About this role:
Lead CIB Portfolio Manager evaluates banks and other financial institutions in different regions like Asia and the Indian sub-continent, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East based upon standard and documented underwriting criteria as per Corporate and Financial Institutions Group (FIG) Credit Policies. The end-product is a timely and thorough review of the financial institution, with appropriate internal risk ratings assigned to the counterparty and acceptable justification of those ratings.
Responsibilities
• Timely and accurate in the preparation of written analysis of banks and other financial institutions including Non-Bank Financial Institutions (NBFI) in assigned geographic markets. This includes extensive financial statement analysis of individual institutions and comparison to other peer institutions within the same country or sub industry.
• Accurate risk rating (including any changes from current ratings) must be assigned to the institution, with adequate justification contained within the analysis to support the assigned ratings.
• Application of monitoring tools to timely recognize potential problem loans in a specific market and/or counterparty.
• Maintain credit files for assigned accounts. May participate in planning for country exposure reviews by coordinating with line officers and outside resources to obtain supporting information and materials.
• May assist in internal and external exams by preparing the necessary credit folders for the exam. This will be done under direct supervision of the Portfolio Manager.
Desired Qualifications:
• The candidate for Lead CIB Portfolio Manager would be an MBA (Finance/ Banking), Cost and Management Accountant, Chartered Accountant/post graduate in Economics /FRM / CFA.
• Have 8-10 years of experience in corporate credit underwriting/credit rating including of top notch large corporates/4-5 years of credit rating /underwriting financial institutions, ideally should have worked in the credit department of whole sale banks or credit rating agencies
• Must have effective financial analysis research and note writing skills, with a strong command of English.
• Adept at advanced excel functionalities and working with voluminous data points in excel.
• The Lead CIB Portfolio Manager will take independent charge of many of the credit reviews assigned and will also mentor and train, perform QC of new comers/junior colleagues in the role.
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