Senior Manager, CTC Risk

Senior Manager IB&M Credit Risk – Commodities, Trade and Carbon

• You are a passionate and engaging Senior Manager who has a true passion for Credit Risk Management within the Commodity and Trade sectors

• We are a team of values-driven professionals, striving to deliver the banks broader Risk Model

• Together we can harness mitigate the risks and analyse solutions for our customers and communities to help build a brighter future and really make a difference

Do work that matters:

Institutional Banking & Markets (IB&M) Risk Management is a divisional Risk team providing IB&M with specialist Risk services and advice. It forms part of the Bank's broader Risk model, which includes a corporate Risk policy and strategy group and a number of divisional Risk Management groups.

The Commodities, Trade and Carbon (CTC) Risk Team is a newly establish team that focuses on the end to end risk management across CTC products. The Commodities, Trade and Carbon Risk team has a credit focus but works closely with Market Risk and other risk functions such as Operational Risk to cover the credit and physical exposures.

See yourself in the team:

As a Senior Manager CTC Risk, you will be responsible for the risk management of IB&M clients within the Commodity Trading and Carbon portfolios as well as contributing to the growth and development of Trade Finance activities. You will ensure authorised frameworks and systems are used in the management of risk and credit decisions in order to achieve an optimum outcome for the Group.

Your main responsibilities will include:

• Commodity Traders /Repo Portfolio – Managing a portfolio of clients with significant commodities footprint primarily including but not limited to commodity traders, vertically integrated trading companies and commodity product only clients;

• Lead the Carbon lending portfolio that focuses on development of carbon lending initiatives that help increase carbon credit supply;

• Perform or oversight performance of Annual Reviews, Limit Increase requests, on-boarding, client due diligence (periodic and ad hoc) and contributions to committees or other forums;

• Involved in Product Development and Governance through a risk lens for CTC products.

• Advises senior credit risk decisioners on transactional or portfolio risk concerns including industry dynamics; provides recommendations to ensure that credit risks are identified, managed, measured, monitored, and properly reported. Supports senior managers in establishing risk tolerance limits and developing risk management standards of practice that are consistent with industry standards. Makes high quality credit risk decisions in line with delegated Personal Credit Approval Authority;

• Supports the development of risk appetite and oversight related to physical commodities holdings across Base Metals, Precious Metals, Agriculture and Carbon;

• Contributes to the development of quantitative and analytical risk metrics and reports to manage, measure, and monitor global risk exposures. Completes high quality credit risk analysis and submissions. Provision of credit and risk appetite guidance to Line 1 and developing design of quantitative analysis methods and related technology-based tools to analyse data in order to effectively identify, monitor, measure, and manage credit risks.

We are interested in hearing from you if you have :

• Extensive experience in credit risk, assessing new transactions and portfolio management, preferably in a Line 2 function having exercised a meaningful personal approval authority;

• Strong working knowledge of Trade Finance products including structured trade products;

• Advanced understanding of derivative and commodity related products, commodity markets and related industry knowledge;

• Strong stakeholder management skills and an ability to deal with a range of internal and external senior stakeholders;

• Comfortable with managing multiple priorities and deadlines with strong attention to detail and good analytics skills;

• A role-model for the CBA values: Care, Courage and Commitment.

If this sounds like the role for you then we would love to hear from you. Apply today

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