Counterparty Credit Risk Analyst

Job Description Summary We are seeking a highly analytical and technically proficient Counter party Credit Risk Analyst who enjoys combining financial analysis with data analytics, automation, and technology to improve how counter party risk is measured, monitored, and managed. This role is ideal for someone who is equally comfortable analyzing financial statements and building automated Excel models, querying large datasets, and developing dashboards that provide actionable risk insights.

Successful candidates will enjoy building analytical tools, automating manual processes, and leveraging data to improve the firm's counter party credit risk framework. Successful candidates will be intellectually curious, highly proficient with data, and motivated to improve existing processes through automation and modern analytical tools.

Successful candidates will enjoy building analytical tools, automating manual processes, and leveraging data to improve the firm's counter party credit risk framework. Successful candidates will be intellectually curious, highly proficient with data, and motivated to improve existing processes through automation and modern analytical tools.

Develop and maintain a strong understanding of the firm's counter parties, products, transactions, and counter party credit risk management framework.

Perform financial and qualitative analysis of counter parties, including broker-dealers, banks, asset managers, insurance companies, hedge funds, and other financial institutions.

Monitor counter party creditworthiness through analysis of financial performance, ratings actions, market indicators, industry developments, and news events.

Monitor and analyze counter party exposures, limits, concentrations, and utilization trends across counter parties and industry sectors.

Extract, transform, and analyze large datasets by querying Oracle and other enterprise databases using SQL, Excel, and other analytical tools to support counter party monitoring, exposure analysis, portfolio surveillance, and management reporting.

Identify emerging risks and potential deterioration in counter party credit profiles through ongoing surveillance and early warning monitoring.

Design, develop, and maintain automated analytical processes, Excel models, SQL queries, dashboards, and AI-enabled workflows that improve the efficiency, consistency, and scalability of counter party credit risk analysis.

Identify and implement opportunities to streamline manual processes through automation, scripting, workflow redesign, and continuous process improvement.

Conduct research on financial institutions, capital markets developments, regulatory changes, and macroeconomic trends relevant to counter party risk.

Prepare concise, insightful reporting and presentations for senior management, risk committees, and Board-level audiences.

Develop, maintain, and enhance dashboards, automated reporting processes, and data visualizations supporting counter party credit risk oversight.

Support counter party onboarding, annual reviews, risk assessments, and credit approval processes.

Partner with stakeholders across Risk, Treasury, Operations, Capital Markets, Legal, and Data & Technology teams to strengthen risk management capabilities.

Support risk framework enhancements, limit management initiatives, stress testing exercises, and strategic projects as assigned.

Knowledge of:

• Fundamental concepts, practices, and procedures of counter party credit risk management.
• Financial statement analysis and credit assessment methodologies.
• Financial institutions, capital markets, investment products, and market participants.
• Exposure measurement concepts, including current exposure, potential future exposure, concentration risk, wrong way risk and limit management.

Skill in:

• Strong analytical, critical-thinking, and problem-solving abilities.
• Financial statement analysis and credit assessment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate complex topics clearly and concisely.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including complex formulas, Pivot Tables, Power Query,…