DTCC

Counterparty Credit Risk Senior Associate

DTCC$110K — $130K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 4-6 years of relevant experience in risk management or finance.
  • Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent practical experience.
  • Strong analytical skills with expertise in financial statement interpretation.
  • Advanced understanding of credit risk mechanisms and methodologies.
  • Effective communication and collaboration skills across various teams.

Responsibilities

  • Analyze financial statements to identify credit risks and trends in financial institutions.
  • Conduct annual reviews and ongoing surveillance of member firms to evaluate creditworthiness.
  • Develop and implement credit risk monitoring tools and initiatives.
  • Build and maintain relationships with internal departments such as Legal, Market Risk, and Compliance.
  • Assess new member applications to determine financial condition suitability for membership.
  • Ensure adherence to risk-related policies and promote a risk management mindset among team members.
  • Manage a portfolio of more complex counterparties and their associated risks.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance and wellness programs.
  • Professional development opportunities and training resources.
  • Collaborative work culture promoting honesty and transparency.
  • Support for work-life balance initiatives.
  • Opportunities for coaching and mentorship within the team.
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 experise 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

Qualifications:
  • Minimum of 4-6 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 effort to individually coach others.
  • Builds 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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