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We encourage you to join our talented, dedicated workforce to develop world-class solutions for today and tomorrow’s energy challenges while learning new skills and growing your career.\nERCOT is committed to fostering inclusion at alllevels of our company. It is the cornerstone of our corporate values of accountability, leadership, innovation, trust, and expertise. We know that individuals with a wide variety of talents, ideas, and experiences propel the innovation that drives our success. An inclusive and diverseworkforce strengthens us and allows for a collaborative environment to solve the challenges that face our industry today and in the future.\nJOB SUMMARY\nFunctions as the subject matter expert and people leader for the ERCOT Verifiable Cost Process, overseeing a team of Settlement/Verifiable Cost Analysts who review and approve cost information submitted to ERCOT in a variety of data formats. Combines deep technical knowledge of power plant operations, accounting, and market rules with supervisory responsibility for staffing, performance management, workload prioritization, and professional development of the VC team. Serves as an escalation point for complex or disputed cost determinations and represents the VC function in cross-departmental and market-facing discussions.\nJOB DUTIES\nResponsible for hiring, coaching, training, and performance management of staff.\nFrequently interacts with direct reports and functional peer groups. Interaction normally requires the ability to gain cooperation of others.\nProvides direct supervision to professional individual contributors and/or skilled, support individual contributors. Acts as an advisor to department and may become actively involved, as required, to meet schedules and resolve problems. A small portion of time is normally spent performing individual tasks related to the department. 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Requests approval for financial actions beyond a limited scope per policy.\nADDITIONAL JOB DUTIES\nTeam Leadership & Development\nSupervises, coaches, and develops Verifiable Cost Analysts, including hiring, onboarding, performance reviews, and career development planning.\nAssigns and prioritizes workload across the VC team to meet settlement deadlines, balancing complex or high-risk reviews against day-to-day volume.\nBuilds team capability through training on the Verifiable Cost Manual, ERCOT Protocols, and evolving generation technologies, fuel markets, and cost structures.\nEstablishes and monitors quality-control standards for cost and efficiency parameter reviews to ensure consistency across analysts.\nTechnical & Process Oversight\nServes as the escalation point for complex O&M cost, heat rate, and operational parameter reviews for generating resources, including disputed or ambiguous determinations.\nDirects the development and maintenance of tools, calculations, and procedures used by the team to perform Verifiable Cost analysis, driving improvements in accuracy, efficiency, and timeliness.\nMaintains and evolves subject-matter expertise in the ERCOT competitive energy markets, generation technologies, and regulatory developments affecting Verifiable Costs and Settlements.\nOversees resolution of client questions and disputes related to settlement computations, ensuring timely and well-documented outcomes.\nStakeholder & Cross-Functional Engagement\nCommunicates team status, risks, and key issues to management through formal reports and regular updates.\nBuilds and maintains strong working relationships with Settlement, Credit, Retail, and Metering teams, as well as staff in other ERCOT departments.\nRepresents the Verifiable Cost function in discussions with Market Participants, regulatory stakeholders, and internal projects.\nSupports and facilitates the implementation and enhancement of ERCOT's Commercial Operation Systems-providing VC-specific requirements, testing support, and certification criteria-while managing systems development, workflow procedures, and cross-departmental coordination with ERCOT clients through effective project and contract management\nEXPERIENCE\nRequires minimum 5 years job related work experience and 1 year in a leadership role preferred in excess of degree requirements. 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