DTCC

Counterparty Credit Risk Senior Associate

DTCC$100K — $130K *
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Minimum of 6 years of relevant experience in credit risk or financial analysis.
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience preferred.
  • Advanced understanding of credit risk assessments and financial statement analysis.
  • Familiarity with regulatory frameworks impacting financial services.
  • Experience managing complex portfolios and applying credit risk methodologies.

Responsibilities

  • Analyze financial statements to identify credit risks and trends for financial institutions.
  • Perform annual reviews and ongoing surveillance of member firms to assess creditworthiness.
  • Assist in designing credit risk monitoring tools and automation initiatives.
  • Collaborate with various internal departments to enhance credit risk management practices.
  • Evaluate new member applications against DTCC financial requirements.
  • Understand and apply DTCC business processes and credit risk strategies.
  • Maintain a portfolio of complex counterparties, ensuring compliance with risk policies.
  • Align daily tasks with risk control processes to effectively monitor and mitigate risks.

Benefits

  • Opportunity for professional development and continuous learning in a dynamic environment.
  • Access to a collaborative team culture with a focus on transparency and communication.
  • Exposure to a spectrum of risk types, enhancing strategic decision-making skills.
  • Support for coaching and mentoring within the team to foster individual growth.
Full Job Description
Job Description

The Impact you will have in this role:

Systemic Risk is defined as the risk that the effect of adverse events within the broadly defined financial services industry, including the financial industries critical infrastructures, caused by members or inflicted through external channels, are transmitted across the industry, markets, products and or structures. Counterparty Credit Risk is primarily responsible for assessing the financial stability of DTCC's member firms by interpreting financial statements of banks, broker-dealers, and other financial firms The Counterparty Credit Risk team is primarily responsible for assessing the financial stability of DTCC's member firms by interpreting financial statements of banks, broker-dealers, and other financial firms. The team is responsible for a portfolio of member firms and is required to perform annual reviews and ongoing surveillance, as well as review new member applications. The team is also tasked with maintenance of the credit risk rating matrix and assessing compliance with established financial parameters and keeping current on new accounting and regulatory pronouncements that impact member firms.

Your Primary Responsibilities:
  • Accountable for analyzing financial statements and applying credit expertise and judgement to identify credit risks, mitigants, and trends for financial institutions' (e.g., banks, broker-dealers, etc.).
  • Independently perform annual reviews and ongoing surveillance of member firms to assess their creditworthiness and proactively identify member firms that need to be subjected to additional surveillance or mitigants.
  • Apply advanced credit knowledge to assist with the design of credit risk monitoring tools, automation, and other risk-related initiatives.
  • Collaborate and develop relationships with internal departments (Market Risk, Product Management, Relationship Management, Legal, and Compliance, etc.), including senior staff of those departments.
  • Analyze new member full-service applications to assess whether the applicants' financial condition meets DTCC member requirements.
  • Apply an advanced understanding of DTCC's business, CCR's processes, and the risk environment.
  • Demonstrate values across the team and for junior department members, including adherence to risk-related policies, regulatory awareness, and promoting a risk management mindset.
  • Responsible for a portfolio of more complex counterparties.
  • Aligns risk and control processes into day-to-day responsibilities to monitor and mitigate risk; escalates appropriately

**NOTE: The Primary Responsibilities of this role are not limited to the details above. **

Qualifications:
  • Minimum of 6 years of related experience
  • Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience

Talents Needed for Success:
  • Fosters a culture where honesty and transparency are expected.
  • Stays current on changes in his/her own specialist area and seeks out learning opportunities to ensure knowledge is up to date.
  • Invests in effort to individually coach others.
  • Build collaborative teams across the organization.
  • Communicates openly keeping everyone across the organization informed.

The salary range is indicative for roles at the same level within DTCC across all US locations. Actual salary is determined based on the role, location, individual experience, skills, and other considerations.

About the Team

Our Risk Management teams work to protect the safety and soundness of our systems and are responsible for identifying, managing, measuring and mitigating a spectrum of key risk types including credit, market, liquidity, systemic, operational and technology in all existing and new products, activities, processes and systems.

About DTCC

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) is a financial services company that provides clearing, settlement, and information services for the global financial industry. DTCC was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in New York City. The company operates through subsidiaries that provide services such as trade matching, risk management, and asset servicing. DTCC is owned by its users, which include broker-dealers, banks, and other financial institutions. The company is committed to reducing risk and increasing efficiency in the financial markets.
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Size
4,000 employees
Industry
Founded
1973

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