Senior Manager- Trade & Credit Risk Management

We are partnering with a highly regarded international organisation to appoint a senior Credit Risk Manager into a visible leadership role within its London-based risk function.

Senior Credit Risk Manager – Trading/Commodities

Robert Walters is partnering with a highly regarded international organisation to appoint a senior Credit Risk Manager into a visible leadership role within its London-based risk function.

This role will suit someone from a commodity trading, energy, mining, international trading or similarly transactional environment.

The role

You will lead a team of credit and risk professionals and act as a senior adviser across a broad range of trading and commercial activity.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Leading, developing and providing technical oversight to a team of Credit and Risk Analysts.

• Assessing counterparty creditworthiness, financial strength, credit limits, payment terms and ongoing exposure.

• Reviewing complex credit applications, transaction-risk assessments and senior-management approval papers.

• Advising commercial teams throughout the lifecycle of transactions, from initial review and structuring through to approval and monitoring.

• Evaluating wider transaction risks, including contract terms, delivery and payment mechanics, country exposure and concentration risk.

• Recommending appropriate credit-risk mitigants, including trade-credit insurance, guarantees, letters of credit, collateral and revised commercial terms.

About you

You will bring:

• Proven credit-risk and financial-analysis experience, including counterparty assessment, limit setting, exposure management and ongoing monitoring.

• Direct experience supporting commercial or trading transactions—ideally within commodities, energy, mining, international trade or a comparable environment.

• Experience using or recommending instruments such as guarantees, letters of credit, trade-credit insurance, collateral or parent-company support.

• Previous people-management experience, including coaching, reviewing analytical work and developing a team.

• The ability to influence and constructively challenge commercial stakeholders and senior management.

If you meet the above set criteria, please apply or send a copy of your CV to hadjra.sohawon@robertwalters.com

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