Executive Director – Credit Risk recruitment

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage a portfolio of EMEA loans (covering a variety of industries), identifying risk themes and recommending risk appetite and strategies

• Interact with key stakeholders in investment banking, capital markets, credit committee members, market risk managers and portfolio managers

• Analyse all credit aspects of debt proposals, including macroeconomic, systemic, regulatory, jurisdictional, market and business risk, as well as transaction value proposition. Using the results of the analysis, assign risk ratings and size risk appetite and approve exposures.

• Recommend transaction structures, make clear recommendations to credit commitment committee on each loan proposal

• Provide periodic reporting on the risks in the loan portfolio, adjust/size risk appetite/limits, highlight trends, make presentation to senior risk officers

Key Skills:

• Exposure to underwriting leveraged buyouts is essential

• Knowledge/understanding of key economic and political drivers in the EMEA region

• Knowledge in RAROC, Basel III capital treatment of loans

• Familiar with risks associated with derivatives, FX, interest rate products

• Familiar with legal documentation and risk issues, including LMA loan documents, ISDAs, CSAs, netting and credit risk mitigating features

• Previous credit sanctioning authority is essential. Superior, verifiable track record of deals approved/declined

• Professional certifications (CFA, CPA. etc.) or MBA are strongly desired