Emily Losen Ricketts

About Emily Losen Ricketts

Emily Losen Ricketts is a project management, accounting, and finance professional with fifteen years of experience between the energy and utility sectors and the finance sectors of fund administration, asset servicing, and asset management. Emily is skilled in managing scope, cost, time, and quality of projects, including in-house projects, customer specific projects, data conversions, and company-wide strategy initiatives. Currently, Emily is a Project Manager in the Project Management Office of Utility Operations for Omaha Public Power District (OPPD). She is also the President on the Project Management Community board. Before OPPD, Emily was a Vice President/Manager of Client Implementation for Northern Trust\'s Front Office Solutions in which she managed a team who implemented complex asset owners onto Northern Trust’s performance reporting software. Previously at Northern Trust, Emily was a Vice President/Specialist of Client Implementation for Hedge Fund Services in which she specialized in the project management of complex launches and conversions in the back and middle office space for hedge fund and institutional clients. Prior to joining Northern Trust, Emily was an Associate Director and the Group Manager of Implementation for Cortland Capital Market Services. In this role, she simultaneously oversaw numerous private equity, real estate, credit, and hedge fund launches and conversions. Before Cortland, Emily served as a Senior Fund Accountant at Jackson National Asset Management where she monitored the daily NAV process of numerous funds and their monthly close procedures. Prior to her tenure at Jackson, Emily held a Senior Associate role in the Investment Accounting department at Guggenheim Partners, in which she specialized in swaps and swaptions. She began her career in fund administration at Gemini Fund Services where she worked as a Fund Accountant. In the past few years, Emily has acquired several project management, accounting, and finance certifications. Emily has earned the Certified Management Accountant (CMA), Project Management Professional (PMP), Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Scrum Product Owner Certified (SPOC), Certified in Strategy and Competitive Analysis (CSCA), Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, and IMA Data Analytics & Visualization Fundamentals certifications. Emily also received a Master of Business Administration (MBA) and a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in English Literature from the University of Nebraska at Omaha. She is an active member in the Institute of Management Accountants and Project Management Institute organizations.

Experience

1. Pmo Project Manager - Utility Operations

   Omaha Public Power District

   Jan 2025 — Present · Omaha, NE, US

   Omaha Public Power District (OPPD) is the twelfth largest public power utility in the country, serving nearly people across thirteen counties in Nebraska, which is the only state with all public power providers. As the demand for electricity grows nationwide, OPPD’s rates have remained competitive and have stayed 30% lower than the national average. This increase in demand, along with an increasing need for a more flexible and reliable electrical grid, has led OPPD to make significant investments in their utility operations and generation projects in recent years. • Demonstrate leadership presence on in-person meetings, calls, and walkdowns with contractors, vendors, and project team members and track action items for each responsible party • Restructured the contractual list of outstanding items still due from EPC contractors to ensure all obligations were met and liaised between the EPC contractors and sub-contractors to recover schedule slippage after joining the Turtle Creek Station and Standing Bear Lake Station power plant projects in their final year• Partnered with third-party consultants to resolve numerous issues from missing documentation to incorrectly marked-up drawings which led to hundreds of items being uploaded correctly into the document register on Aconex on these projects• Advised and directed the department’s data analysts on the transition from Smartsheet to Power BI for the PMO’s project dashboards

Education

• University of Nebraska at Omaha

  Bachelor's Degree, English Literature

  2003 — 2007

• University of Nebraska at Omaha

  Master of Business Administration (MBA)

  2007 — 2010

Skills

• Business Relationship Management
• Futures
• Account Management
• Change Management
• Staff Supervision
• Swaps
• Sub-Advisor Oversight
• Fund of Funds
• Relationship Management
• Auditing
• Stocks
• Collateral Management
• Prime Brokerage
• Sungard
• Investments
• Securities
• Stock Market
• Training
• Onboarding
• Microsoft Excel
• Etfs
• Leadership
• Program Management
• Centrally Cleared Products
• Interest Rate Swaps
• Fund Accounting
• Investor Relations
• Financial Services
• Project Management
• Derivatives
• Bank Loans
• Financial Analysis
• Private Equity
• Fund Services
• Kyc Procedures
• Fixed Income
• Currency Swaps
• Technical Writing
• Project Planning
• Project Implementation