Counterparty Credit Risk (Nbfi) - Senior Market Risk Specialist

About this role:
Join our dynamic EMEA Independent Risk Management group and contribute to the success of a rapidly growing global bank with an award-winning culture. As a Senior Market Risk Specialist in our EMEA Wholesale Counterparty Credit Risk team, you'll play a pivotal role in underwriting and managing the risk of a diverse portfolio of non-bank financial institutions engaged in capital markets trading with Wells Fargo affiliates.
In the heart of Wholesale Counterparty Credit Risk (WCCR), a key unit within Independent Risk Management, your focus will be on assessing credit for institutional clients in EMEA, including insurance companies, hedge funds, private equity sponsors, broker/dealers, pension funds, and asset managers. Collaborate with various business lines to drive our product growth strategy and be part of a team dedicated to maintaining robust risk governance and ensuring compliance with established programs and policies. Elevate your career with us - join a bank that's not only growing but also recognized for its exceptional workplace culture.
In this role, you will:

• Evaluate Counterparty Credit Risk based on an understanding of the clients' risk profiles encompassing quantitative and qualitative measures of credit worthiness. Client types comprise Non-Bank Financial Institutions, such as insurance companies, hedge funds, private equity sponsors, broker/dealers, pension funds, and asset managers.
• Prepare and submit credit requests, including relevant trading limits, to support counterparty trading relationships in EMEA.
• Preparing written counterparty annual reviews/transactional credit proposals.
• Spearhead independent portfolio and client due diligence meetings.
• Negotiate and provide guidance in the negotiation of ISDA/CSAs, GMRAs/MRAs, MSFTA and other legal documentation.
• Monitor, identify and escalate limit overages, documentation trigger breaches, margin disputes and missed calls
• Escalate any counterparties/issues of concern as necessary.

Required Qualifications:

• Experience in Capital Markets, trading or interest rate risk, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• Prior experience in credit underwriting/analysis with a focus on NBFIs.
• Experience in dealing with traded products including derivatives, financing trades and structures.
• Experience negotiating legal documentation (ISDAs/CSAs, MSFTAs, GMRAs/ MRAs).
• Strong Microsoft Office skills - Excel/PowerPoint/Word.
• Ability to partner with a wide range of colleagues including sales, trading, legal, operations.
• Strong analytical and process skills.
• Excellent communication skills - the ability to write, organize, and present information in a clear and understandable format to a wide range of audiences.
• Ability to multi-task and work on a variety of time-sensitive tasks / meet deadlines.
• University Degree in a relevant subject

Desired Qualifications:

• Prior capital markets risk experience in a global financial institution.
• An industry body qualification such as CFA, FRM, CAIA.

Posting End Date:
31 Mar 2024
*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.
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