Credit Risk Manager

5 days ago

Manama, Manama, Bahrain Mackenzie Jones Full time

**About Mackenzie Jones:**

Mackenzie Jones is a leading recruitment agency with a strong presence in the region. We specialize in placing top talent in some of the most prestigious organizations.

**Job Title: Senior Credit Officer**

We are currently seeking a highly skilled Senior Credit Officer to join our client, a large corporate bank with a strong reputation across the region. This is an excellent opportunity for a Bahraini or KSA National to take on a challenging role and make a significant contribution to the bank's success.

**Key Responsibilities:**

The successful candidate will be responsible for:

  • Approving credit applications, transactions, exceptions, and other extensions of credit within their delegated credit approval authority and as required by the bank's credit policies and procedures.
  • Ensuring that the bank's overall credit under-writings are in strict adherence to the relevant regulatory requirements.
  • Supporting the Chief Credit Officer (CCO) and Chief Risk Officer (CRO) in establishing and embedding a strong risk management culture that promotes good and thorough analysis, sound judgment, undoubted integrity of processes and decisions, well-thought-out flexibility, and appropriate balance between risk and reward.
  • Monitoring and managing the credit portfolio under their direct responsibility in a manner that sustains a high credit quality and minimizes non-performing loans.
  • Participating in the coaching and training of credit officers, products specialists, and relationship managers.

**Requirements:**

  • MUST be a Bahraini or KSA National.
  • Minimum of ten (10) years relevant lending and credit-related experience, the last three (3) years of which are in a credit approval role.
  • Appropriate risk training, including an acceptable course in early problem recognition and remedial management.
  • Experience in different business, functional, and/or geographic environments.
  • Sound knowledge of the relevant customer, industry, and product range.
  • Remedial management experience.
  • An acceptable track record with respect to individual exposures and/or portfolios that have been approved by the individual or have been under their responsibility.

**Desirable Skills and Qualifications:**

  • Sound knowledge of credit policies and practices and the ability to apply them in practice.
  • Sound knowledge of macroeconomic factors and country/sovereign risks and policies.
  • Sound knowledge of portfolio management techniques and risk rating policies.
  • Sound knowledge of the legal environment and documentation requirements.
  • Superior credit risk assessment skills, including counter-party analysis, transaction origination and structuring, early problem recognition, and effective remedial management.
  • Sound knowledge of credit risk planning and monitoring, including target marketing, portfolio planning, and scenario planning.
  • Sensitivity to and awareness of strategic, franchise, reputation, and compliance risks.

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