Risk, Credit Risk (Financial Institutions), Vice President, Salt Lake City

Credit Risk Position

Credit Risk (CR) is responsible for managing the firm's credit exposure to its trading and lending counterparties. Leveraging its extensive expertise in financial, credit and risk analysis, CR ensures that credit exposure to our counterparts is managed within the firm's risk appetite. Staffed with more than 270 professionals, CR operates through 12 different offices around the world and credit professionals work closely with many areas of the firm. Given this structure, CR professionals gain diverse financial experience and a broad perspective on how the entire firm functions. The interaction with numerous departments and the range of projects that ensue allow for a challenging, varied and multi-dimensional work environment.

Job Responsibilities

• Assess the credit and financial strength of the firm's Financial Institution counterparts by performing fundamental credit analysis of both quantitative and qualitative credit factors
• Determine and manage the firm's credit risk appetite across derivatives, loans, funding and deposits for a portfolio of Financial Institution counterparts
• Approve derivative and funding transactions while ensuring appropriate documentation and risk mitigants to protect against default and minimize potential losses
• Perform credit underwriting of lending transactions, contributing credit recommendations and support to the firm's capital committee approval process
• Recommend and defend internal and regulatory risk ratings for counterparts / transactions as required
• Oversee and approve or perform counterparty research reviews and analysis of Financial Institution counterparts
• Present findings and recommendations to senior management and answer questions relating to analysis performed
• Proactively monitor and assess counterparts and industry subsectors including based on market indicators, regulatory guidance, rating agency commentary and counterparty surveillance and report relevant information and its impact to senior management in a timely manner

Basic Qualifications

Competencies

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