Olga Sokolova

Runs CIRA's rating process. She is responsible for analysing the financial statements of rated entities, collecting market data and sector reviews, applying the agency's rating methodologies and preparing draft rating reports and rationales for the rating committee.

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Head of the Rating Department
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Olha Sokolova heads the rating department of Credit Intelligence Rating Agency (CIRA) and chairs the agency's Rating Committee. She is responsible for analysing the financial statements of rated entities, collecting market data and sector reviews, applying the agency's rating methodologies and preparing draft rating reports and rationales for consideration by the rating committee.

She joined the agency in November 2024, initially as a rating analyst, while CIRA was preparing for authorization: she worked on the internal rating methodologies and their back-testing.

For two decades she taught at the Department of Corporate Finance and Controlling of Kyiv National Economic University named after Vadym Hetman: corporate financial analysis, business finance, financial management, management of corporate financial rehabilitation and crisis financial management.

Her practical experience combines corporate finance, internal audit and work with contractual risk: documentary support and accounting of warehouse operations, then internal audit at the State Food and Grain Corporation of Ukraine JSC, and later the analysis department of the property developer Standard Engineering Group.

Independence of the rating process. Ratings are decided by a collegial rating committee, whose decisions are recorded in minutes. Olha Sokolova takes no part in fee negotiations with rated entities.

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Experience

Position: Head of Rating Department, Chair of the Rating Committee

At CIRA: since 1 November 2024 as a rating analyst; Head of Rating Department since 12 January 2026

Responsible for: Analysis of rated entities' financial statements · Market data and sector reviews · Application of rating methodologies · Draft rating reports and rationales · Chairing the Rating Committee

Not involved in: Fee negotiations with rated entities

Previous positions:

  • Rating analyst, Credit Intelligence Rating Agency LLC – 2024–2026
  • Deputy head, then head of the analysis department, Standard Engineering Group – 2024–2025
  • Internal auditor, State Food and Grain Corporation of Ukraine JSC – 2023–2024
  • Specialist, senior specialist, deputy head of the department for documentary support of warehouse operations, State Food and Grain Corporation of Ukraine JSC – 2020–2023
  • Lecturer, Department of Corporate Finance and Controlling, KNEU named after Vadym Hetman – 2000–2020

Education:

  • Yuri Kondratyuk Poltava State Technical University – accounting and audit, qualification: economist, 1994–1999
  • Postgraduate studies, Kyiv National Economic University – 1999–2002