Business Credit Analyst recruitment
Macquarie Group (Macquarie) is a global provider of banking, financial, advisory, investment and funds management services, with over 14,600 staff operating in 27 countries.
Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities (FICC) is involved in a broad range of financial markets trading activities. Its services range from 24-hour trading in the Australian dollar and base metals to managing the entire treasury operation for a client. A focus on adding value through innovative product and superior service continues to provide opportunities for selective expansion in a global market.
FICC provides services in:
- Metals and energy capital
- Energy markets
- Metals markets
- Agricultural markets
- Fixed income, currency and credit markets
- Futures
- Environmental financial products
- Asian and emerging markets
The predominant FICC client base consists of financial institutions and significant commodity producers and consumers. With structuring, sales and trading professionals in Australia, the Americas, the UK, Europe, Asia and the Middle East, FICC offers quality trading, financing and risk management solutions to meet client needs.
The Macquarie Group is seeking a talented and highly motivated individual to join the Energy Markets Division (EMD) in Houston. As a member of the EMD's business credit team, all of whom are based in Houston, the candidate will work as a credit analyst covering a range of energy-based transactions. Products covered will include physical and financial power, oil and gas in North America. This position requires the candidate to be comfortable actively communicating with traders, originators, lawyers, business credit and corporate credit personnel. Your ability and proven academic record will be key to the success of the role and our business.
Key Responsibilities
- Trade documentation initialisation, review and negotiation of credit risk and other risk clauses
- Research, information gathering and preparation of credit memos in order to secure timely credit approvals from business credit or corporate credit approvers.
- Annual review of existing credit limits, market performance and outlook of counterparties
- Real time, on-going and self-initiated monitoring of counterparty developments including the review of and seeking approval for new transactions
- Proactively engage with business units and colleagues to understand underlying needs and opportunities, and identify innovative solutions in a timely manner
- Assisting in the structuring and objective analysis of new complex transactions
Key Qualifications
- Ideally have some existing knowledge of the North American market, especially pertaining to energy trading or energy lending transactions
- Strong commercial orientation and understanding of business and risk-related issues
- Qualifications in finance, economics, engineering, or other quantitative disciplines, ideally with postgraduate studies
- Persuasive communication skills (both written and verbal) and confidence when being challenged
- Ability to build strong, open, dialogue-based relationships with relevant businesses, clients and colleagues
- Pro-active, flexible and outgoing
- Comfortable planning and re-prioritising workload in an unpredictable environment
- This opportunity would suit a highly analytical and commercially oriented individual who enjoys working in a challenging and complex environment.
Macquarie is an equal opportunity employer (M/F/D/V).