Hedge Fund Credit Analyst

• Senior member of the specialist credit risk team, responsible for providing and maintaining high quality credit risk assessment and ongoing monitoring of Hedge Fund clients and exposures in the EMEA region.

• Pro-active management of a distinct portfolio of Hedge Fund counterparts to minimise credit losses.

• Front-to-end credit risk management including counterparty financial analysis, determination of internal risk rating and regular monitoring of counterparty performance to identify any emerging credit risk

• Set risk appetite on a single counterparty basis and contribute to the setting of risk appetite for the Hedge Fund sector

• Build and maintain strong relationships with the Front Office.

• Actively participate and help implementing the change agenda in Credit Risk

Play a key role in developing future areas of focus regarding appetite to risk, management of client portfolios and embedding new ways of working within Credit Risk. Key objectives are to:

• Build / foster relationships with external parties (e.g. counterparts at other banks, rating agencies, etc)

• Clearly articulate and express risk appetite for single counterparties and sector.

• Active engagement and contribution to Credit Risk's change agenda

• Have an active dialogue with regulators to identify respective sectoral / regional trends and risks

Manage the credit risk profile for a portfolio of clients and act on negative trends at an early stage. Key objectives are to:

• Undertake credit analysis and review of Hedge Fund and related clients (i.e. prime brokers and other AIM's, leveraged vehicles), and transactions.

• Participate and lead originator and transaction level due diligence, providing risk analysis and recommendations for new transactions to relevant sanctioning officer and undertaking ongoing deal performance monitoring and annual reviews.

 

The ideal Candidate will have:

Credit Risk Management and Control experience appropriate to a financial services organisation.

• Extensive experience within the Hedge Fund credit market.

• Worked within a regulatory regime applicable to operational business in the financial services industry.

• Demonstrated ability to work with the business.

• A proven ability to drive forward automation of portfolio reporting and stress testing systems and methodologies.

• Exercised Delegated Credit Authority

• Experience of leading client due diligence meetings

• Good working knowledge of credit grading models

May 7, 2013 • Tags:  • Posted in: Financial

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