Summer 2025 Settlements Intern

Southwest Power Pool (SPP) is about more than power.

We’re about the power of relationships.

Our employees have the opportunity to work together to ensure electricity is delivered reliably and affordably to the millions of people living in our service territory.

We have been voted one of Arkansas’ Best Places to work by Arkansas Business and we are looking for a member of our team who is passionate about our mission to keep the lights on!

We have a core ideology here at SPP that we stand by: Do the right thing, for the right reason, in the right way.

Overview

The Settlements internship will consist of 10 – 12 weeks of fulltime Settlements work.

The Settlement Intern is responsible for support of market and/or transmission settlements, or other entry-level tasks as needed.

 The Settlement Intern provides support for the settlement staff, Supervisor of Settlements, Manager of Settlements, and Director of Settlements as necessary

Essential Functions


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* Primary support of daily market or transmission settlement production activities
+ Perform pre-settlement validations of billing determinants from source system interfaces
+ Perform settlement runs and posting activities in accordance with the market or transmission settlement calendar
+ Perform post-settlement validations for daily settlement statements and other reports for market participants
+ Ensure compliance with all settlement control activities subject to the annual SOC1 audit including maintenance of all documentation providing evidence of performance of those activities


* Track and document progress on applicable production activities


* Assist on special projects as assigned.

Examples:
+ Tableau Report Development
+ Unit testing of the calculations
+ Member testing support
+ Update market or transmission settlement process documents


* The Settlements Intern is expected to be competent with the administrative and communication tools for word processing, spread sheet development, time keeping, etc. 


* The Settlements Intern should provide basic support to help project groups meet aggressive time schedules


* Settlements Intern is expected to embrace and promote the SPP Culture, Mission and Core Values in attitude toward stakeholder relationships, current work assignments as well as long term goals and strategic initiative of the organization.  The Settlements Intern should incorporate a fundamental working understanding of the SPP Culture Drivers, Mission and Core Values and apply this directly to all Settlements assignments and any SPP related effort, not necessarily limited to Settlements.


* Resolve data errors in the operations of settlement computations

Update market or transmission settlement process documents as changes to processes are made


* Respond to requests for data and financial analysis


* Assist Director of Settlements, Manager of Se...