Counterparty Credit Approver - London

Counterparty Credit Approver

LHH are working with a Global Bank, as they are building a new team within their EMEA offices and are seeking a Counterparty Credit Approver to join their business. For this role you will lead and work with the wholesale lending, operations, and technology teams and as the team is new you will have scope to expand the role as the function grows.

This role will be to review the current counterparty exposure, analysing the portfolios, monitoring, controlling, and approving the risk across the EMEA region. Your key elements within the role will include credit analysis and approvals, assessing documentation, risk identification, exposure monitoring and stress testing.

Your Key Responsibilities as the Counterparty Credit Approver will include:

Approve credit reviews for the assessment of portfolio risk, credit limits and risk appetite ratiosManage credit exposures across the EMEA clients including derivatives, financing, and direct lending products.Work with the internal teams to mitigate risk on transactionsMonitor client portfolios to analyse their portfolios, propose risk limits and provide both daily and weekly reports.Communicate key findings to internal stakeholders, ensuring risk forums are updatedWork Business Risk teams on new product approvals and assessing monitoring and risk controlsDevelop risk management tools for monitoring and managing strategic risk infrastructure development. Your key skills for this Counterparty Credit Approver role will include

Proven experience in managing and analysing Counterparty Credit RiskProduct knowledge of Rates, Equities, Credit, and commoditiesStrong analytic skills, solid grasp of financial risk calculationsA clear communicator, both written and verbalFormal credit training would be beneficialProgramming skills in Python, R or other statistical languages would be a plus As this role sits within a new team, the client is open to evaluating the candidate's skill set, knowledge, and qualifications, so the role could be either at AVP or VP level within their business structure.

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