Wholesale Credit Risk EMEA – Diversified Industries – Vice President

This role provides you with a fantastic opportunity to work in one of the world's most innovative banks.

As a Vice President within the Diversified Industries Corporates Team, you will be covering clients for the Commercial & Investment Bank. You will also cover a wide range of Leveraged (both Private Equity-owned and Corporate) and Investment Grade clients in the Automotive, Capital Goods, Aerospace & Defence, Business Services, Airlines and Transportation sectors. In this role, you will benefit from flexible work arrangements, including work-from-home and office rotations.

Job Responsibilities

1. Works as a team to negotiate and develop recommendations for new transaction approvals across a variety of products including secured and unsecured loans (general corporate purposes or event driven), derivatives, trade and treasury products.
2. Leads due diligence and credit analysis to assess the credit worthiness of counterparties and make recommendations as to appropriate structure, risk appetite and grading.
3. Leads structuring and documentation negotiations (Investment Grade or Leveraged), derivatives and other facilities.
4. Commits to development personally and foster team knowledge. Coaching & training members of the Analyst and Associate community on both technical and professional skills.
5. Manages ongoing credit risk portfolio including monitoring of credit ratings, sector trends and client performance.
6. Balances a commercial and solution-driven mindset with a sound risks & controls attitude to the Firm’s balance sheet.
7. Develops close working relationships at senior levels with a variety of stakeholders within the Commercial & Investment Bank, including Coverage/Corporate Bank (mid and large caps) product specialists (DCM, LF, Trade, TSS), Markets (Derivative Sales), Capital Markets and M&A. Understands J.P. Morgan’s Risk management policies and related interactions with various stakeholders, including Regulators and Auditors.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

1. Sound credit skills and judgment, with a proactive and flexible approach to coordinating and leading credit processes as well as identifying key risks and appropriate mitigants.
2. Good interpersonal and communication skills. Be able to establish credibility and trust with internal business and risk stakeholders.
3. Demonstrate working knowledge of transaction structures, documentation and banking products sufficient to lead the execution of new deals and portfolio workstreams.
4. Ability to be a self-starter while being able to work effectively in a team environment.
5. Minimum of 5 years of experience in a comparable environment.

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

1. Previous experience leading loan documentation negotiations/core corporate derivative documentation is recommended (IG, non IG, Sponsor type).
2. Experience in Sponsor deal financings or expertise in relevant Industrial sectors is beneficial but not essential.