Associate - Global Credit Risk Operations

Key Responsibilities

• Produce standardized and ad‑hoc analytics covering exposures, counter parties, concentrations, countries, issuers, and portfolios.
• Interpret, distill, and present data insights for Senior Management, highlighting key trends and emerging risks.
• Partner with Operations, Technology, and Analytics teams to ensure data completeness, accuracy, and timely delivery.
• Support data investigations, source-to-target analysis, and metric validation.

• Own and maintain Credit Risk policies, procedures, standards, and control documentation.
• Support rating model governance, including documentation, validation processes, and periodic reviews.
• Coordinate Credit Committee processes and assist with minutes and supporting materials.
• Manage the global credit review calendar and ensure timely execution.
• Prepare materials for internal Audit, external regulators, and senior executives.
• Ensure compliance with internal governance frameworks and operational risk standards.

• Lead or support global technology and workflow initiatives (system migrations, workflow tool enhancements, process automation).
• Capture business requirements and develop well‑structured Business Requirements Documents (BRDs).
• Create and maintain current and future‑state process maps, technical workflow diagrams, and procedural documentation (MS Visio).
• Perform UAT, coordinate testing cycles, and partner with Technology to resolve issues across QA and production environments.
• Assist in project planning, presentations, status reporting, and milestone tracking.
• Identify process inefficiencies and recommend improvements across data, workflow, and governance functions.
• Act as a key liaison between Credit Risk, Technology, Operations, and other partner teams.

• Support departmental planning, reporting, resourcing, and operational oversight activities.
• Partner with senior leadership on cross‑departmental initiatives, including regulatory deliverables and strategic COO priorities.
• Contribute to management presentations, business updates, and organizational communications.

• 3+ years of experience in Counter party Credit Risk, capital markets, risk management, COO/business management, or related financial services roles.
• Strong understanding of capital markets (Fixed Income, FX, Equities, Securities Financing); knowledge of Credit Risk can be developed on the job.
• Proven ability to analyze, manipulate, and summarize large and complex datasets.
• Excellent organizational and documentation skills; able to manage multiple assignments with tight deadlines.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with experience engaging senior stakeholders.
• Advanced proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio.
• Programming experience in VBA or Python is a strong plus.
• Experience with business analysis, requirements gathering, or project management is preferred.
• Ability to quickly learn new systems, processes, and risk concepts.

New York, NY Full Time Salary Range of $

Jefferies is a leading global, full-service investment banking and capital markets firm that provides advisory, sales and trading, research, and wealth and asset management services. With more than 40 offices around the world, we offer insights and expertise to investors, companies, and governments. At Jefferies, we are committed to building a culture that provides opportunities for all employees regardless of our differences and supports a workforce that is reflective of the communities where we work and live.

As a result, we are able to pool our collective insights and intelligence to provide fresh and innovative thinking for our clients. Jefferies is committed to creating and sustaining a workforce that welcomes individuals from all backgrounds to apply. Our employment decisions are made without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, pregnancy, age, medical condition, physical or mental disability, marital status, domestic partner status, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, genetic information,…