JPMorgan Special Credits Group EMEA/APAC Vice President 

United Kingdom, England, London 

861598935

Special Credits Group

As theSpecial Credits Officer in theSpecial Credits Group (SCG) team, you will play a pivotal role inmanaging a portfolio of stressed and distressed credits in both EMEA and Asia-Pacific. In SCG, you will focus on risk-managing and maximizing the recovery of JP Morgan’s credit exposure through early intervention in and financial restructuring of stressed/distressed borrowers.

Job responsibilities

• Assist internal transaction teams on new originations and restructurings with complex legal, financial, reputational, and jurisdictional issues and coordinate with payments and operations partners to mitigate potential payments or settlement risk
• Collaborate with internal deal teams including Corporate/Financial Institutions Group/Emerging Markets Credit Risk Management, Coverage, Banking, Leveraged Finance, Payments, Legal, Compliance and Secondary Loan Trading; reviewing legal, financial and jurisdictional issues with an objective of improving credit structures on transactions
• Work with lenders, company management, financial advisors, and outside counsel on generating optimal solutions for the repayment of credit exposure and preserving important client relationships
• Assist in the credit decision-making process in live stressed/distressed situations on an advisory/managed basis
• Prepare quarterly Credit Surveillance, accounting and regulatory reporting on portfolio names
• Develop exposure management and evaluating loan sale opportunities, preparing valuations on securities/ other instruments received from previous restructurings and formulating trading and disposal strategies

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Significant experience of Credit Risk and/or Leveraged Finance experience
• Relevant restructuring or leveraged finance structuring experience across multiple jurisdictions, as well as previous exposure to managing large lending syndicates or executing complex leveraged transactions
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills
• Able to work well under pressure in a demanding environment

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Prior experience of participating in complex restructuring transactions
• Network across major restructuring advisory and law firms