Senior Corporate Counsel
Ameren
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • Illinois, Montana, Washington • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $161,600 - $250,500 per year
Job Level
Senior
About the role
- Provide legal representation, advice, or support for the organization as requested by clients.
- Work independently to identify risks and issues and recommend solutions to solve complex problems.
- Oversee or conduct legal research relevant to the scope of responsibility.
- Lead functional teams or projects.
- Provide subject matter expertise in the area of specialization and help guide decision making with a regulatory and ratemaking consciousness.
- Actively engaged in informal department management, including training and mentoring less-experienced attorneys and staff, leading department initiatives, identifying and implementing significant process improvements and driving change.
- Broaden the identification and adoption of continuous improvement opportunities to the Legal Department as a whole.
- Identify risks and offer solutions for resolving client projects of higher complexity.
- Routinely provides advice to less-experienced co-workers, assisting them with their assigned projects, and helping them build trust and professional relationships throughout the organization.
- Work collaboratively with legal colleagues, Ameren business lines, the VP of Federal Regulatory Affairs and VP of Federal Legislative Affairs to develop and implement policy positions and related strategies.
- Work collaboratively with legal colleagues, Ameren business lines, the VP of Federal Regulatory Affairs and other internal stakeholders to develop and/or manage filings/communications with FERC including interventions/protests, rehearing requests, compliance filings, rate cases, settlement conferences and hearings.
- Appear in FERC dockets and represent Ameren in matters pertaining to federal energy policy and supervise outside counsel activities and review related work products and manage outside counsel spend.
- Handle other Federal and State legal matters and issues impacting Ameren and its businesses.
Requirements
- Juris Doctorate Degree (J.D.) from an accredited law school required.
- Ten or more years of experience in a law firm, corporate legal department or other comparable legal setting with experience in an area of specialty required.
- Licensed and eligible to practice in Illinois, Missouri or Washington, D.C. required.
- Advanced knowledge of legal primary practice area (FERC regulation) required.
- Transaction experience in wholesale energy, interconnection, transmission and related matters is preferred.
Benefits
- Medical coverage on date of hire
- 100% employer paid cash balance pension plan
- 401(k) with company match fully vested on date of hire
- Minimum of 15 days paid vacation and 12 paid holidays
- Paid parental leave and family caregiver leave
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
legal representationlegal researchregulatory compliancerisk identificationproblem solvingprocess improvementtransaction experiencewholesale energyinterconnectiontransmission
Soft skills
independent workleadershipmentoringcollaborationcommunicationtrust buildingproject managementdecision makingchange managementtraining
Certifications
Juris Doctorate (J.D.)licensed to practice in Illinoislicensed to practice in Missourilicensed to practice in Washington, D.C.