Senior Risk Analyst

• Summary of the position:
• Financial and credit analysis and writing of corporate credit files
• Determining risk ratings in the rating tools
• Issuing of risk opinion or risk conclusion on the credit requests
• Participation in the Local Credit Committees
• Co-ordinate with Regional and HO risk analyst teams
• Monitoring of the economic and financial evolution of clients
• Monitoring of global set of credit limits on clients / groups
• Interaction with Senior bankers / Relationship Managers on the credit requests and ongoing monitoring of risk exposures

Main duties:

• Analyzing the credit applications received from the Front Office (FO), conducting a financial and credit analysis, and writing of credit files in co-ordination with senior bankers/ relationship managers for their portfolio and for all business lines relevant to a particular corporate client;
• Advising senior bankers and business lines on the structuring of the transactions / Group structures / line structure / methodology, during the preparation of the credit application;
• Determining Risk Ratings in the rating tools (calculation, proposal and validation) for groups and counterparties;
• Ensuring that the risk strategy elaborated by the senior banker is consistent with the Banks risk strategies for the relevant sectors and country;
• Conducting annual review of credit limits and rating review of counterparties / groups; ensuring that the annual reviews are prepared in a timely manner and that ratings are reviewed by the Bank at least every 12 months;
• Monitoring of the economic and financial evolution of clients; providing alerts to the head of the Department / management of potential deterioration of risk profiles of borrowers and of critical situations;
• Monitoring of the global set of limits and exposure on groups / counterparties;
• Per delegation level, issuing risk opinion or risk conclusion concerning the borrower, the relevant of the proposed transaction, the set up of credit limits and the internal rating; participation to the Local Credit Committee. For credit applications exceeding the local delegation, working in co-ordination with the regional / HO risk analyst teams;
• Update and capture data in the electronic credit decision workflow systems;
• Preparing information and data for annual portfolio reviews;

Candidate's technical skills:

• Ability to read and analyse financial statements / balance sheet understanding.
• Industry / sector knowledge.
• 8-10 years experience in corporate risk analysis department of banks / rating agencies.