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. Responsibilities include monitoring credit quality of existing and new counterparties/customers, tracking exposures against maximum credit limits, ensuring collection and maintenance of adequate collateral, and reporting 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 with all levels of an organization including people with different styles and backgrounds; ability to work as a member of a team.
• Ability to assess corporate financial statements and make objective and subjective judgments about a company’s creditworthiness.
• Ability to work independently.

Preferences

• Experience with various types of collateral support documentation, including letters of credit, guarantees, surety bonds, and escrow agreements.
• Experience with developing credit analysis spreadsheet models.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401k with match fixed contributions, including a Roth and saving option. For union employees, matching contributions vary by union. For nonunion, PacifiCorp makes a fixed contribution equal to 4% of your eligible pay each year for new hires. In addition, PacifiCorp matches 100% of the first 6% you contribute.
• Life insurance
• Additional voluntary benefits, including pet insurance
• Tuition Assistance
• Mass Transit Pass for employees in Portland and Salt Lake City offices
• Generous Paid Time Off (PTO) – varies by employee type (Union or Non-Union)
• Paid short-term disability leave and long-term disability insurance
• Paid Parental Leave
• Paid Bereavement Leave
• Employee Assistance Program supporting mental and emotional wellbeing

Pay

Hiring range: $88,800 - $122,100 with a target incentive percentage of up to 15%.

Schedule

Full-time, 100% onsite in Portland, OR.

Department: CFO
Personnel Subarea: Exempt