We are looking for a dedicated and motivated individual who has strong technical, analytical and organizational skills for our Lending Services team.
Key responsibilities
This is a team management role, with responsibility for overseeing a team engaged in the following activities:
- Maintaining high quality in the below workflows by performing quality checks, providing training, mentoring and upskilling juniors:
- Spreading of the financial statements of corporates in the client proprietary platform.
- Analysis of financial statements of public and private companies for the credit appraisal process
- Conducting background research independently to understand the appropriate KPIs that are relevant to each borrower
- Monitoring covenants on a regular basis, performing validations and highlighting any Early Warning Signals
- Carrying out written credit appraisals, risk ratings, and credit notes for credit approvals
- Inspiring and managing a team of analysts, planning workflows and liaising with global clients in ensuring that deadlines are met at the required standard
- Contributing to process improvement, providing value adds to the deliverables and automation of tasks
- Providing domain expertise in credit notes and credit appraisals
- Communicating clearly and confidently with internal and external stakeholdersboth written and verbal
- Providing strategic thought leadership through the authoring of blogs and whitepapers on trending topic
Key competencies
- 11-16 years of experience in Commercial lending (corporate/wholesale lending) operations including origination, underwriting and portfolio monitoring activities
- Familiarity and expertise in a specific sector will be an added advantage
- Experience in complete delivery set-up, smooth roll-out of services and the implementation of best practices, feedback mechanisms, hiring and training the team
- Good knowledge of the products involved in entire value chain of commercial lending including underwriting, covenant monitoring, and portfolio monitoring.
- Hands on experience in carrying out tasks like credit appraisals, finalizing risk ratings, credit notes for credit approvals and ongoing monitoring.
- Excellent understanding of the financial statements of the corporates
- A Masters in Business Administration and/or a full/ part qualification in CFA will be an added advantage.
- A highly analytical mind and a high level of attention to detail
- Excellent written and spoken English communication skills
- The ability to work independently and meet deadlines under pressure.