Senior Credit Risk Officer

Job description

Are you naturally curious and ambitious? Do you have sharp analytic skills?

We’re looking for someone like that who can:

– evaluate counterparty credit risk based on an understanding of the hedge fund and family office risk management techniques, trading strategies, and infrastructure, as well as a number of other quantitative and qualitative measures of credit worthiness. This will include client due diligence visits for onsite evaluations.

– hold delegated personal authority (within established risk-based limits) to approve new positions or to make recommendations to higher authority levels within Credit. The candidate will be expected to interact with the business units in relation to transactions to ensure the risk fit UBS's ultimate appetite in the sector

– evaluate transactional risks associated with OTC derivatives, securities financing, exchange traded derivatives, banking products and structured transactions

– prepare, as well as review and approve, written counterparty annual reviews/transactional credit proposals drawing conclusions relating to credit assessment, risk appetite, exposure drivers and business prospects

– lead trading documentation negotiation including ISDA/CSA, Prime Brokerage and Repo Agreements

– ensure all regulatory requests, audit items and operational risk issues are dealt with in a disciplined, timely and efficient manner

– perform ad hoc credit risk analysis and participate in portfolio reviews to identify risk developments or concentrations