Credit Risk Analyst

<strong>Your Job<br><br></strong>The Credit Risk Analyst supports the assessment and monitoring of credit risk across a diverse corporate portfolio. In addition to foundational counterparty‑level credit analysis, this role places particular emphasis on identifying and evaluating risk concentrations—by obligor, industry, geography, and other relevant dimensions—to support portfolio‑level risk oversight. The analyst works closely with senior credit analysts and risk leaders to support profitable risk taking.<br><br>This role is designed for early‑career professionals and emphasizes foundational credit analysis, data interpretation, and disciplined risk thinking, with opportunities to progressively take on more complex exposure and judgment‑based responsibilities.<br><br><strong>What You Will Do<br><br></strong><ul><li>Credit Risk Analysis: Analyze counterparty financial statements and interpret key credit metrics to identify trends, strengths, and risks. Collaborate with internal risk team members to understand, communicate, and optimize risks.</li><li>Portfolio and Concentration Risk Analysis: Support the identification and monitoring of credit risk concentrations across the Koch portfolio, including counterparty, geography, industry, or financial risk factors. Analyze trends in exposure growth, utilization, and risk ratings. Highlight emerging concentration risks and shifts in portfolio composition. Support scenario or stress analyses for concentrated risk dimensions.</li><li>Analytics and Reporting: Support recurring risk reports, dashboards, and ad-hoc analyses. Ensure accuracy and consistency of credit data. Recommend areas of improvement. Analytics tools include data warehouses, Alteryx, and PowerBI.</li><li>Learning and Development: Learn broad application of the Koch risk philosophy through training, knowledge‑sharing sessions, or rotational learning opportunities across other risk disciplines (e.g., market risk, operational risk, insurance).</li><li>Communication and Critical Thinking: Demonstrate strong communication skills and excellent critical thinking abilities to effectively collaborate with stakeholders, analyze complex data, and provide valuable insights.<br><br><br></li></ul><strong>Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)<br><br></strong><ul><li>Experience with Microsoft Office tools including Word, PowerPoint, and Excel (Ex: pivot tables, data analysis, formula creation, etc.)</li><li>Ability to interpret financial statements and basic accounting concepts</li><li>Experience translating market trends and communicating impacts through written or verbal channels in a classroom or professional setting</li><li>A willingness to learn or experience working in large sets of data utilizing technologies such as Power BI, SQL, Python, etc.<br><br><br></li></ul><strong>What Will Put You Ahead<br><br></strong><ul><li>Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, economics, or similar degree</li><li>Exposure to analyzing corporate financial statements or credit analysis</li><li>Experience with data visualization or reporting tools (Ex: Tableau, Alteryx, Power BI, etc.)<br><br><br></li></ul><em>At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.<br><br></em><strong>Hiring Philosophy<br><br></strong>All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.<br><br><strong>Who We Are<br><br></strong>Koch creates and innovates a wide spectrum of products and services that make life better. Our work spans a vast number of industries across the world, including engineered technology, refining, chemicals and polymers, pulp and paper, glass, electronics and many more. Headquartered in Wichita, Kansas, Koch employs about 120,000 employees across the globe.<br><br>At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.<br><br><strong>Our Benefits<br><br></strong>Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.<br><br>Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.<br><br><strong>Equal Opportunities<br><br></strong>Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. 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