Credit Portfolio Specialists

Job title: Credit Portfolio Specialist
Job Category: Finance, Credit, Market Trading Risk
Location: Canary Wharf, London

About US: Our business is the exploration, production, refining, trading and distribution of energy. This is what we do, and we do it on a truly global scale.

The Trading division is our face to the traded markets in oil, gas, power, chemicals and finance. Trading's role is to enhance Group value through distinctive supply, commodity trading, risk management and information technology skills underpinned by a world class finance, control and compliance infrastructure.

We foster a diverse and inclusive workplace for all employees. We are proud of our stance on fairness, equal opportunity and meritocracy, which focuses on all of our employees reaching their full potential.

Role synopsis: This role sits within a newly formed Credit Portfolio Management team within our trading business and will help leadership better understand its current and forward-looking credit risk profile through analytics, modeling, reporting and data visualization – helping to inform tactical business opportunities as well as longer-term credit risk management strategies.

Supporting both the trading ($10B+) and Group-level ($50B) credit portfolios, this position combines high-level reporting and analytics accountabilities with senior-level exposure across regions and business segments within the Group.

Key accountabilities:
- Oversight and management of credit portfolio pricing systems Credit portfolio analytics, modeling and stress-testing;
- Maintenance of market-driven credit curves and transaction pricing tools;
- Integration and reporting of Group Trading credit exposures, including development of new data visualization tools as required;
- Effective partnership across multiple business segments and regions.

Essential education:
- Degree qualified

Essential experience and job requirements:
- Experience in developing advanced quantitative models and tools in support of complex portfolios and business needs.
- High degree of capability and comfort working with large volumes of data in Excel, Business Objects or similar tools, including the integration of data across multiple spreadsheets and databases.
- Strong proficiency in building charts, graphs and dashboards, and in leveraging new data visualization tools, to effectively convey the story within the data to a broader audience.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (oral and written) and a comfort level in working effectively with individual at various organizational levels.
- Comfort level in working autonomously, sometimes under highpressured and fast-paced circumstances, and often times with limited information and a fair degree of ambiguity.
- Self-directed high performer with a relentless attention to detail.

Desirable criteria qualifications:
- Credit portfolio / credit markets analytics experience.
- Deep familiarity with Trading transactional data and systems.
- Foreign language proficiency.

November 12, 2013 • Tags:  • Posted in: Financial

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