Manager-risk Management - Ciudad de México - American Express Company

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Overview of The Department

Commercial Rating and Underwriting (CRU) sits within the Credit & Fraud Risk division and forms the institutional credit risk management function within American Express.

The CRU team plays the critical role of assessing and managing the risk of institutional exposures across all business units within American Express, and in all regions globally.

Credit exposures are primarily generated through corporate and small business card programs, via merchant service relationships where non-delivery risk exists, and among the securities portfolio held for firm-wide liquidity.

CRU is led from Salt Lake City with regional teams in New York, London, Singapore and Sydney.

In addition to determining the internal credit rating which drives the probability of default of each exposure, CRU also calculates the loss given default of these obligors while underwriting card programs.

As a bank holding company, American Express must comply with the highest global banking standards set by Basel and implemented by the bank's primarily regulatory, the Federal Reserve.

Managers in Commercial Rating & Underwriting are responsible for rating and underwriting credit exposures in their assigned region, industry, and business line.

Fundamental analysis incorporates a thorough review of business, financial, industry and country risk coupled with support from internal and external rating model outputs.

Assessment includes understanding of the need for credit extension, profitability of the relationship and program structures.

CRU managers interact with various constituents across the firm including front office sales, business unit risk partners, and credit administration to perform their critical role.

Desired Skills

• Expertise as a credit and underwriting decision maker dealing with commercial exposures ranging from small business or middlemarket to large, multinational institutions
• Thorough understanding of fundamental financial analysis including the ability to review corporate financial statements to determine the ability of the obligor to honor its credit obligations
• Comfort with GAAP/IFRS accounting standards, corporate valuation, and forecasting
• Knowledge of how probability of default and loss given default determine economic capital
• Experience in determining appropriate credit capacity, structuring of facilities, and risk mitigation techniques
• Familiarity with quantitative credit models (such as Moody's RiskCalc, CreditEdge, etc) and knowledge of how to interpret the outputs, and when deviation from the model has appropriate defense
• Comfort with public agency ratings and supporting analysis
• Understanding of current macroeconomic trends and how to provide recommendations to improve the PD estimation based on the business cycle
• Experience preparing companyspecific and industrywide credit memorandums
• Excellent judgment in making sound rating and underwriting decisions to maximize profitability and mitigate risk
• Familiarity with banking regulations, particularly those imposed by Basel Committee on Banking Supervision
• Familiarity with Bank Based Underwriting
• Familiarity with global markets, particularly in LatAm and South America markets
• Multilingual with a focus in Spanish & English capability

Months in their actual position:
For level 25 to 30: 12 months.
For level 30 to 35: 18 months.
For level 40 to 45: 24 months.


QUALIFICATIONS

• Minimum 4 years experience rating and / or underwriting at a leading financial institution or rating agency
• Bachelor's degree from a top tier university with high GPA and a degree (or substantial coursework) in finance, accounting, economics, or statistics
• Graduate degree with a finance or business emphasis, or Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation, is a plus

You Lead the Way. We've Got Your Back.

At American Express, we know that with the right backing, people and businesses have the power to progress in incredible ways.

Whether we're supporting our customers' financial confidence to move ahead, taking commerce to new heights, or encouraging people to explore the world, our colleagues are constantly redefining what's possible — and we're proud to back each other every step of the way.

When you join #TeamAmex, you become part of a diverse community of over 60,000 colleagues, all with a common goal to deli