Credit Risk Officer
- Employer
- UR Capital SARL
- Location
- Zurich, Switzerland
- Salary
- Competitive
- Closing date
- Nov 15, 2019
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- Job Function
- Other
- Industry Sector
- Finance - General
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Education
- Bachelors
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Job Description
Our client is a well-regarded international financial institution. We are looking for a Credit Risk Officer for Group Risk Management team.
In this role your responsibilities will include:
The ideal candidate should possess the following skills:
I'm interested
Our client is a well-regarded international financial institution. We are looking for a Credit Risk Officer for Group Risk Management team.
In this role your responsibilities will include:
- Contribute to the development and maintenance of Risk Management policies, guidelines and procedures across the Group
- Contribute to the development of appropriate risk management systems; ensure appropriate data quality in risk systems and implement regular controls
- Contribute to the implementation of appropriate risk measurement and reporting across risks and the group entities; ensure escalation procedures are in place
- Provide support, education and training to staff to build risk awareness within the organization
- Counterparty and country risk
- Conduct credit assessments and provide sound and independent rating/credit opinions on a wide array of financial institutions spread across the globe acting as counterparties
- Perform regular reviews of the portfolio of counterparties and adjust credit limits as needed
- Monitor macro-economic, market indicators and daily news to follow trends and risks within the market
- Interact with Front-office on transaction approvals and support a credit hotline
- Perform various risk reports
- Improve the credit risk management system
- Contribute to the development of quantitative risk calculation models and counterparty rating models
- Operational, liquidity, market risk: additional input might be required from time to time
- Liaise as needed with Local Risk Managers
The ideal candidate should possess the following skills:
- University degree in Finance or Business administration, CFA an advantage
- Deep understanding of credit and country risk issues
- Advanced knowledge of credit analysis on financial institutions (banks, funds, hedge funds, insurances), experience on corporates an advantage
- Min 5-8 years of experience as senior credit officer covering a portfolio of financial institutions with exposure to emerging markets
- Knowledge of operational risk and investment funds a plus
- Analytical mind
- Fast and reliable execution, attention to details
- Ability to prioritize workload and meet deadlines
- Team player, but also able to work independently.
- Flexible, excellent communication skills with management as well as operational staff
- Good IT skills. Advanced knowledge of Bloomberg an advantage
- Fluency in English, French; other languages a plus
I'm interested
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