AVP & Credit Lead- Credit Management

  • Full-time
  • Sub Division: Credit - Investment Banking - Corporates
  • Division: Group Credit

Company Description

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Job Description

Generic Accountability

  • Preparation of monthly group portfolio report and dash board by consolidation data of various geographical locations.
  • Ensure accuracy of data being presented to various stakeholders including senior management
  • Prepare and publish KRI Report for respective portfolio to all stakeholders.
  • Monitor exposure against Global Limit in line with Banking Appetite and business requirement at Security level, Issuer level and Country level to create robust infrastructure to create efficiency within controlled risk environment.
  • Take custodianship of all eligible products for leverage and remain single source of control for distribution of the list to product, CAD and credit underwriters for system control and governance perspective.
  • Manage and update the limits in core banking system for collateral Management (Instrument level, Issuer Level, country level and product level) in line with approval.
  • Support Group Credit team to manage the Margin call remediation & excess over limit cases via co-ordination and centralize reporting.
  • Ownership for exception reporting, deferral reporting and large exposure reporting.
  • Documenting department processes related to credit evaluation and monitoring of eligible Investment products.
  • Coordinate with internal counterparties (Credit underwriting team) to support departmental deliverable for internal and external audit.
  • Support Adhoc reporting requirement for the department to support regulatory reporting requested.
  • Support monitoring Portfolio performance versus budget allcation.
  • Coordinate with IT and other departments for timely availability of data for CBG.

Specific Accountability

The jobholder key role is to take full ownership of Portfolio reporting at Group Level and managing important MIS for implementing strong control and governance. As part of this exercise the job holder is expected to manage Global List of approved securities and Global Limit and exposure reports across all products, Issuers and Countries for wealth & Private Banking Portfolio. The job holder is also expected to have basic understanding of capital market and derivative products, and will be performing credit assessment on products in compliance to agreed Policy and Risk framework.

As a member of the second line of defense, the job holder is expected to play a strong partnership role without seeking to dilute the high standards of credit risk.  He/She is expected to be highly self-motivated, ambitious and expected to be keep himself updated for key market drivers and requires out of the box thinking without seeking to dilute the high standards of credit.

Thus, knowledge, dexterity and maturity coupled with practical experience play a big role in discharging this role.

Job Specific Accountabilities

  • Provide accurate Portfolio MI and focused written reports for Quality Management Reporting.
  • Update and circulate KRI report for all product portfolio on regular basis.
  • Review, maintain and distribute list of all eligible products and distribute the list to eligible product to CAD, credit underwriters for creating efficiency and guidance perspective.

·        Regular review of Early Warning Triggers on securities eligible for lending and provide credit recommendation to manage the portfolio to ensure bank exposure is safeguarded against quality collateral.

·        Monitor Product performance and recommend changes required in line with changes in product feature or product offering to ensure overall proposition remain robust.

  • As a backup, perform credit evaluation of all products within agreed SLA and business partners are advised on credit decision. High level of coordination is expected to work along with product team. Comprehensive Analysis and recommendation of LTV and peak exposure on Investment products clearly outlining key risks (Credit default risk, Market Risk, liquidity risk), mitigations and recommendation to unit head for approval.
  • Provide support for project on automation of analytic work on portfolio performance to include project design, data collection, data base design, analysis and presentation.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualification

  •  Must have Bachelor’s degree.  
  • Desirable: - Post Graduate Degree (MCA / MBA / CA or similar degree) 

Minimum Experience & Skill Set

  •   3  years’ relevant experience in the banking sector with good understanding of Credit MIS or Wealth Management.
  •   Strong analytical skills for portfolio monitoring along with excellent hold over Microsoft excel, power point presentation. Desirable to have good knowledge of SQL / SAS programming.
  •  Expected to have some Knowledge of various capital market products and derivative products.
  •  Strong structuring skills to provide E2E process for Lending on Investment Products.
  •  Ability to work under pressure and maintain a detached and Independent perspective.
  • Be self-motivated, autonomous and well organized.

Additional Information

FAB Wealth & Private Banking division provides its High Net Worth & Ultra High Net worth with a wide range of facilities under the auspices of an approved lending framework.

 

Lead - Credit MIS & Analytics as part of Group Credit team will be primarily responsible for MIS and Analytics for Group Private Banking lending portfolio. His key role will be to prepare the data accurately to be presented to various stakeholders including senior management on a timely basis. He will be conducting regular monitoring of portfolio composition and concentration, ongoing monitoring of approved products against peak exposure and risk triggers along with providing accurate Portfolio MI and focused written reports.

 

He will also be working with other credit team based internationally to consolidate group exposure related to lending on Real Estate and investment product within approved credit policy. The job requires candidate to have excellent knowledge of excel and power point to support quality presentation within tight timeline.

The portfolio composition is relatively complex and job requires good understanding of capital market products, including but not limited to investment products (Equity, Fixed Income, Funds, Structured Products, etc.), Insurance Premium financing, Margin lending, FX products (derivatives),  asset management (Funds,  Portfolio Management, etc.) &  Counterparty exposure (Brokerage, Custodian, etc.).

 

In Summary this is a demanding role that provides the right candidate with the opportunity to season Investment product credit risk and over a period of time gain full understanding of FAB’s Private and Wealth Management lending proposition and procedures. It requires a strong mix of analytical, report generation (IT Background) and capital market product knowledge to ensure processes meet the Bank’s highest standards.

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