Commercial Credit Risk Director - SVP
Florham Park, United States of America
The Commercial Credit Risk Director must have
- Strong Commercial Banking background
- Recent experience to be Credit Risk related
- Approval/signing authority
- Experience of interaction with internal auditors/risk reviewers and/or external regulators
The Commercial Credit Risk Director – Senior Vice President is responsible for risk analysis and independent oversight of credit quality of assigned portfolios. The incumbent is responsible for all aspects of credit quality including compliance with requirements of regulators and internal control and will recommend opportunities and proposed resolutions for improved efficiency, effectiveness, and/or risk reduction for the department.
Job Description:
- Ensures adherence to the policies and procedures established by the company.
- Manages policy, standard definition and monitoring of policy, standard implementation, ensuring harmonization and consistency of risk policies.
- Monitors and manages risk/exposure and compliance with the company's policies. Identifies, manages, and reports on the company's risk areas.
- Evaluates the adequacy and effectiveness of data, document retention, and monitors systems.
Functions & Responsibilities:
- Partners with Business Lines to recommend and vet new products initiatives, origination strategies, pre-approval and pre-qualification campaigns, underwriting techniques, peer group comparisons, and process optimization.
- Assesses asset quality, status and appropriateness or existing risk controls/compliance with established underwriting policies/risk tolerance.
- Ensures underwriting credit analysis is sound and justifies/mitigates the identified credit risk.
- Provides a comprehensive range of risk management expertise requiring the creation, implementation and validation of various risk segmentation strategies using complex data.
Qualifications:
- To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.
- The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.
- Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Education: Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience.
Work Experience: 12-15 years - Risk Management, Credit Risk, or Internal Audit with underwriting, portfolio management, or credit officer experience.
Skills and Abilities:
- Advanced knowledge and understanding/competency in regulatory matters and compliance.
- Advanced risk, process, and control validation and/or assessment skills.
- Advanced credit and risk, process, and control validation and/or assessment skills.
- Ability to independently operate in a complex, matrixed environment; adept at delivering and maintaining productive working relationships across business, functions, geographies, and lines of defense.
- Demonstrated history of interacting and influencing regulators, external and internal audit.
- Demonstrated expertise in Consumer and Banking businesses and applicable rules, regulations, and processes.
- Strong risk management principles, methodologies and tools, governance principles and activity preferably in a financial services technology environment.
Diversity & EEO Statements:
- At Santander, we value and respect differences in our workforce and strive to increase the diversity of our teams.
- We actively encourage everyone to apply.
- Santander is an equal opportunity employer.
- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Working Conditions:
- Frequent Minimal physical effort such as sitting, standing, and walking.
- Occasional moving and lifting equipment and furniture is required to support onsite and offsite meeting setup and teardown.
- Physically capable of lifting up to fifty pounds, able to bend, kneel, climb ladders.
Employer Rights:
- This job description does not list all of the job duties of the job.
- You may be asked by your supervisors or managers to perform other duties.
- You may be evaluated in part based upon your performance of the tasks listed in this job description.
- The employer has the right to revise this job description at any time.
- This job description is not a contract for employment and either you or the employer may terminate at any time for any reason.
Primary Location: Florham Park, NJ, Florham Park
Other Locations: New Jersey-Florham Park,Texas-Dallas,New York-Melville,New York-New York,Pennsylvania-Conshohocken,Massachusetts-Boston
Organization: Santander Holdings USA, Inc.