Contracts Analyst - Senior​/Principal Financial Risk Analyst

Contracts Analyst

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The Contracts Analyst is responsible for supporting the full contract lifecycle, including drafting, reviewing, analyzing, negotiating, and managing contracts to ensure compliance with company policies, legal requirements, and business objectives. This role partners closely with Structuring and Origination, Front Office Trading, Legal, Procurement, Finance, Risk Management, and business stakeholders to mitigate contractual risks and support operational efficiency.

Job Overview

The addition of a Contracts Analyst is critical to support increasing contractual complexity, regulatory requirements, and operational demands across energy trading, settlements, and contracts functions. This role will reduce financial risk, improve contract lifecycle efficiency, and strengthen compliance—particularly in preparation for evolving market structures such as EDAM.

Drafted, analyzed, and redlined NDAs, MSAs, and SOWs while ensuring alignment with legal standards and commercial objectives. Ability to read, interpret, and analyze contracts for risk and compliance. Identify unfavorable or non-standard terms. Understand clause interaction and downstream impacts. Summarize contract terms and provide recommendations to stakeholders.

This role supports power wholesale market management by identifying and analyzing potential contractual risks, strong knowledge and familiarity with master agreements, ensuring contracts comply with applicable laws, regulations, and internal policies. Support regulatory, audit, and risk management reviews and monitor changes in contract related policies or standards. Protects the organization's financial, legal, operational, and reputation interests.

Key Responsibilities

Responsibilities for this role are determined by P-level and are outlined separately below.

Responsibilities – Senior Financial Risk Analyst (Grade 7 / P3)

Compliance and Risk Management

Ensure contracts comply with applicable laws, regulations, and internal policies

Support regulatory, audit, and risk management reviews

Monitor changes in contract related policies or standards

Contracts Terms Coordinate the negotiation of contracts terms with vendors and counter parties (including guarantees, letters of contracts, contracts support annex, etc.).

Enterprise Risk Management Develops contract risk definitions; works with management to design, implement and sustain an effective risk management program and coordinates efforts across the organization to ensure alignment with program objectives.

Risk Analysis Conducts analyses and develops reports across complex data sets requiring unique/new analysis approaches; develops reports containing recommendations for management and works with internal clients to implement approved recommendations. Design and implement controls for contract accuracy and settlement alignment. Support SOX controls including contract review, approval workflows, and documentation. Ensure segregation of duties and proper approval authority in contract execution.

Regulatory Analyses Evaluates contracts to ensure compliance with applicable laws, regulations, and regulatory expectations throughout the contract lifecycle.

Data Management Tools Leads increasing efficiency of business processes (automated and manual) and data gathering/processing for analysis and reporting purposes.

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