Head of Credit Quality Assurance

HEAD OF CREDIT QUALITY ASSURANCE - Credit Risk

RATE - £550 - £650 pd

DURATION - 6 months

LOCATION - Manchester

START DATE - ASAP

My client, a leading bank, are looking for a Head of Credit Quality Assurance to be based in Manchester.

The successful candidate will be required to challenge the adequacy of regulatory, FLOD and internal audit remediation activities within areas or products under review, including but not limited to the adequacy and effectiveness of all credit risk related processes.

As a senior member of the Risk Assurance team, you will be required to provide oversight and challenge of Credit Risk management across all Wholesale functions, including oversight of the adequacy and effectiveness of actions resulting from specific CQA and FLOD intervention in line with regulatory expectations.

Ideally the candidate will have experience of analysing credit matters in the business and identify real counterparty and portfolio credit risk issues in order to simplify and create risk management solutions. They will also excellent analytical problem solving skills including an ability to break down complex problems into a small number of key issues, incorporating strong business knowledge into producing and articulating analyses to resolve each issue (where necessary, outsourcing those analyses to subject matter experts), whilst retaining overall responsibility for the quality and coherence of the resulting solutions.

ESSENTIAL EXPERIENCE

- Expert in Credit Risk/Deep Dive review
- Experience in risk assessments on a Counter-Party/Control Basis
- Portfolio Management - review findings & PROVIDE OPINIONS and have a Holistic view - provides quantitative and qualitative feedback.
- Must have led/managed a team
- General knowledge of technology issues from a business perspective.
- Strong business awareness in leveraging an organisational and cultural insight to ensure delivery of solutions commensurate with the Bank's risk strategy.
- Strong project management skills, with a demonstrated ability to deliver end-to-end project execution with minimal supervision and under significant time pressure.

IF YOU FEEL THAT YOU ARE SUITABLE FOR THIS ROLE PLEASE SEND ME AN UP TO DATE COPY OF YOUR CV