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Mandarin speaking Head of Credit

London
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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

Mandarin speaking Head of Credit - 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.

    Mandarin speaking Head of Credit - 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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