A little about Capital Power
Capital Power (TSX: CPX) is dedicated to Powering Change by Changing Power. This north star guides our ambitions, focus, and actions as we transform our energy system to power a lower-carbon future. We're a growth-oriented North American energy company headquartered in Edmonton, Alberta. Our team safely delivers, builds, and creates balanced energy solutions for customers across North America.
Our people are at the core of our journey to deliver reliable, affordable, and lower-carbon power solutions. We provide purpose-driven work in a safe and inclusive environment, and we live by our North Star. With us, your contributions matter – we want you to be empowered to innovate, collaborate, and ultimately drive results. We're here to partner with you so you can learn, grow, and forge a career that's meaningful to you. Join us in powering North America!
Your Opportunity
One Permanent Full Time Position.
The Lead, Product & Trade Control is responsible for managing the Product and Trade Control Middle Office functions within the Commodity Risk Management Program, ensuring the integrity, accuracy, and compliance of trading and risk activities. This role oversees the daily operations of deal and position validation, price curve review, exception reporting, and risk controls, while providing leadership, mentorship, and strategic direction to the team. The Lead acts as the primary point of contact for audit inquiries, drives process improvements, and ensures all trading activities and reporting adhere to risk policies, delegation of authorities, and internal limits. The Lead also ensures robust workflow configuration and system integrity across ETRM platforms, supporting the organization’s risk management objectives.
You will contribute to our team by:
• Manage and mentor the Trade Operations team, fostering a culture of accuracy, compliance, and continuous improvement.
• Oversee daily deal and position validation, ensuring all transactions are accurately captured, validated, and reconciled in the ETRM system.
• Oversee daily risk reporting.
• Review and approve price curves and P&L attribution, ensuring reliable financial and risk reporting, and explaining sources of P&L and impacts of market activity.
• Maintain robust Middle Office controls, and ensure all trading activities are authorized and within internal limits and delegation of authorities.
• Coordinate and support internal and external audit inquiries related to trading, hedging, and risk management activities.
• Lead exception and compliance reporting, maintaining centralized audit logs and producing trade compliance exception reports for transparency and process effectiveness.
• Ensure accurate workflow configuration for validations, confirmations, amendments, and settlements across all deals and structured transactions.
• Drive process improvements and system integrity within the ETRM platform, ensuring all deals and data are captured and managed in alignment with risk management strategy and objectives.
What you will bring to the role:
Education:
• Post-secondary degree in Finance, Business, Economics, or a related field.
• Professional designation in a related field an asset (e.g., PRM, FRM, ERP, CFA).
Experience:
• 5+ years of middle office roles such as product control, trade control, risk management, or related functions within energy, commodities, or financial trading environments.
• 2+ years of managerial experience.
Technical Skills:
• Deep understanding of ETRM systems and workflows.
• Hands-on experience with daily deal validation, price curve review, P&L attribution, and risk reporting.
• Familiarity with SOX compliance and internal control frameworks.
• Proven experience managing, mentoring, and developing middle office teams.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional initiatives and drive process improvements.
• Strong communication skills for reporting, presenting findings, and collaborating with front office, risk, finance, and audit teams.
• Experience preparing and distributing daily P&L and risk reports to senior management.
• Demonstrated ability to drive improvements in workflow configuration, data validation, and system integrity.
• Experience implementing new controls, policies, or system enhancements.
Working Conditions:
Hybrid Office/Work from home position, with possible very minimal travel to meet business users at Capital Power facilities or other offices.
Additional Details:
This position will remain open until a suitable candidate is found.
Clearance of Credit check is required for this position.
In order to be considered for this role you must be legally eligible to work in Canada.
The successful candidate for this position will undergo an education verification, reference checks and criminal record check.
Capital Power employees that refer a successful candidate for this position are eligible for a $1000 Referral Reward!
We believe that creating a culture that supports employee physical, mental, financial, and social wellbeing is critical to our success. That is why we provide flexible and affordable employee benefits, retirement savings, and paid time off programs. We also provide comprehensive onboarding, training, and programs supporting your career development.
Depending on the posting requirements relocation assistance may be available.
How To Apply and Next Steps
Capital Power only accepts resumes via online application at www.capitalpower.com/careers. If you choose to submit your resume by any other means, we cannot guarantee that your application will be considered for vacancies.
Applicants with disabilities who require a reasonable accommodation to complete their application can request accessible formats, communication support, or other accessibility assistance by contacting careers@capitalpower.com.
Capital Power is committed to providing a fair and transparent hiring process. We recognize and embrace the value of diversity and hire employees with the appropriate skills, experience and knowledge for each position.
Thank you for taking the time to apply and expressing interest in powering a sustainable future with Capital Power! We wish that we could personally respond to everyone who applies; however, it is our practice to contact only those individuals selected for interviews.