Job Description
Job description
Company Description
Crown Agents Bank is a vastly growing and regulated UK bank that connects emerging and frontier markets to the rest of the world, using FX and payments technology. We are transforming the way payments and FX move through emerging markets, reducing friction so that more money gets to those who need it. Emerging markets payments are usually challenging, expensive, unreliable and opaque. Our solutions help fix these pain points. Ultimately, we connect traditionally hard-to-reach regions to global financial infrastructure, giving access to the best prices and the fastest, most reliable settlement.
FX and cross-border payments are often complex and expensive, especially when operating in emerging markets. Crown Agents Bank (CAB) wraps its deep and trusted relationships and strength of network around innovative digital capabilities, and cross-border transaction banking solutions to enable fintech, corporates, governments, development organisations and banks to move money to, from, and across often hard-to-reach markets.
Job Description
The main purpose is to lead a specialist team responsible for collaborating with front-office to undertake initial credit risk assessment and structuring of new business opportunities and owning second line in-life credit risk management. The individual will oversee credit risk evaluation and recommendations to credit risk committee as well as approve under their own credit authority. The role holder will continually look at how credit risk policy and processes can be optimised, and additional tools adopted.
• Proactively collaborate with the business to prioritise and manage the pipeline of new opportunities and in-life activity (incl. increase, renewals, heightened monitoring) in support of delivering the business strategy within board approved risk appetite.
• Regularly review an implement enhancement to credit policy, processes, and procedures to improve credit assessment and decision-making cycle time.
• Ensure that credit analysis and recommendations are delivered to a consistently high standard in support of the credit decisioning process.
• Co-ordinate the timely preparation on credit committee agenda, circulation of packs, preparation of minutes and the follow-up of actions.
• Ongoing monitoring of market, regulatory, macro-economic and political developments to ensure credit related assessments reflect current and emerging information.
• Provide strategic, subject matter expertise, to the Head of Credit Risk Management regarding the portfolio and individual credit characteristics. This includes providing input into the credit risk policy and risk appetite setting.
• Participation in client meetings/calls/visits and transaction/client-related discussions as required.
• Regularly review the portfolio credit characteristics, including the building of new reports and analyses to assist in the early identification of potential thematic or individual issues for remediation.
• Participate in Credit projects and initiatives, including audit related activities, as well as other duties as assigned by the Head of Credit Risk Management
• Supervise and develop the credit analysis team to ensure the delivery of consistent, high quality credit analysis to the organisation.
• Develop and maintain strong working relationships with relevant stakeholders across the organisation.
• Work with the Head of Credit Risk Management .to determine the optimal provision of credit and market data in support of credit risk management.
Qualifications
• Degree or equivalent in a commercial/numerical subject and/or relevant professional qualification.
• At least 7 years demonstrable credit analysis experience and a broad knowledge of FIs, Sovereigns, Corporates, IDOs, and NBFI credit risk within the financial services industry, ideally in an emerging/frontier market context.
• Good understanding of the IFRS+ impairment process. Financial modelling skills would be desirable.
• Working knowledge of banking products from a credit risk perspective including global markets Treasury/FX products and trade finance.
• Strong technical credit analysis and research skills (including financial statements analysis, sector research, peer analysis).
• Ability to formulate and deliver on forecast work plans, adapting and prioritising outputs to short deadlines where required.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and high accuracy and attention to detail. Ability to communicate with impact, ensuring complex information is articulated in a simple and meaningful way to a wide and varied audiences.
• Advanced level knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
• French/Portuguese/Spanish language skills with ability to read and interpret financial information and documents prepared in these languages is desirable.
Additional Information
• Hybrid working
• Contributory personal pension plan: - Minimum: Employee 2% and Employer 7%. Employer matches contributions in 1% increments to a maximum of: Employee 5% and Employer 10%
• Life Assurance – 4 times annual salary
• Group Income Protection
• Private Medical Insurance – this may include cover for partner and or children at company cost. Cover includes Optical, Dental and Audiology
• Discretionary Bonus
• Competitive Annual Leave
• 2 Volunteering Days
• Benefit Hut
