Total 2 credit controller job vacancies in D26 Upper Thomson, Springleaf

Job Purpose:

Individual will work as part of Counterparty Exposure (CPE) team under the global Institutional Credit Management (ICM) group and be responsible for measuring, monitoring and controlling counterparty risk for institutional clients. Analyzing portfolios and businesses, with a focus on counter-party and collateral risk to ensure the risks are being properly measured and controlled in accordance with the Firm’s risk policies.

Job Background/Context:

Institutional Credit Management (ICM) is a critical component of Citi’s First Line of defense for wholesale and counterparty credit risk management and works with Independent Risk teams to ensure best-in-class risk and controls, as well as client responsiveness. Key responsibilities of the group include credit analysis, documentation, risk identification, exposure monitoring and stress testing. ICM coordinates with credit management groups across ICG businesses to ensure full alignment on business and regulatory goals, as well as consistency and best practices where appropriate.

Counterparty Exposure (CPE) is a global team within ICM responsible for measuring, monitoring and controlling counterparty risk. To fulfill this role, a risk professional is required who has experience in market risk management and credit risk management areas, or has training in finance, mathematics or other quantitative fields.

Key Responsibilities:

• Approve credit reviews as a first line of defense approver (Credit Officer CO/Senior Credit Officer SCO designation) including assessment of portfolio risk, liquidity of client positions, credit limits and risk appetite ratios for APAC Real Money Funds.
• Maintain and manage credit exposures to clients across derivatives, financing and direct lending products.
• Advise and approve large transactions or deals that require individual risk assessment
• Work with Risk colleagues on risk mitigation at both inception of transactions and on an ongoing basis
• Monitor client portfolios to ensure that risks are controlled - primarily credit risk arising from market sensitive exposure and liquidity risk
• Work with Sales trading and clients to analyze client portfolios, propose counterparty risk limits and work with Credit risk management on getting limits approved
• Perform daily and weekly risk analysis and reporting on existing client portfolios as well as customized risk analysis on new client portfolios
• Communicate key findings to senior management.
• Work with business managers and In-Business Risk teams on margin model development, new product approvals and real-time monitoring and controls
• Analyzing control environment including periodic review of the control environment, vetting of new systems, processes, policies and procedures associated and related to market and/or credit risk and ensuring they are in sync with market practices.
• Utilize risk management tools for the measurement, monitoring and management of exposure.
• Represent the department to various independent risk teams, auditors and regulatory agencies on issues related to counterparty risk and controls.

Developmental Value:

• The team is new, giving opportunity to expand the role as the function grows.
• Learn about risk management and financing products more broadly.
• Influence the strategic direction of the Bank from a risk management perspective.
• Build solid market/credit risk experience as we use cutting-edge risk models and techniques.

Required Knowledge and Experience:

• Experience with funds underwriting.
• Experience with managing market or credit risk and training in finance, mathematics or quantitative fields.
• More than 12 years credit risk experience, preferably gained at a major financial institution.

Skills:

• Strong analytical skills with good attention to details and a demonstrated aptitude for tackling issues
• Ability to work well with cross-functional teams from Business, Credit, Operations and Compliance
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Sound risk and business judgment

Education:

• Bachelor’s/Master's degree in mathematics, science, finance/economics or a related field required
• An MBA, CPA, or CFA preferred and formal Credit Training is a plus

Competencies:

• Good communicator.
• Entrepreneurial.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Strong problem-solving abilities.
• Ability to work independently as well as in a team environment.

Citi continues to enhance its business control and governance framework by building out Institutional Credit Management (ICM), a new function in the 1st Line of Defense, to house and consistently manage credit risk activities performed across its Institutional Client Group organization. ICM’s objective is to provide integrated “end-to-end” credit underwriting, identification, measurement, management, and monitoring for wholesale credit risk across the enterprise. Within ICM, the CPE Underwriting function (ICM-CPE UW) provides analysis, greenlight, underwriting, first-line-of-defense credit approval and subsequent credit monitoring across all ICG wholesale credit businesses including Banking, Capital Markets, and Advisory (BCMA), Global Structured Products, Financings, and Securitizations (GSP-F&S), Treasury & Trade Services (TTS), Markets, and Securities Services (MSS).

The ICM Hedge Fund (HF) Portfolio Manager SVP / VP is responsible for managing Citi’s credit risk to a portfolio of the firm’s most complex and large Hedge Fund/Private Equity relationships. Primary activities include credit due diligence, credit reviews, credit approvals and monitoring of the portfolio within the risk appetite of the overall business strategy.

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with Citi’s business lines across all products, with a particular focus on Prime Brokerage, as well as 2nd LoD Risk Management
• Lead the client credit relationship in partnership with sales and trading and 2nd LoD credit risk.
• Engage in extensive client-interface through the due diligence meetings, negotiation of credit structures and documentation, including ISDA’s, Derivatives Clearing, FCM and Repo documents
• Conduct client diligence and prepare Credit Approval Memo (CAM) and risk rating scorecards.
• Evaluate and provide approval for trading activities, including recommending margin requirements and structural enhancements
• Accountable for evaluating the risk of hedge fund portfolios and managing credit risk related to client lending, trading, clearing, prime brokerage, and custody operations
• Monitor compliance with trading agreements (NAV and/or performance ATEs, disclosure requirements) and Limits excesses
• Recommend remediation plan for Limits and ATE breaches and remediate breaches in accordance with the plan
• Report on limit excesses and limit excess aging
• Review and monitor margin disputes, and establish Margin tolerance threshold for select clients where applicable
• Assist with addressing FCR, IA and regulatory reviews and questions
• Assist the Team Head in presentations and industry reports given to senior management, and regulatory reporting requirements
• Provide leadership and guidance to more junior staff
• Making prudent risk evaluations while making business decisions, taking into account the firm’s image and protecting Citigroup, clients and assets by ensuring adherence to relevant laws, regulations, and polices, act with ethical integrity, and transparently handling, reporting and managing control issues

Qualifications:

• 5 to 10+ years of experience in financial services and risk management required
• Strong interest in the Hedge Fund /alternative asset management sector
• Extensive years of previous work experience in related field and ability to work independently on complex risk requests
• Strong communication skill
• Good understanding of Capital Markets trading and lending products, particularly in derivatives, structured and other complex products traded by Hedge Funds
• Quantitative and intuitive skills in the risks inherent in capital markets products, transactions, and positions
• Strong grasp of current technologies including stress testing
• Real sense of how to support business growth, within risk appetite parameters
• Motivated and confident to work within a dynamic risk sector
• Attention to detail unaffected by high pressure situations
• Highly proficient in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Access
• Role is evaluated depending on the candidate's skillset and qualifications and can be SVP/VP.

Education:

• Bachelor's degree/University degree or equivalent experience
• Master's degree preferred