Credit Risk Advisor (Financial Risk Management)

Position Summary

KPMG Financial Risk Management wish to recruit a Credit Risk Advisor to support with the delivery of credit risk related engagements for our financial services clients.

Key roles and responsibilities
The Credit Advisor will have the following responsibilities: 

• Assist in the development of a work plan, budget and quality plan to ensure efficiency, high performance and high-quality work on engagements.
• Maintaining a progress tracker of engagement milestones, tasks and deliverables. profit objectives and deliver designated engagement deliverables.
• Perform engagement recovery, quality risk management and administrative analysis. Undertake tasks as directed by engagement Manager. 
• Assisting in preparation of technical and commercial value propositions.
• Build an understanding of client business and markets to assist in the development of client relationships and developing a commercial mindset on how work performed impacts profitability at the engagement and practice levels.
• Manage pipeline and revenue as required, maintain a cross-selling value, meet individual targets and ensure proper billing and timely follow up.
• Supervise staff level engagement teams.
• Build industry knowledge through involvement in internal and external events, documenting and circulating articles and thought leadership.
• Any other duties and responsibilities as may be assigned from time to time.

Academic/Professional qualifications and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Actuarial, Financial engineering, Business, Engineering, Economics, Statistics, or related relevant degree course
• Must have 4 - 6 years of experience working in Financial Risk Management with a focus on Credit Risk. 
• Must have at least 3 years of experience working within and / or consulting for clients in the financial services sector (Banking & Insurance).
• Demonstrated experience in reviewing and/ or developing financial and credit risk models (IFRS 9 models, credit scorecards, stress testing models, operational models, etc.) 
• Good understanding of banking regulations across East Africa with a keen focus on regulatory capital regimes, capital and liquidity assessment programs, Basel guidelines, etc.
• Must have a relevant professional qualification such as FRM, ERM, ACCA, CFA, CPA . 
• Certifications in Stress Testing, ESG and climate risk would be an added advantage.

Technical competencies and Personal attributes:

• Exhibits commercial, technical and social awareness.
• Client focused delivery that is effective and efficient.
• Demonstrates creativity, agile performance and innovation in the way they work.
• Successful delivery of the risk initiatives as they arise.
• Ability to train and mentor team members on different tasks.
• Possess strong written, verbal and research skills with the ability to work well both autonomously and collaboratively.
• Resilience and Tenacity: must be able to always sustain motivation and commitment and can contain and absorb stressful moments and issues.
• Multicultural Skills: must be able to operate and interact in a multicultural environment and uphold cultural diversity; and
• Pragmatic Problem-Solving Skills: ability to handle and resolve unstructured problems and provide effective solutions or avenues for the solutions to come from other team members.

We offer:

• An exciting opportunity to work with a Big 4 firm on cutting edge clients across Africa. 
• Continuous learning and development.
• Exposure to multi-disciplinary client service teams.
• Unrivalled space to grow and be innovative.