Senior Credit Risk Manager – Saudi Arabia recruitment
Our client is one of the leading commercial banks in Saudi Arabia. With strong lines of business in Corporate and Commercial banking as well as Treasury, they are viewed as both an extremely stable and progressive banking group. They are currently looking to recruit a Senior Credit Risk Manager to join their Riyadh office. Answering directly through to the CRO, this is a newly created role and one that will have responsibility to manage business banking credit risk management. The position will manage business banking credit risk management encompassing lending activities to small business and medium enterprises.
The key responsibilities will be varied, but the successful applicant will need to formulate and develop credit risk policy and enforce controls that ensure transactions are carried out in accordance with approved policies/ limits and in compliance with regulatory and legal requirements. They will also need to provide technical underwriting and analytic skills in the small and emerging corporate lines of business. Responsibility for the creation, maintenance, monitoring and control of underwriting and portfolio monitoring activity in support of the bank’s small and emerging corporate business portfolio will also be a key requirement.
Applicants will need have a minimum of five years experience in a program based lending and score card driven underwriting environment. They will also need to have excellent knowledge of and experience with underwriting analyses, including primary pricing methodologies. On offer is an excellent opportunity to work in a leading regional bank and grow a role and team from the grass roots up. If this role sounds of initial interest, please contact Matt Crocombe of Barclay Simpson Middle East on + 971 (0)55 608 7108 or mc@barclaysimpson.com