Senior Underwriter, SVP (Corporates)

Citi continues to enhance its business control and governance framework by building out Institutional Credit Management (ICM), a first line of defense business line, to house and consistently manage credit risk activities performed for Citi’s institutional clients. ICM’s objective is to provide integrated end-to-end credit underwriting, identification, measurement, management, and monitoring for wholesale credit across the enterprise. Within ICM, the Credit Underwriting function (“ICM UW” or “UW”) provides credit analysis, underwriting, and first line of defense credit approval for periodic / material transaction reviews, and any necessary subsequent credit monitoring across all institutional business including Corporate Banking, Services, and Markets relationships.

Underwriters manage a team of analysts with a portfolio of relationships across Australia and New Zealand, being responsible for the continuous monitoring of that portfolio and the team. That includes the production of annual reviews, quarterly reviews, and the support of ad-hoc transactions and portfolio & industry reviews and stress testing, in partnership with Corporate Banking and Risk. This role reports to ICM UW CRMPS Japan and ANZ Head.

Key Responsibilities :

• Accountability for ensuring risk analysis of applicable portfolio is consistent with industry leading practices and conforms to all internal credit procedures / policies, and all related regulatory expectations
• Continuous engagement with applicable senior stakeholders in the region to understand any concerns regarding execution of risk analysis and / or emerging risks which will need to be addressed by the team
• Execute Region Head plans, strategy, and objectives for ICM UW
• Coordinate to address and escalate emerging risk concerns and to share best practices
• Ensure ongoing and timely feedback and coaching of Team to sustain a strong credit culture and an unwavering commitment to excellence in analysis and execution
• Partnership with applicable regional and industry stakeholders in in the design of credit assessment and monitoring standards for applicable portfolios
• Attract, develop, and retain top quality staff including as regards active engagement with regional on-campus recruiting efforts to ensure a robust pipeline of talent
• Actively participate in Training opportunities including instructor led courses; participate as guest speakers as applicable
• Support Head of ICM UW on internal projects and initiatives
• Support ICM UW Voice of the Employee (VOE) initiatives
• Travel (less than 10%)

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Qualifications :

Job Family Group : Risk Management

Job Family : Credit Risk

Time Type : Full time

Most Relevant Skills

Analytical Thinking, Constructive Debate, Escalation Management, Financial Analysis, Policy and Procedure, Policy and Regulation, Product Knowledge, Risk Controls and Monitors, Risk Identification and Assessment.

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