Risk Analyst or a Senior Risk Analyst
$89,669–$134,992 year
HybridBoise, Idaho, United States
Job Summary
Identify, assess, and monitor Idaho Power's market and credit risk exposures across energy trading, commodity transactions, and strategic business activities. Ensure compliance with risk policies and regulatory requirements while performing valuation and exposure analysis to monitor counterparty creditworthiness. Recommend risk mitigation strategies such as collateral, guarantees, and other credit support arrangements. For Senior roles, provide technical leadership, serve as subject matter experts in industry agreements, mentor team members, and act as the primary risk resource during the manager's absence. Work independently with minimal supervision to defend decision-making criteria and balance commercial responsiveness with prudent credit expectations.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in an analytical field (finance, accounting, economics, or a related field)
- 3 or more years of directly related experience credit, risk, or commodity risk management including in-depth analysis of financial statements
- Ability to Perform quantitative and qualitative financial analysis
- Ability to Analyze financial health of counterparties
- Ability to Meet deadlines and prioritize work
- Ability to Defend decision-making criteria with other departments or counterparties
- Ability to Balance commercial responsiveness with prudent credit and/or risk expectations
- Ability to Work in a time sensitive environment with the ability to adapt to changing needs
- Works independently with minimal supervision and intervention
- Demonstrated ability to work confidently with senior leaders or Traders to resolve issues
- Demonstrated ability to influence others to meet desired outcomes and deadlines
- Ability to Analyzing documents and data for conformance to established policies and procedures
Desired Qualifications
- Master of Business Administration (MBA)
- Professional experience in risk management or back-office banking operations supporting credit and risk management functions, including in-depth analysis of financial statements, evaluation of creditworthiness, risk monitoring, exposure assessment, and compliance with credit policies
- 7 years or more of industry specific experience in credit risk management
- Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA)
- Knowledge of Derivatives, energy trading, collateral management, finance, and accounting
- Knowledge of Utility finance/credit, NAESB, ISDA, WSPP, netting agreements, long-form confirmations, corporate guarantees, letters of credit and other related agreements with counterparties
- Knowledge of Collateral management practices, including assessment of unsecured exposure, collateral thresholds, negotiating credit support provisions, margining requirements, and the impact of collateral on counterparty credit risk
- Excellent organizational, planning, verbal and written communications with strong attention to detail
- Expert-level complex risk scenarios analysis and works effectively with internal and external partners
- Strong negotiation skills and ability to draft contracts and agreements
- Experience with VBA, SQL, and Power BI
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