Associate, Financial Institutions Risk Asia

Job purpose:

• Maintain regular contacts and communications with the banking regulators, external rating agencies, and other major market players to keep abreast of the market development 
• Respond to enquires and maintain a collaborative relationship with Business and other Support Units with regards to counterparty risk of Financial Institutions in Asia.
• Maintain close communications and collaboration with the Global Risk Management teams in Asia and in Head Office.
• Assist to develop and implement the counterparty risk management framework in Asia.
• Recommend the counterparty risk policies, procedures and best practices for implementation in Asia.
• Ensure the risk policies, framework and proposals updated on timely basis.

• Prepare and review credit proposals on regular basis.
• Prepare risk control or monitoring reports on regular basis.
• Respond to ad-hoc credit proposal from business units.
• Monitor compliance with the risk procedures and guidelines for financial institutions in Asia.
• Report periodically to the Senior Management in Asia for material adverse development of Financial Institutions in Asia.
• Coordinate with various business units to ensure business proposal on timely basis.
• Maintain the credit risk system updated.
• Communicate regularly with the front offices to ensure the understanding of the latest risk policies and strategies of the Bank
• Follow up and keep abreast of market development with documentation, research, statements and communications from the banking regulators, external rating agencies, and other major market players

• Bachelor Degree holder in Accounting, Finance, or holder of CPA or ACCA or equivalent preferred.
• Minimum 3 years to 5 years of working experience in banking or financial services industries. Preference will be given to those with working experience in international banks.
• Preferred knowledge of treasury and capital market, trade finance and transaction banking products.
• Preferred knowledge of legal documentation relating to lending and treasury activities.
• Preferred knowledge of relevant regulatory, statutory and international banking and accounting requirements.
• Preferred knowledge of qualitative and quantitative analysis of counterparty risks, credit evaluation.

• Fluency in written and spoken English. Knowledge of Chinese Mandarin, other major Asian language, and / or Spanish would be advantages

• Strong analytical skills
• Proactive and strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to interact with senior management, multiple stakeholders and external contacts
• Able to work in a multi-functional and cross-cultural environment
• Proficient writing and delivery of presentations and documentation
• Demonstrate high reliability, quality and timeliness of deliverables