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About the Role
The Credit Risk Specialist will support the development, implementation, and maintenance of the organization’s Lending Policy, ensuring frameworks, policies, standards, and procedures align with the business’s risk appetite, regulatory expectations, and governance requirements. This role involves providing policy guidance, supporting framework changes, maintaining controls, and promoting consistent credit risk application across the business.
Responsibilities
- Support the Senior Credit Risk Manager, 2nd line team, and 1st line teams with credit risk knowledge.
- Support the development and continuous improvement of the bank's lending policy.
- Provide input and challenge on framework and policy updates or implementation.
- Maintain awareness of key business activities and emerging risks, identifying areas for second-line oversight.
- Perform thematic reviews and deep dives.
- Provide oversight of credit risk aspects of regulatory reports and returns.
- Manage and build internal relationships with key functions.
- Attend risk and governance committees as required.
- Perform activities delegated by the Senior Credit Risk Manager.
- Provide ongoing risk input and support for projects.
- Perform monthly quality assurance checks on underwriting and end-to-end processes.
- Provide Line 2 advice and challenge on risk management to all business areas.
- Conduct reviews and challenge of departmental process-level risk assessments.
Requirements
- Resilience and ability to adapt to a fast-paced environment of change and ambiguity.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Detail-oriented with the ability to manage multiple competing priorities and stakeholders.
- Drive to provide quality output as part of a high-performing team.
- Ability to consistently meet deadlines and understand changing priorities.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Experience working within a financial services environment.
- Experience in writing and implementing policies and frameworks.
- Excellent problem-solving skills.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and senior executives.
Skills
- Credit risk knowledge
- Lending policy development
- Framework and policy updates
- Risk oversight
- Thematic reviews
- Regulatory reporting
- Internal relationship management
- Project risk input
- Quality assurance
- Risk management advice and challenge
- Process risk assessment review
Location
- Mayfair, London
Work Type
- 4+ days in the office
- 35 Hours per week
Experience Level
- Subject matter expert
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive
Benefits
- 8% company pension contribution and 3% individual contribution
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
- Private medical cover with BUPA
- Death in service at 4 x base salary with Aviva
- Mental health support (helpline and counselling)
- Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave
About the Company
- One of the UK’s fastest growing and award-winning banks.
- A team of ambitious, passionate, hardworking, and committed people.
- Successfully created and launched one of the UK’s newest specialist property finance banks.
- Believes that career progression should be achievable and accelerated.
- Offers a supportive and dynamic atmosphere.
- Fast-paced and collaborative environment where efforts are recognised and rewarded.
- Takes pride in fostering an open and inclusive culture that embraces change and encourages continuous learning.
- Values privacy and data protection rights.
- Has a longstanding data protection culture and promotes robust ethical standards in data management.
Equal Opportunity
- An equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates, regardless of their age, sex, race, disability, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital/civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity.