Job Description
Skills and attributes for success:
- Ability to learn quickly and adapt to new scenarios, circumstances, and projects
- Develop and maintain client relationships at appropriate levels
- Ability to translate ideas and information into clear and compelling client presentations
- Relentlessly deliver exceptional client service
- Consistently mentor and develop your peers and junior team members
- Support the development and delivery of high-quality work products
- Strong communication, critical thinking, analytical, problem solving, and managerial skills
- Ability to provide constructive feedback and coaching to junior team members, and fostering an innovative and inclusive, team-oriented work environment
- Strong team building and collaboration skills
- Staying abreast of industry trends relevant to our clients’ businesses
To qualify for the role, you must have:
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, economics, accounting, engineering or a related discipline; an MBA or Master’s is a plus
- 2+ years of relevant experience in in financial services (e.g., Consulting, Program/Project Management, Banking (Client Front Office, Underwriting, Portfolio Management, Credit Analysis, etc.), ratings agency, regulatory organization) or a graduate degree and approximately 1+ years of related work experience or a graduate degree and approximately 1+ years of related work experience
- Strong written and verbal communication, presentation, client service, and problem-solving skills, coupled with a strong interest in further developing industry and deep content knowledge in the Credit Risk space
- Ability to travel – you will likely spend a significant amount of time on-site with our clients. This travel can be as much as 80% to 100% of a work week at times
- A willingness to operate under a hybrid work environment (typically 40 to 60% of the week in an EY office with your team when not on-site with a client)
Ideally, you’ll also have experience in:
- Strong understanding of the credit lifecycle (e.g., sales/origination, underwriting, fulfillment, servicing, loan accounting, monitoring, and default)
- Demonstrable experience working as part of a cross-functional or multi-disciplinary team
- Strong executive presentation skills, with the ability to influence peers and management
- Experience with process improvement or process optimization
- Foundational knowledge of regulations or supervisory guidelines impacting Credit Risk Management functions (e.g., OCC Heightened Standards)
- Foundational knowledge of Counterparty Credit Risk products (e.g., derivatives, repurchase agreements, securities lending, and prime brokerage/margin loans) and concepts (e.g., potential future exposure (PFE), settlement risk, wrong way risk (WWR), risk factor sensitivities, counterparty stress testing and capital)