Job Description

Institutional Credit Management (ICM) works closely with our ICG businesses to serve as a critical component of our First Line of defense for wholesale and counterparty credit risk management and also with our Independent Risk partners to ensure best-in-class risk and controls, as well as client responsiveness. Key responsibilities include portfolio analysis, documentation, risk identification, management, monitoring, administration, and stress testing.

The ICM Portfolio Associate (PA) will report to the Portfolio Manager for (Early Warning Credit Management - EWCM or Portfolio Credit Monitoring - PCM) and will be help manage the processes and systems for the detection of early signals of distress within a specific wholesale portfolio, through a selected number of metrics and indicators for Early Warning, Limits and Covenants.

In this role, the PA will be responsible for liaising business partners, and assisting in executing the monitoring strategies and priorities, as well as contributing to the calibration of alerts, metrics and indicators for maximum efficacy.

The PA should be resourceful with the ability to produce recommendations to the portfolio owners that may include portfolio reviews, stress tests, risk appetite and underwriting criteria recalibrations, reclassification of facilities, risk rating changes among others.

Key Responsibilities:
Assisting portfolio management and consistent with industry leading practices and conforms to all internal credit procedures/policies, and all related regulatory expectations
Continuous engagement across ICM and with ICG businesses
Help execute plans, strategy and objectives for EWCM / PCM in an effective and innovative fashion; assess and report progress in meetings objectives including promotion of a healthy working culture
Coordinate with the Heads of EWCM / PCM, ICM, and key members of governance forums as appropriate to address and escalate emerging risk concerns, and to share best practices
Assist in developing/enhancing Learning, Develop and Training for EWCM and PCM;
Support PCM, ICM, and WCR on internal projects and initiatives
Support PCM and ICM Voice of the Employee (VOE) initiatives
Travel (less than 25 PERCENT )

Experience and requirements for the role:
Ability to meet deadlines due to business needs
Independent problem solving skills
Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with strong attention to detail.
Understanding of corporate finance and bank products

Qualifications
Bachelors degree in Business Administration, Finance or Economics
An MBA, CPA, CFA preferred, and formal credit training is a plus
Financial Services experience (min 4 years) including credit experience in Banking or Risk Management
Education: MBA/ PGDMr r r r r r r Any Graduate
Industry: Banking

Skills Required