Job responsibilities
- Determine overall team structure and manage resource allocation across review execution.
- Leverage relationships to deepen awareness of credit trends/developments and share regulatory areas of focus across teams.
- Challenge the team to be innovative in coverage and approach and promote data analytic initiatives that support the department objectives.
- Openly communicate and cascade messages from the leadership team, stakeholders, and regulators.
- Promote an inclusive environment where all teammates are treated with fairness and respect.
- Maintain senior relationships (typically OC -1 level) providing advice, influence and credible challenge.
- Maintain relationship with Regulators and act as a main point of contact for Regulator requests, including understanding requirements and expectations for Credit Review coverage.
- Share concerns with the business / credit risk management and lead a common understanding / approach.
- Influence credit review methodology and operating processes across the department, working with Practices to ensure the methodology keeps pace with environmental change.
- Attend Risk Committee and other pertinent portfolio meetings regularly.
- Ensure consistent application of firmwide risk policy, credit procedures, consistency of credit review approach and compliance with methodology across the Consumer Credit Review portfolio.
Required qualifications, capabilities and skills
- Proven leader of others with at least 10 years of direct management experience.
- Experienced credit professional with a minimum of 20 years of consumer credit experience.
- Deep knowledge and understanding of consumer underwriting guidelines and principles and credit/financial analysis.
- Firm understanding of how to employ data analytics to monitor and assess the credit card portfolios.
- Minimum Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, or a related discipline.
- Demonstrated understanding of credit risk management principles and great analytical skills.
- Excellent oral and written communication and interpersonal skills required with ability to present complex and sensitive issues to management.
- Enthusiastic, self-motivated, effective in a dynamic fast-paced environment and willing to take personal risk, responsibility, and accountability.
- Works well alone and in teams, proactively shares information, supports colleagues, and encourages participation and development.
- Able to travel as required.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills
- Background in consumer credit underwriting, credit risk management and credit risk review.
- Previous Credit Review experience
- Masters or other advanced degree