Director of Risk Management

Duration
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Permanent Hire

Schedule
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Hybrid Schedule, 3 days in office (Monday/Tue/Thur office days)

Start Date: ASAP

Must Haves:

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business Management, Mathematics or related field required.
• Minimum of 9 years of experience in risk management with team leadership responsibilities, ideally in an asset financing environment.
• Experience in credit risk underwriting and familiarity with broader credit function processes and controls.
• KYC

Plusses:

• Experience with shipping, logistics, or transportation industry
• Familiarity with Bridger Insight (risk assessment tool)
• Previous experience with Dynamar reports
• Experience using Credit Save or Credit Risk

Purpose
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This function is responsible for managing business risks of our client's global leasing activities, with primary focus on credit risk management, collections and default actions, KYC compliance and insurance oversight. The position will actively lead the risk team’s daily processes and be a key interface with clients front-end marketing team and governance oversight stakeholders.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Lead client's risk team’s efforts to identify, evaluate, plan, and execute strategies to manage risk while working in conjunction with senior management and colleagues to support profitable growth.
• Oversee and support credit risk processes including evaluation of new lease credit lines, application approval process and periodic credit line and risk rating reviews. As the functional leader, provide direction to manage appropriate risk tolerances with consideration of developments in the industry’s risk environment.
• Lead process to ensure Know Your Customer (KYC) and sanction compliance, including evaluation of updates to customer’s corporate profiles.
• Ensure team’s operational processes are supported including routine transactional decisions and active collections of delinquent accounts.
• Lead default resolution efforts in coordination with other functions (legal, marketing and management team).
• Lead annual process to review and bind insurance coverage of customary corporate risks and clients leased asset fleet liability risks, including liaising with insurance brokers, preparing data for quotes, and maintaining schedules of insurance.
• Ensure compliance with corporate policies and reporting requirements
• Maintain department policies, operating procedures, and key metrics; support audit needs as applicable.