Deutsche Bank UK | Senior Credit Risk Officer

Responsibilities

• The role entails providing expert credit analysis and comprehensive risk management oversight for hedge fund clients.
• The role involves assigning and approving internal credit ratings, reviewing trading and financing transactions, and assessing the adequacy of collateral and legal protections.
• The Credit Officer will be responsible for managing a portfolio of hedge fund counterparties across a broad range of investment strategies and products, including derivatives, financing transactions, and securities financing activities.
• The opportunity to support a wide ranging CSR programme + 2 days’ volunteering leave per year
• You will also exercise delegated credit authority and represent Credit Risk Management in credit committees, transaction approval discussions, and governance forums, providing independent challenge and risk recommendations to senior stakeholders.
• Working - we understand that employee expectations and preferences are changing.
• Perform comprehensive credit assessments of hedge funds and fund management groups, analysing investment performance, portfolio composition, leverage utilisation, liquidity characteristics, valuation methodologies, financing arrangements, and operational risk controls.

Your skills and experience

• Experience in credit risk, counterparty risk, market risk, hedge fund due diligence, prime brokerage risk, or related discipline.
• Strong knowledge of hedge fund structures, operating models, and investment strategies, including long/short equity, multi-strategy, event-driven, relative value, macro, quantitative/systematic and credit-oriented approaches.
• Experience performing fundamental credit analysis and risk assessments of investment funds, asset managers, or other financial institutions.
• In addition to having an understanding hedge fund leverage methodologies, liquidity management frameworks, portfolio construction techniques, and risk measurement tools.
• Product knowledge covering derivatives, securities financing transactions, repo, prime brokerage, and financing products, together with an understanding of their associated counterparty and market risks.
• Experience reviewing and negotiating legal documentation, including ISDA Master Agreements, Credit Support Annexes and other trading and financing agreements.
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills, including the interpretation of financial statements, performance reporting, portfolio exposures, and risk metrics.
• Alongside excellent written communication skills with the ability to prepare concise and persuasive credit assessments and present recommendations to senior stakeholders and credit committees.
• Proven ability to leverage AI tools to enhance productivity, optimise workflows to solve business problems, while applying critical judgment to ensure responsible and ethical use of data and AI outputs.

Deutsche Bank UK

Deutsche Bank UK is an employer hiring in India (sector: BFSI / Investments / Insurance). In its own words: "A global bank with global opportunities – discover careers with a difference at Deutsche Bank."

Its finance, accounts, audit and tax openings in India are mostly in London.

• Industry: BFSI / Investments / Insurance