Role: Credit Manager AVP
Location: London
Duration: March 2025
Hybrid: 3 days in the office.
Accountabilities & Responsibilities
1. Exercise strong risk assessment methodology toward new transactions and management of a portfolio of FI clients (including Problem Assets), across a broad variety of sectors, geographies, and asset/product types, seeking guidance from more senior staff/management as appropriate.
2. Work as a trusted partner with Front Office deal teams to ensure delivery to clients whilst maintaining high credit quality. Through good engagement with line management, articulate CD risk perception and appetite for a transaction in line with bank policy and procedures, manage the interaction and communication with front office teams, attend meetings with clients, with input from more senior colleagues where necessary.
3. Experience and capability to take a standard FI transaction from inception to approval, with some guidance and supervision where appropriate.
4. Flexibility to work to tight deadlines under pressure (including ability to work outside of contracted hours from time to time/as workflow demands), to give prompt responses to customers.
5. Judgement to elevate issues to more senior colleagues where collaborating with other risk and compliance functions is appropriate to ensure enterprise-wide view of risk is considered.
6. Assist other members of the team by proactively taking work in a manner which ensures work is fairly distributed, particularly in times of strong workflow/staff absences.
Skills & Knowledge, Qualifications
1. Degree level education and/or relevant professional qualifications (eg: ACA, ACCA, ACT, CFA), and a track record of continued learning and development.
2. Experience in a credit management role within a major international bank.
3. Preference for candidates who have seen a number of different products/transaction types and have some experience of varying credit market conditions.
4. Good working knowledge of Banks, Sovereigns, and Non-Bank FIs.
5. High level of IT literacy, strong written and verbal communication skills (supporting preparation of succinct and focused credit papers), and strong interpersonal skills (supporting collaboration/teamwork).
6. Some experience of problem asset management/workouts and experience within a Front Office role is desirable.
7. Have begun to develop a network of professional relationships within the financial, legal and corporate communities and up to date knowledge of trends in FI credit markets across EMEA.
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