Citi continues to enhance its business control and governance framework by building out Institutional Credit Management (ICM), a new function in the 1st Line of Defense, to house and consistently manage credit risk activities performed across its Institutional Client Group organization. ICM's objective is to provide integrated "end-to-end" credit underwriting, identification, measurement, management, and monitoring for wholesale credit risk across the enterprise. Within ICM, the CPE Underwriting function (ICM-CPE UW) provides analysis, greenlight, underwriting, first-line-of-defense credit approval and subsequent credit monitoring across all ICG wholesale credit businesses including Banking, Capital Markets, and Advisory (BCMA), Global Structured Products, Financings, and Securitizations (GSP-F&S), Treasury & Trade Services (TTS), Markets, and Securities Services (MSS).
The ICM Hedge Fund (HF) Portfolio Associate / AVP is responsible for helping manage Citi's credit risk to a portfolio of the firm's most complex and large Hedge Fund/Private Equity relationships. Primary activities include credit due diligence, credit reviews, credit approvals and monitoring of the portfolio within the risk appetite of the overall business strategy.
Responsibilities:
Work closely with Citi's business lines across all products, with a particular focus on Prime Brokerage, as well as 2nd LoD Risk Management
Assist in extensive client-interface through the due diligence meetings, assess creditworthiness of clients and assign credit ratings and tiers.
Prepare Credit Approval Memo process (CAM) and risk rating scorecards.
Help monitor compliance with trading agreements (NAV and/or performance ATEs, disclosure requirements) and Limits excesses
Help establish remediation plan for Limits and ATE breaches and remediate breaches in accordance with the plan
Report on limit excesses and limit excess aging
Review and monitor margin disputes, and establish Margin tolerance threshold for select clients where applicable
Assist with addressing FCR, IA and regulatory reviews / questions
Assist the team head in presentations and industry reports given to senior management, and regulatory reporting requirements
Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients, and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules, and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing, and reporting control issues with transparency.
Qualifications:
Less than 5 years of experience in financial services
Motivated and confident to drive change
Highly effective communication skills, used to partner with other groups and present findings and suggestions to management.
Attention to detail unaffected by high pressure situations
Advanced working knowledge of Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Access
Role is evaluated depending on the candidate's skillset and qualifications and can be AVP/Associate.
Education:
Bachelor's degree/University degree or equivalent experience
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