Senior Credit Risk Manager – Financial Institutions recruitment

Our client is a leading global multinational with a market leading presence in their core business areas. They are currently looking to recruit an accomplished Credit Risk professional to work in their regional head office in Dubai. Answering directly through to the Regional Head of Credit Risk, this position will be a highly visible and will enable the successful applicant to be exposed to a broad variety of markets and responsibilities. A summary is noted below.

• Proactively manage a portfolio of countries, conducting credit risk assessments, and making recommendations, on new and existing clients.

• Institutional risk research, analysis, rating and forecasting, of new and existing clients.

• Recommend and undertake bank meetings for the portfolio with senior executives/board level to discuss, inter alia, strategy, earnings, balance sheet composition, funding, treasury activities and risk profiles.

• Conduct sovereign risk research, and apply expert knowledge of the banking systems in the relevant portfolio and knowledge of the credit and systemic risks inherent in those systems.

• Monitor programme risk exposures and initiate risk mitigation strategies as appropriate.

• Recommend and participate in implementation of risk control measures for failing or failed clients

• Assist in the development of global credit policy to ensure that best practice is followed and that the region remains in compliance with internal and external audit requirements.

Given the core responsibilities, applicants will need to demonstrate expertise in credit analysis and have the ability to develop processes and controls to provide management assurance. Since the focus of the position will be towards the Financial Institutional client base, all applicants must currently be delivering in a role significantly focussed in this area.

All applicants will be of graduate calibre and will have significant work experience in a financial services, blue chip retail or service sector organisation. Given the culture of the business, an innovative and creative thinker will be preferred.

If this position is of initial interest, please contact Matt Crocombe of Barclay Simpson on + 971 (0)55 608 7108 or mc@barclaysimpson.com