What are the responsibilities and job description for the Contracts Analyst - Senior/Principal Financial Risk Analyst position at Portland General Electric?
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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.
This position is open to two P-levels: Senior Financial Risk Analyst (Grade 7 / P3 – Career Professional) and Principal Financial Risk Analyst (Grade 8 / P4 – Specialist Professional). The level at which an offer is made will be determined based on the selected candidate’s qualifications, skills, and experience.
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 counterparties (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.
Contracts Management
Maintains, makes recommendations for improvement and updates contracts policies, procedures and scoring matrices; trains others in contracts review and analysis; performs contracts risk analyses; makes recommendations to management on appropriate actions; negotiates and prepares letters of agreements.
Responsibilities – Principal Financial Risk Analyst (Grade 8 / P4)
Contracts Risk Assessment
Leveraging the analysis of others, identifies broad risks to the company and leads the development and implementation of recommended mitigation strategies; establishes and maintains department's operating plans and budgets related to specific mitigation strategies; works, leads, and/or coordinates work with outside specialists and effectively leads/teaches others how to interpret and perform complex analysis.
Contracts Terms
Provides oversight/leadership to team on negotiating contracts terms with vendors and counterparties (including guarantees, letters of agreements, contracts support annex, etc.).
Enterprise Risk Management
Develops common definitions of risk for the entire organization; works with executive management to design, implement and sustain an effective risk management framework and program and coordinates efforts across the organization to ensure alignment with program objectives; reports out to executive senior leadership and Board of Directors.
Risk Analysis
Leads analyses and report development for companywide risk analysis assessments; leads analyses, reporting and implementation of counterparty/vendor contracts review and risk mitigation.
Regulatory Analyses
Evaluates contracts to ensure compliance with applicable laws, regulations, and regulatory expectations throughout the contract lifecycle.
Data Management Tools
Serves as an expert resource in the organization's risk management tools.
Contracts Management
Serves as an expert resource and consultant in the organization on how to analyze contracts risk and develop contracts risk mitigation strategies; maintains, makes recommendations for improvement, and updates corporate contracts policies, procedures and scoring matrices; trains others in contracts review and analysis; performs contracts analyses and makes recommendations to management on appropriate actions; negotiates and prepares letters of agreements.
Education / Experience / Certifications
Education
Requires a bachelor’s degree in accounting/finance/economics/legal studies or other related field or equivalent experience.
Experience
Functional Competencies
Proficiency by level:
Advanced Financial Modeling Skills And Experience Using Microsoft Excel
General Competencies
Proficiency by level:
Decision-making skills
Written and oral communication skills
Negotiation and diplomacy skills
Organization and prioritization skills
Analytical thinking skills
Physical, Schedule/Attendance, and Cognitive Demands
The following requirements apply to both P-levels of this position.
Office
Hybrid: onsite 3 days per week, and remote 2 days per week
Actual total compensation, including a performance based incentive bonus, is commensurate with experience, skills, qualifications, education, training, and internal equity.
PGE believes in rewarding dedicated performance. We provide a total rewards package that is designed to reward your contributions to the company, and, at the same time, support your well-being and professional development, both now and into the future. To find out more, click here.
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.
This position is open to two P-levels: Senior Financial Risk Analyst (Grade 7 / P3 – Career Professional) and Principal Financial Risk Analyst (Grade 8 / P4 – Specialist Professional). The level at which an offer is made will be determined based on the selected candidate’s qualifications, skills, and experience.
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 counterparties (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.
Contracts Management
Maintains, makes recommendations for improvement and updates contracts policies, procedures and scoring matrices; trains others in contracts review and analysis; performs contracts risk analyses; makes recommendations to management on appropriate actions; negotiates and prepares letters of agreements.
Responsibilities – Principal Financial Risk Analyst (Grade 8 / P4)
Contracts Risk Assessment
Leveraging the analysis of others, identifies broad risks to the company and leads the development and implementation of recommended mitigation strategies; establishes and maintains department's operating plans and budgets related to specific mitigation strategies; works, leads, and/or coordinates work with outside specialists and effectively leads/teaches others how to interpret and perform complex analysis.
Contracts Terms
Provides oversight/leadership to team on negotiating contracts terms with vendors and counterparties (including guarantees, letters of agreements, contracts support annex, etc.).
Enterprise Risk Management
Develops common definitions of risk for the entire organization; works with executive management to design, implement and sustain an effective risk management framework and program and coordinates efforts across the organization to ensure alignment with program objectives; reports out to executive senior leadership and Board of Directors.
Risk Analysis
Leads analyses and report development for companywide risk analysis assessments; leads analyses, reporting and implementation of counterparty/vendor contracts review and risk mitigation.
Regulatory Analyses
Evaluates contracts to ensure compliance with applicable laws, regulations, and regulatory expectations throughout the contract lifecycle.
Data Management Tools
Serves as an expert resource in the organization's risk management tools.
Contracts Management
Serves as an expert resource and consultant in the organization on how to analyze contracts risk and develop contracts risk mitigation strategies; maintains, makes recommendations for improvement, and updates corporate contracts policies, procedures and scoring matrices; trains others in contracts review and analysis; performs contracts analyses and makes recommendations to management on appropriate actions; negotiates and prepares letters of agreements.
Education / Experience / Certifications
Education
Requires a bachelor’s degree in accounting/finance/economics/legal studies or other related field or equivalent experience.
Experience
- P3: Typically five or more years in related field
- P4: Typically eight or more years in related field
Functional Competencies
Proficiency by level:
- P3: Advanced
- P4: Advanced
Advanced Financial Modeling Skills And Experience Using Microsoft Excel
General Competencies
Proficiency by level:
- P3: Intermediate to Advanced
- P4: Advanced
Decision-making skills
Written and oral communication skills
Negotiation and diplomacy skills
Organization and prioritization skills
Analytical thinking skills
Physical, Schedule/Attendance, and Cognitive Demands
The following requirements apply to both P-levels of this position.
- Driving/travel/commute: Daily within service territory - Frequently (at least once a week or more)
- Driving/travel/commute: Overnight inside/outside the service territory - Occasionally (one to two times a month or less)
- Computer use (use computer regularly for entire work shift)
Office
Hybrid: onsite 3 days per week, and remote 2 days per week
Actual total compensation, including a performance based incentive bonus, is commensurate with experience, skills, qualifications, education, training, and internal equity.
PGE believes in rewarding dedicated performance. We provide a total rewards package that is designed to reward your contributions to the company, and, at the same time, support your well-being and professional development, both now and into the future. To find out more, click here.