Banking Job - Mandarin speaking Head of Credit - London - wm

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Your New Job Title: Mandarin speaking Head of Credit

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The Skills You\’ll Need: Mandarin, credit analyst, credit risk, team management, ACCA/CIMA

Your New Salary: up to £120k, depending on experience

Office based

To be successful in this role our client has said it is essential that candidates:

• are fluent in Mandarin Chinese
• have credit analysis or credit risk experience in commodity sector

If that means this job isn’t a match for you please view our other vacancies for one that may be a better fit.

What You\’ll be Doing:

• Ensure compliance with the credit risk policies and procedures and ensure that a sound environment for granting, measuring, monitoring and controlling credit risk is in place.
• Enhance the strategy, policies and procedures of Credit Risk to support the organisational business strategy and to ensure adherence to best practice.
• Perform credit assessment and review (quantitative and qualitative) of potential and current clients/counterparties including corporates, financial institutions, CCPs and State Owned Enterprises.
• Present credit risk assessments and recommendations to the Credit Committee for approval.
• Monitor client exposure against various limits and initiate risk mitigation action against any breaches as per credit policy and procedure.
• Maintain and update credit record/documentation of clients, including financials, approved limits, review decisions etc.
• Maintain an understanding of all pertinent regulations as well as best practices pertaining to the overall credit operation.
• Maintain continual focus on market methodological developments with regard to portfolio credit risk measurement techniques and ensure adoption of relevant techniques where appropriate.
• Continual focus on global macro-economic environment with understanding of specific country factors and impact of those factors on the credit risk assessment with regard to clients and counterparties incorporated or operating in those countries.
• Embed group credit risk related policies and procedures to local process.
• Support the Head of Risk for risk management activities in market risk, liquidity risk and operational risk
• Perform the below with the support of the risk analysts: annual risk policy reviews, organising and attending credit committee and risk management committee, new product launch and post launch evaluation etc.
• Other ad hoc duties as assigned by the management.

The Skills You\’ll Need to Succeed:

• Proven track record in corporate credit analysis experience, including profit and loss, balance sheet and cash flow analysis
• Leadership skills in leading a credit team within a dynamic environment to quickly resolve issues
• Track record in compiling researched credit assessments with sound conclusions
• Experience of reviewing clients that operate in the commodities sector
• Understanding inherent risk in granting credit lines for IM and VM requirements for clients
• Strong report writing skills and ability to consolidate large amounts of qualitative and quantitative data
• Ability to communicate effectively in a manner appropriate to the audience from junior level colleagues, to senior management as well as a diverse external client base
• Proven mentoring skills to develop junior members of staff
• Good MS Excel and Word skills

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