About this opportunity:

The Commodity Compliance team ensures Cenovus’s compliance with global commodity trading regulations, oversees Enterprise Trading Risk Management systems (ETRMs), and owns the Market Risk Management Framework governing market risk across physical and financial trading. Reporting to the Senior Manager, Commodity Compliance, this role offers the opportunity to contribute to compliance, market risk governance, cross-functional problem solving, project delivery, and the effective use of ETRMs to support Cenovus’s trading activities.

What you’ll do:

Execute and enhance compliance controls, system access administration, and compliance reporting

Maintain compliance plans, policies, procedures, and controls, and monitor adherence

Monitor regulatory requirements and industry practices, and support implementation of required changes

Support compliance training and review new transactions and products for regulatory impact

Manage projects to operationalize new commodity business activities within ETRM systems

Prepare regulatory filings and required compliance reports

Who you are:

Our ideal candidate will have the following minimum requirements:

Legally authorized to work in Canada

Minimum of 5 years’ experience in the oil and gas industry, with exposure to compliance responsibilities in any functional area

Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field or equivalent compliance experience

Strong technical capability in automation, reporting, monitoring, and data visualization

Experience designing and overseeing governance frameworks and internal control processes

Proven project management skills, particularly implementing new business activities in systems of record

Deep knowledge of commodity trading compliance, ETRMs, and front-, middle-, and back-office operations in oil & gas

We acknowledge the value of transferrable skills and may consider equivalent combinations of experience and education should you not meet a specific requirement.

Note: The application deadline for this position is 11:59 PM MT January 16, 2026.

Cenovus was ranked one of Canada’s Best Employers in 2025. We’re committed to being an employer of choice in our industry by offering a competitive total rewards package and employee programs and rewarding career development opportunities. Learn more.  

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Who we are:

Ranked as one of Canada’s Best Employers in 2025, Cenovus is an integrated energy company headquartered in Calgary. We’re committed to maximizing value by developing our assets in a safe, responsible and cost-efficient manner. We operate in Canada, the United States and the Asia Pacific region. Our operations include oil sands projects in northern Alberta, thermal and conventional crude oil and natural gas projects across Western Canada, crude oil production offshore Newfoundland and Labrador and natural gas and liquids production offshore China and Indonesia. Cenovus’s downstream operations include upgrading, refining and marketing operations in Canada and the United States.

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The Cenovus experience

Total rewards

We’re committed to being an employer of choice through competitive compensation and our comprehensive total rewards package, including:

Paid vacation (including a flex day program for eligible staff)

Health & dental benefits

Substantial mental health coverage

Life insurance

Disability benefits

Employee family assistance

Virtual healthcare coverage

Our development philosophy

We foster a culture of continuous learning and development to support employees as they build meaningful careers. We offer a variety of employee development initiatives, including:

Internal course offerings

Education assistance for additional development

Opportunities to work on special projects

Leadership development programs for emerging and established leaders

We actively promote internal job movement, recognizing the value of gaining new perspectives, building connections across teams, and applying expertise in new ways. As a fully integrated energy company, we believe that sharing knowledge across our business and operations creates stronger outcomes—for employees and for the company as a whole.

Our culture

Our purpose: We energize the world to make people’s lives better.

Our values:

Protect what matters

Do it right

Make it better

Do it together

Cenovus Cares: We believe in the power of purpose-driven work. Our Employee Giving and Volunteering Program, Cenovus Cares, connects our people to our purpose, inspiring action and elevating impact year-round.

Support causes you care about with volunteer opportunities in and outside of work.

Earn donation grants while volunteering (up to $1,000 per event).

Receive donation matching up to $25,000 annually.

Staff resource groups: We have various staff resource groups to help ensure our people feel a sense of belonging and can grow and do their best work. These voluntary groups are employee-led and all groups are open to all staff in all locations.

Equal opportunity employer

We believe a workplace where everyone has merit-based opportunities to grow, achieve career aspirations and feel a sense of belonging benefits our people, our company and the regions where we live and work. We embrace and encourage different perspectives and approaches, which help us make better business decisions. We believe that through this approach, we can solve challenges, seize opportunities and unlock innovative solutions.

To achieve an unbiased and respectful workplace, individuals are evaluated based on qualifications, merit and abilities, and we encourage applications from all qualified candidates. We also acknowledge the value of transferrable skills and may consider equivalent combinations of experience and education should you not meet a specific requirement.

For more information about working at Cenovus, visit cenovus.com.

The requirements of this posting may be modified to support business needs. Title and compensation administration will be based on the skills and capabilities of the successful incumbent.

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