Senior Credit Analyst

About the role

Oversees credit risk profiles of wholesale energy and structured transaction counterparties, commercial and industrial accounts, transmission customers, and vendors including monitoring of credit quality of existing and new counterparties/customers, monitoring exposures against maximum credit limits, ensuring collection and maintenance of adequate collateral as applicable, and reporting of credit risk exposures and mitigations to management.

Responsibilities

• Conduct credit reviews and recommend credit decisions, exposure limits, collateral requirements, and risk mitigation measures within delegated authority.
• Prepare reports on credit quality, exposures, collateral, and available credit.
• Review, administer, and monitor collateral support arrangements including letters of credit, guarantees, surety bonds, escrow agreements, and other credit support instruments.
• Prepare daily margin requirements, periodic risk analysis, and ad hoc reports.
• Prepare weekly, monthly, quarterly, and ad-hoc credit reports for credit and senior management, including those needed for quarterly disclosure requirements for financial reporting.
• Manage credit specifications on online trading platforms.
• Perform credit reviews utilizing third-party credit ratings and financial statements to determine the degree of risk involved in extending credit and propose recommendations for maximum allowed exposure, trading rules, and minimum required collateral.
• Prepare and maintain detailed credit analyses on existing and prospective counterparties, customers, and vendors.
• Develop and implement the established credit policies or guidelines for credit investigation, monthly reports, monitoring, and risk mitigation of those business units served by the credit department.
• Recommend process and reporting solutions and improvements to the director of credit and commodity risk governance committee.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Business, Economics, Engineering, Finance, or a related field; or the equivalent combination of education and experience.
• A minimum of five years experience in credit or risk management or a related field.
• Data gathering, analysis, interpretation, trending, forecasting, and modeling skills.
• Ability to work with internal and external customers in a fast-paced trading environment.
• Communication and interpersonal skills including ability to consult with internal and external customers regarding matters/issues which may be sensitive in nature.
• Ability to work