Senior Associate, Credit Portfolio Management

• Active Portfolio Management opportunity within Capital Structuring
• Utilise your strong analytical skills and be part of an innovative environment
• Great exposure and career development
• Sydney CBD based role

See yourself in our team:

CBA's Institutional Banking and Markets(IB&M) is responsible for managing the Group's relationships with major corporate and government clients and institutional investors, and provides a full range of capital raising, transactional and risk management products and services. The division also performs an important internal role for the Group by providing equities, markets, lending and transaction banking execution capabilities to other CBA business units that allows them to capture opportunities with business customers.

Credit Portfolio Management(CPM) and is responsible for optimisation and active management of IB&M's balance sheet and capital as well as supporting the pricing and origination of non-retail lending across the Group.

Do the work that matters:

The Senior Associate role supports the active portfolio management of the IB&M portfolio from both a risk and return on capital perspective. This will include identifying, analysing and executing transactions to distribute risk from the CBA portfolio to other banks and investors as well as to add risk via secondary loan markets where there is an appropriate return on capital.

Potential transactions will include secondary loan sales and purchases, risk participations, credit insurance and CDS hedges as well as structured transactions.

This role will have to the opportunity to be involved in;

• Financial modelling of potential transactions
• Analysing, interpreting and structuring of transactions to ensure optimal outcomes for both the bank and our clients
• Understanding prudential, policy and risk appetite to ensure that transactions are compliant
• Executing transactions end to end from inception to financial close as well as in-life management of those transactions until end of life.
• Developing strong relationships with a wide internal stakeholder network across Coverage, Capital Structuring and key support functions such as Risk, Tax, Finance and Legal
• Developing relationships with external counterparties that we may distribute risk to including insurers, brokers, peers at banks (CPM and loan trading desks) and investors / funds.
• Working in both structured and unstructured situations to resolve complex issues and meet customer needs

We're interested in hearing from people who have:

• Tertiary qualifications (Commerce / Economics / Finance preferred but not essential)
• An inquisitive mindset and ability to pick things up quickly
• An open approach to working on a variety of transactions that could be unstructured
• Prior experience in Coverage, Loan Product, Credit Risk or Credit Portfolio Management roles
• Intermediate to advanced Excel skills
• Good analytical skills with a strong attention to detail
• Effective communication skills with the ability to engage with a wide range of stakeholders
• On the job knowledge of institutional lending, risk management, capital management and/or derivative products

What we offer

This permanent opportunity will give you exposure to wide variety of active portfolio management and complex transactions and will interact with a wide range of stakeholders at all levels of the business. You'll be part of a team that is focused, flexible, hardworking and passionate about our shared vision to create the very best experience for our customers.

As the successful applicant you'll open the door of potential opportunities within Institutional Banking and Markets and be offered a competitive salary, stimulating work and a flexible working environment.

If you think this role is the right fit for you, we invite you to apply. Let's have a serious but informal chat about who you are and what drives you. We'd love to share our vision for the future of banking.

If you're already part of the Commonwealth Bank Group (including Bankwest, x15ventures), you'll need to apply through Sidekick to submit a valid application. We're keen to support you with the next step in your career.

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