Credit Risk Manager

My client is a Global Professional Services organisation with offices throughout Asia Pacific and an operating revenue in the $Billions.  

Their expanding Risk & Controls team, partners with clients to improve their risk profile by identifying, quantifying and managing risks associated with their business, across a range of risk disciplines including credit, market, operational, technology, governance & compliance, data analytics and forensic risk services.   

Role:                            Credit Risk Manager 
Location:                    Melbourne   
Reporting into:          Group Risk & Compliance  

As a Credit Risk Manager you will play a key role in the group's achievement of its ambitious growth objectives in the Banking sector. The changing landscape of Risk presents an excellent opportunity for an experienced Manager to explore and actively drive opportunities.  

Tasks and Responsibilities  

Specifically, this role will be responsible for supporting business development, by delivering consulting engagements and leveraging your subject matter expertise to grow their capabilities in terms of intellectual property and developing junior staff.  

This is an exciting opportunity for a Manager with a client service orientation to join their emerging Risk practice. Responsibilities include: 

• Providing advisory services to clients in relation to credit risk strategy, compliance and policies and procedures   
  
• End-to-end management of client engagements, from development of proposals and budgets, through to delivery and implementation of Credit Risk solutions 
  
Actively promoting and contributing to relevant internal knowledge sharing forums and external thought leadership 
Building profitable relationships with potential and existing clients that help grow the Risk business 

Managing a professional and motivated team, including mentoring junior staff 

Candidate Profile 

Tertiary qualifications in a related discipline 

Minimum of 5 years of credit risk management experience in the banking sector, preferably international experience in established banking institutions 

Expertise in both process re-engineering (e.g. design and implementation of automated credit approval process) and monitoring portfolio analytics (e.g. customer segmentation, limit management) 

Ability to design credit risk strategy, governance, policy & procedures 

Solid understanding of end-to-end credit processes & how these support credit decisions 
Quantitative modelling skills desirable