Credit Risk Officer recruitment
Credit Risk Officer
Build your career in one of the fastest growing divisions in our Credit Risk Office (CRO). We are a small department and a very small team, so the successful candidate—in addition to the baseline credit officer role—will need to be flexible and hardworking enough to pick up any aspect of running the business.
Credit Suisse values internal mobility, so we’ll give you exposure to other bank functions to further your knowledge and career.
Credit Suisse
As one of the world's leading financial services group, Credit Suisse provides its clients with investment banking, private banking and asset management services worldwide. Founded in 1856, Credit Suisse has a long tradition of meeting the complex financial needs of a wide range of clients, offering advisory services, comprehensive solutions and innovative products to companies, institutional clients and high-net-worth private clients globally. The Credit Suisse Group is active in over 50 countries and employs approximately 50,000 people. Further information can be found at credit-suisse.com.
As a Credit Risk Officer – your skills and qualifications will ideally include:
Should be an experienced credit officer holding delegated approval authority, at a major investment bank, covering financial institutions. Strong plus would be recent experience of emerging markets banks.
Must have relevant university degree or equivalent, or relevant postgrad professional qualification such as the risk-focused FRM qualification, CFA, or an accountancy qualification
A plus would be familiarity with another major European language, and still positive even if not quite at full fluency
Essential skills:
• Strong analytical skills;
• Strong investment banking product knowledge, especially derivatives
• Strong knowledge and understanding of traded products master agreements, e.g. ISDA
• Strong problem solving skills.
Other required skills:
• Team player
• Self-motivated / self starting
• Leadership — Able to lead people either on client related transactions, CRM or cross business working groups, as required
• DD—Able to conduct due diligence meetings with senior client representatives unsupervised
• Strong communication skills — verbal and written fluency in English is the very minimum
• Strong negotiation skills
• Strong inter-personal skills, especially influencing and personal impact.
As a Credit Risk Officer – your main responsibilities will involve:
- Perform credit risk analysis and assign credit ratings to a portfolio of counterparties—mainly banks in various defined countries, largely developed markets but some emerging markets.
- Monitor market, macro-economic and political developments, assess their impact on credit quality of counterparties.
- Perform risk assessment of proposed transactions to be completed with counterparties in the portfolio, as well as regular risk monitoring of the existing risks in the book with these names.
- Develop and maintain knowledge of the level of credit exposure to counterparties in the portfolio as well as relevant legal documentation.
- Make credit risk decisions within assigned credit authority.
- Work closely with front office business units and other support areas (e.g. RMM, CMU and LCD) in the creation of client solutions, as required
What we will be looking for in you:
Clear communication and analytical thinking skills will prove to be an asset.
Contact:
Right place, perfect opportunity
credit-suisse.com/careers
Cultural diversity is essential to our success. As such, we employ people from more than 100 countries. Credit Suisse empowers employees to work openly and respectfully with each other and with clients, ultimately striving to deliver superior results while offering initiatives and programs to assist employees achieve a healthy work-life balance.
Credit Suisse is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in its employment decisions on the basis of any protected category.
To the extent permitted or required by applicable law, a candidate who is offered employment will be subject to a criminal record check and other background checks before the appointment is confirmed.