Job description

Summary of the role:

As a Risk specialist in our rapidly growing EMEA banking analytics team, you will be involved in multiple exciting opportunities to build new solutions, solve interesting risk and regulatory problems and demonstrate strong subject matter knowledge during senior client conversations to build credibility and trust. You will be playing the role of a knowledge partner to clients needing support on their regulatory compliance and risk management journey. This role is client facing and as such you should be willing to spend 25-40% of your time on client locations- either for initial client workshops or presenting solutions/frameworks or even as the SME guiding the team during the delivery phase.

You will be a key catalyst to drive growth- we already with largest and most prestigious UK banks and our aspiration is to deepen those relationships and build new relationships with other large banks, fintechs and payment providers

As part of your duties, you will be responsible for:

• Being current on new risk regulations regularly published by PRA and ECB
• Build a point of view on what these regulations mean for banks in terms of compliance
• Help front end sales and account management team with subject matter knowledge and expertise to build rapport and trust with clients and prospects
• Help convert client problems to actionable plans/frameworks/solutions, working closely with front end and delivery teams and then presenting them to clients & prospects
• Be part of regular governance meetings with clients to continue establishing trust and subject matter expertise

Qualifications and experience we consider to be essential for the role:

• Minimum 10 years (ideally 15+ years) of experience in relevant credit risk areas for banks (preferably retail banks), Big4 or specialised domain consulting firms
• These essential areas of experience to include:
• Capital compliance (IRB, IFRS9, CRR)
• Model Risk Management (Validation and/or monitoring)
• Atleast 1 of the following areasCollections (Modeling, Strategy and/or operations)

Fraud (first party/third party)
Customer management (Underwriting, pricing)
Risk Data Management (BCBS239)

• Experience of supporting front end sales & account management team is highly desirable
• Master’s degree in business or accounting OR a reputed STEM graduate degree

Skills and Personal attributes we would like to have:

• Strong verbal and written communication skills including presentation writing skills
• Problem solving and consulting mindset
• Willingness to go above and beyond to solve client problems
• Willingness to travel within UK, Ireland and EU
• Ability and experience of working with different time zones (if needed)
• Exposure to working in a multi-cultural diverse organisation would be desirable

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: £110,000.00-£120,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Employee discount
• Flexitime
• Referral programme
• Work from home

Schedule:

• Flexitime
• Monday to Friday

Supplemental pay types:

• Bonus scheme

Ability to commute/relocate:

• London: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Education:

• Master's (preferred)

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: Credit Risk Specialist - London Hybrid