Ability to assume the signing authority and represent the Director as required. Internal Compliance Program Management

- Develop and lead practices for their teams that may have organizational-wide impact including the internal compliance program.

- Oversee the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of the IESO’s internal compliance program.

- Administer a program that provides a high-degree of assurance of compliance with Ontario Market Rules, NERC and NPCC reliability standards, and other applicable regulatory frameworks.

- Provide regular reporting to senior leadership and contribute to enterprise-wide compliance metrics. Reliability Standards Development Management

- Coordinate within the IESO and externally with market participants for Ontario’s participation in reliability standards development.

- Advocate and influence IESO positions within compliance and reliability standards related committees, task forces and working groups.

- Coordinate reliability standards development procedures and activities with NERC, NPCC, MACD, market participants and the OEB as required.

Risk Identification & Mitigation

- Identify emerging compliance risks and develop mitigation and control strategies.

- Ensure timely and effective resolution of compliance issues, investigations, and audit findings.

- Develop and monitor risk mitigation plans on behalf of their teams regarding compliance activities, a few of which may be reported to the Executive Leadership Team and the Board of Directors.

Stakeholder Engagement

- Represent the IESO in internal and external forums related to internal compliance and reliability standards development.

- Collaborate with regulatory bodies, industry stakeholders, and internal business units to influence best practices and ensure alignment between strategic priorities and operational objectives.

- Has occasional interaction with IESO Executive Leadership Team and at times, Board Committees on matters related to compliance assurance.

- Provide Executive Leadership Team and Board materials to Director as applicable. Change Management & Continuous Improvement

- Lead change initiatives to enhance compliance processes, systems, and culture.

- Promote innovation and efficiency in compliance assurance activities.

People Leadership

- Lead and develop a high-performing compliance assurance team.

- Provide leadership for a team of direct and indirect reports acting as a liaison between the Executive Leadership Team (ELT) or Director and their teams.

- Oversee strategic workforce planning, succession planning, and capability development.

- Responsible for team capacity and capability planning.

- Provide leadership oversight and direction to staff (e.g. defines team member roles, responsibilities, and expectations); delivers timely feedback to ensure a cohesive operational unit and the optimum use of team skills; manages staff and monitors work assignments for adherence to timelines

- Lead and influence cross-organizational work where a direct reporting relationship is not in place.

- Establish goals for teams ensuring alignment with corporate and business unit objectives, risks and mandate.

- Monitor teams’ progress against KPIs and strategic objectives.

- Champion change leadership and provide support of continued improvements and achievement of teams’ objectives.

- May influence objectives and plans at business unit level and cascades them to their teams.

- Provide coaching, mentoring, and performance management.

- Define team priorities and workplans and is accountable for teams’ performance review process.

- Participate in calibrating performance of team members in support of fairness and equity across the IESO.

- Accountable for execution of strategic people leadership activities for their teams.

- Ensure teams output effectively meets business needs and goals; ensuring quality, quantity, and timeliness of work production to achieve Division’s objectives.

Strategic Planning & Budgeting

- Support their people leader for divisional business planning and budget management activities.

- Allocate resources effectively to support department initiatives and ensure alignment with organizational goals.

- Identify teams’ budget needs to inform business planning and monitor budget forecasts/actuals at the team level.

- Monitor project and program progress to deliver objectives on time and within budget, and achieve anticipated business results while maximizing capital investment.

- Meet service delivery objectives and manage project and team activities within budgetary limits.

- Monitor progress to ensure that team objectives are delivered on time and within budget, and that anticipated business results are achieved.

- Oversee relevant consultant and vendor contracts as applicable.

- Apply LEAN principles to support financial stewardship.

- Develop and update monthly reports (e.g. Business Performance Reviews and Key Performance Indicators).

In a typical day, you will meet with peers across the organization to ensure readiness to meet new and emerging regulatory requirements. You will also meet with senior leadership, updating them on sector developments and indicating an overall status of the IESO's compliance program. You may also be engaged with stakeholders and regulators to support overall understanding of sector reliability obligations.

Role Requirements

Our team consists of experts from diverse backgrounds, each bringing their unique perspectives and skills.

To Succeed In This Role, You’ll Need

- University degree in engineering, law, public policy, or a related field; advanced degree or professional certification is an asset.

- Typically requires 10-12 years of progressive experience in compliance, regulatory affairs, or system and market operations.

- Strong understanding of the IESO structure, mandate, and Ontario’s electricity sector, with up-to-date knowledge of industry trends, best practices, and technological developments in reliability standards, market rules, and internal compliance.

- Current knowledge of Artificial Intelligence and Large Language Models and applications to regulatory frameworks.

- Proven experience in strategic compliance leadership, preferably in the electricity sector or a similarly regulated industry.

- Proven ability to plan, organize, and manage complex, evolving priorities with strong strategic implementation experience.

- Exceptional attention to detail and accuracy, combined with advanced analytical and problem-solving skills.

- Demonstrated leadership in guiding cross-functional teams and influencing organizational-wide outcomes.

- Strong communication, listening, and interpersonal skills to build relationships and engage stakeholders effectively.

- Expertise in change management, risk management, audit coordination, and regulatory reporting.

- Progressive experience in strategic oversight, team development, and budget monitoring.

How We Support You

From a comprehensive total rewards program to dynamic learning and development opportunities—including job rotations to broaden your expertise—we empower you to define and shape your own success. When you join the IESO, here’s what you can expect:

- Best-in-class benefits and long-term support in the form of a defined benefit pension plan.

- Work in a dynamic and evolving sector that offers exciting opportunities and the chance to explore new career paths.

- Leadership that values meaningful discussions, welcomes feedback, and prioritizes career development.

- A strong, inclusive culture and a collaborative team environment with a shared passion for impactful work.

- Compensation packages that are regularly reviewed to remain competitive and to best accommodate the diverse needs of our employees.

Deadline

January 5, 2026. For future reference, please save a copy of the job posting as it will no longer be available once the posting closes.

Thank you for your interest in a career at the IESO. Only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted. Please note that the successful candidate must be legally eligible to work in Canada and will be subject to applicable background checks.

IESO will not conduct interviews or offer positions via online, text, chat or social media platforms. We will not gather personal information directly from candidates or potential candidates. Selected candidates will work with our Talent Acquisition team to ensure their application is processed.

The IESO will be transitioning to a 3-day in-office work week effective January 2026. Over the course of 2026, the IESO will advance plans to acquire additional office space to accommodate more in-office time. While the timeline for moving to a full 5-day in-office model has not yet been established, we are committed to keeping employees and candidates informed as plans progress and give them as much advance notice as possible to prepare for any changes.

We believe in opportunities for everyone.

At the IESO, we know that achieving great results depends on embracing diversity by attracting, developing, and retaining people from a wide variety of backgrounds. We do this by ensuring our recruitment and advancement policies are fair and equitable, and by creating an accessible and inclusive environment—one that values every team member’s unique skills and experiences and ensures they have the support they need to achieve their potential. If you require accommodation during the recruitment process, please let us know.

We’re proud to say we’ve been recognized as a supportive, inclusive employer.