Risk-Salt Lake City-Associate, Credit

Associate, Credit Risk

Assess the credit and financial strength of the Corporates counterparts by performing fundamental credit analysis of both quantitative and qualitative credit factors. Assess and manage the risk of loss resulting from the failure of a counterparty to meet its contractual obligations across the firm's trading and credit businesses. Responsible for approving transactions, setting credit exposure limits, monitoring adherence to those limits, measuring credit exposure and losses from counterparty default. Conduct in-depth analyses related to causes and effects of credit events and conduct sector and/or regional (i.e. country) based concentration analyses. Recommend and defend internal and regulatory risk ratings for counterparts/transactions as required. Perform counterparty research reviews and analysis of corporate 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.

Master's degree (U.S. or foreign equivalent) in Finance, Computational Finance and Risk Management, Economics, or a related field and one (1) year of experience in job offered or a related role OR Bachelor's degree (U.S. or foreign equivalent) in Finance, Computational Finance and Risk Management, Economics, or a related field and three (3) years of experience in job offered or a related role. Prior experience must include one (1) year (with master's degree) or three (3) years (with bachelor's degree) of experience with: working with derivatives, loans and other products that give rise to credit risk to institutional counterparties; familiarity with regulatory rating requirements and application of such guidance is preferred - experience with credit regulatory processes such as the Shared National Credit (SNC) or Allowance for Loan and Lease Losses (ALLL); applying accounting methods (both Generally Accepted Accounting Principle and International Financial Reporting Standards) to analyze financial reports and explain performance variances; building financial models in Excel using advanced functionality, including macros, pivot tables, v-lookup, slicers, and h-lookup and Microsoft PowerPoint, to produce and present analytical insights and highlight data trends; utilizing Business Intelligence Software solutions, including Tableau, to provide actionable insights for Business decisions; and credit risk management experience, with a background in corporate credit risk.

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