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Senior Risk Officer, Sub-Saharan Africa
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We are seeking a highly experienced and skilled Senior Risk Officer to join our team in Sub-Saharan Africa. As a key member of our Credit Risk Management team, you will be responsible for analyzing and appraising risks of our new and existing portfolio FI debt transactions.
Key Responsibilities- Independently analyze and appraise risks of EBRD's new and existing portfolio FI debt transactions.
- Identify required due diligence, recommend appropriate risk mitigation measures and transaction structures, including security, covenants, and pricing.
- Advise bankers and the Bank's Committees to ensure that banking projects comply with the Bank's sound banking mandate.
- Review portfolio projects, assign credit ratings, and communicate trends in the portfolio and lessons learned to management and peers for their broader strategic decision-making and bottom-up stress-testing.
- Lead, coach, and manage junior Credit Managers, analysts, and junior bankers rotating through Country and FI Credit Risk Management Team.
- Deputise in the absence of the Director, Country and FI Credit Risk Management Team.
- Initiate risk-based analysis of the proposed new EBRD countries of operation, namely Iraq, Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire, Benin, and Senegal.
- Ensure that the EBRD understands the country's risk, operating environment, banking sector, financial stability, corporate business environment, and general market structure issues in each of these seven countries.
- Drive the preparation of a credit risk appetite for each country, secure its approval, and ensure that it is communicated within the Bank and adhered to.
- Take responsibility for the independent and unbiased view on projects proposed to the Operations Committee / SBIC (Small Business Investment Committee) / under Delegated Authority and make clear recommendations or approvals on each proposal.
- Take responsibility for the credit risk of each country's portfolios of FI transactions, including agreeing on the annual Financial Institution Credit Risk Envelope and defining the credit risk appetite for each country's risk portfolio.
- Take responsibility for the credit risk assessment of any international banking groups located in Africa with which we do business (for instance any South African banks we on-board for their subsidiaries in our new countries of operation).
- Take responsibility for any new product approvals and management of those products needed to do business in Sub-Saharan Africa and Iraq.
- Take responsibility for ensuring that the team has adequate information data feeds to fully understand the environment in Sub-Saharan Africa and Iraq.
- Take responsibility for ensuring that enough portfolio analytics is available (for example via Tableau) to ensure that our new business in SSA & Iraq can be monitored holistically.
- Analyze the key risks of each proposal and advise on risk mitigation measures, structures, tenors, security, covenants, and condition precedents, to the project teams and, via credit notes. Review integrity and anti-money laundering issues to ensure compliance with internal guidelines and advise on referral to the Office of the Chief Compliance Officer as required.
- Appraise the validity and reliability of key assumptions of each proposal, including via involvement in the commissioning and review of independent due diligence and travel.
- Ensure projects comply with any relevant risk guidelines, prudential limits set by the Bank, and that appropriate ratings are assigned for the probability of default and loss given default.
- Exercise independent delegated authority regarding portfolio actions (including certain waivers and amendments), and recommendations to senior management on matters requiring higher level approval (including transfers to corporate recovery, provisions, and more significant restructuring, etc.).
- Lead proactive and regular monitoring of the assigned portfolio counterparties, countries, and market developments.
- Actively and constructively engage with Banking and other relevant staff to ensure the adequacy of front-line monitoring and coach Banking when appropriate (including through Banking staff rotation in the Country and FI Credit Risk Management).
- In liaison with Risk Policy and Analytics and other Credit teams, lead FI sector portfolio input to any FI sector portfolio stress-tests or other periodic portfolio reviews for senior management.
- Collaborate with other members of staff; especially in the Banking Department, Finance, the Office of the General Counsel, and Impact to ensure effective cross-departmental and business functioning.
- Participate in various executive Bank committees - including the Operations Committee, SBIC, Risk Committee, etc.
- Participate and contribute positively to various initiatives within Risk Management or bank-wide.
- Be an agent of credit culture dissemination, including managing and mentoring bankers on rotation.
- Prior knowledge of operating risks in Sub-Saharan Africa, and if possible Iraq, as well as other emerging markets.
- Experience managing Sub-Saharan African, and if possible Iraqi, risks against the risk appetite of a major international organisation operating both outside and inside that region.
- Influencing skills in challenge to the Banking team's selection, structuring, and portfolio management of the transaction and ability to articulate different views.
- Extensive experience in analyzing financial institutions, and corporates, knowledge of country risk and sovereign creditworthiness analysis.
- Act as the risk expert for all projects in Sub-Saharan Africa and Iraq, provide operational guidelines to the Banking teams as well as sector risk managers, and provide input into project selection and prioritisation.
- Deliver clear authoritative conclusions in the context of large volumes and tight timescales.
- Proven skills and track record in autonomous decision-making capacity at a senior level in credit and equity risk in high-risk environments.
- Strong written and spoken communication skills.
- Strong experience of using datafeeds, third-party models, construction of in-house models to ensure good quality credit analysis in the team, even in the absence of data which might be encountered in Sub-Saharan Africa and Iraq.
- Good Excel knowledge, ideally coupled with experience in Python and Tableau.
- Advanced degree in finance, business, economics, or equivalent on-the-job training.
- Have the required people management skills for junior staff under his/her responsibility.
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is a pioneering international financial institution that supports the development of the private sector in 38 countries from Central Europe to Central Asia and the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean. Our mission is to promote economic growth and development in these regions by investing in private sector businesses and projects that have the potential to transform the economy and improve people's lives.
We are a diverse and inclusive organisation that values the skills and experience of our employees. We offer a dynamic and challenging work environment, with opportunities for professional growth and development. If you are a motivated and experienced professional looking for a new challenge, we encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity.
