About the Role
As a Senior Credit Risk Analyst, you will join our Global Risk team and oversee credit risk activities across the Americas. You will help shape our risk framework while supporting business growth in a fast-paced commodity trading environment.
Responsibilities
- Assess and manage counterparty credit risk across existing and prospective clients.
- Partner with traders to evaluate new opportunities, emerging markets, and trading strategies.
- Develop and enhance credit risk frameworks, models, and monitoring tools.
- Provide timely risk insights and recommendations to support commercial decision-making.
- Monitor portfolio exposures and oversee the interaction between credit, market, and operational risks.
- Lead Risk & Compliance Committee (RCC) reporting and support senior leadership with risk updates and strategic recommendations.
- Manage trade credit insurance programs across the Americas portfolio.
- Collaborate with technology teams to improve risk systems and analytics.
Requirements
- Strong credit risk expertise, commercial judgement and the confidence to influence decisions.
- 5-7 years of experience in credit risk within commodity trading or a leading financial institution.
- Strong credit analysis and financial assessment capabilities.
- A data-driven approach to problem-solving and decision-making.
- Experience managing counterparty risk in a dynamic trading environment.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to build trusted relationships with traders, leadership, and external partners.
- Intellectual curiosity, a continuous learning mindset, and the ability to thrive in a fast-moving environment.
Skills
- Credit risk
- Commodity trading
- Financial institution
- Credit analysis
- Financial assessment
- Data-driven problem-solving
- Counterparty risk management
- Communication
- Relationship building
- Risk management
- Risk framework development
- Risk modeling
- Risk monitoring
- Trade credit insurance management
- Risk systems improvement
- Risk analytics
Location
- New York
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
- 5-7 years
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, or another quantitative discipline
Salary/Compensations
- $100k-$150k annually + discretionary bonus
About the Company
- ACT Commodities Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Equal Opportunity
- All employment decisions at ACT Commodities Inc. are made without regard to race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, family or parental status, status with regard to public assistance, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
