We are looking for an experienced Asset Quality Review and Credit Risk Subject Matter for a contract through to 31st March 2026 initially. The role is with our London-based banking client.
Rate of pay: Up to £900 per day inside IR35 via an umbrella company
Hybrid: City of London 3 days a week; 2 days a week remote working
This role will implement solutions across the EMEA region, including the UK, France, Germany, Brussels, and Dubai.
Responsibilities include:
- As a specialist having 10+ years of experience around evaluating the quality of assets required for Asset Quality review
- Risk Assessment: Identify potential risks and vulnerabilities in asset portfolios, including non performing loans and impaired assets
- Regulatory compliance: ensure adherence to local and international regulations such as BASEL III and implementing them.
- Reporting on comprehensive reports on asset quality findings, including recommendations for mitigating risks.
- Work closely with risk management, audit teams to align asset quality reviews with a view to getting AQR certification for the firm.
- Experience in system integration to source and process data required to meet risk and regulatory processing and disclosures.
- Excellent communication skills with stakeholders at all levels including third parties with the ability to set and explain Risk Technology changes to a non-technical audience and mitigate issues and business impact caused by incidents.
- Able to understand business and technical concepts, identify potential issues and risks, and provide appropriate challenge or escalation accordingly.
- Leadership skills at a delivery level to motivate delivery stakeholders.
- Thorough understanding of IT controls and software development life cycle
- Working knowledge of Agile Scrum methodology and ability to manage Agile teams.
- Knowledge of data mining and analytics using tools such as Excel and SQL.
- Knowledge of the Software Development Lifecycle, software development techniques, and emerging technologies.
- Understanding of requirements under Basel II, III, IV as well as various BIS BCBS (eg, BCBS 239) and associated EMEA and UK regulations as they apply to Credit Risk.
Keywords: Credit Risk, AQR, Asset Quality review, SQL, data, VaR, SaaS, Basel, Agile, Scrum, software, SDLC, banking, bank, BCBS, EMEA