Director, Credit Risk Management

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve Invenergy's credit risk management policies, ensuring alignment with portfolio growth, market conditions, regulatory requirements, and enterprise risk tolerance; sponsor policy enhancements as necessary.
• Lead, develop, and scale the Credit Risk Management function, including succession planning, talent development, role design, and capacity planning to support Invenergy's long-term strategic growth.
• Provide oversight and approval of counterparty credit risk assessments, including complex or high‑exposure counterparties, establishing adjudication standards and escalation protocols across the credit risk organization.
• Establish and maintain governance over credit risk data, systems, and controls, including accountability for data integrity within energy trading and risk management systems used for exposure monitoring and reporting.
• Direct the development and delivery of portfolio-level credit risk reporting, including dashboards, watchlists, and executive summaries provided to senior management and governance committees.
• Oversee enterprise-wide monitoring of counterparty credit exposure, collateral postings, and credit limits, serving as the primary escalation point for material exposure concerns and risk mitigation actions.
• Set standards for communication of credit decisions, risk assessments, and contractual security requirements, ensuring consistent, timely, and transparent engagement with internal stakeholders and external counterparties.
• Maintain accountability for margining and collateral management practices, including oversight of margin call processes with bilateral trading counterparties and wholesale energy markets.
• Monitor market dynamics, regulatory developments, and counterparty risk trends across Invenergy's multi‑national footprint, translating external developments into actionable risk insights and strategic recommendations.
• Provide senior leadership oversight of industry-wide vendor and counterparty benchmarking, including preparation and review of approval materials supporting significant credit decisions.
• Lead credit-related aspects of enabling agreement negotiations, setting strategy for credit provisions and coordinating closely with Trading and Legal to ensure alignment with risk policy and commercial objectives.
• Ensure enterprise compliance with Credit Risk, Risk Management, and related policies, embedding controls and accountability throughout credit risk operations.
• Report regularly to the Energy Risk Management Committee and other governance bodies on credit risk posture, emerging risks, policy effectiveness, and recommended actions; sponsor and defend proposed policy changes as needed.
• Required Skills:
• Bachelor's degree in Economics, Finance, Accounting, or a related field; advanced degree or professional certification (e.g., MBA, CFA) preferred.
• 10+ years of progressive experience in credit risk management, o

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Additional Information

Invenergy is North America's largest privately held developer, owner, and operator of power infrastructure. With 25 years of trusted execution, we deliver reliable, affordable energy through a diverse portfolio that includes natural gas, solar, land-based wind, energy storage, transmission, and domestic manufacturing. Headquartered in Chicago, we develop, own, and operate large scale projects that power communities and support the energy future. This position will be open for application for at least 3 calendar days from the posting date. This position will remain open for application based on business need, which may be before or after the 3-day posting window. Job Description Position Overview The Director, Credit Risk Management will report to the Senior Vice President - Risk Management and Settlements and will have enterprise accountability for the design, governance, and execution of the Company's credit risk framework for Invenergy's largest collaborators - from suppliers delivering to our development organization to bilateral trading counterparties for our market hedging activities for Invenergy's operating portfolio. To do so, the Director will lead and develop a high-performing credit risk organization, establishing standards, delegating authority and ensuring consistent, disciplined execution of counterparty risk assessments, credit adjudication and managing margin call activity with trading counterparties and wholesale power markets. The Director will lead the organization of data insights to internal stakeholders and senior leadership, monitor emerging industry trends and serve as primary credit risk representative in contract approval processes. As a senior member of the Risk Management team, Director will partner with and advise senior leaders from Invenergy's development, procurement, project management and trading teams influencing commercial structures, contract terms, and counterparty strategy in accordance with Invenergy's risk policies and serve as escalation point for material counterparty risk decisions.

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