Credit Risk Manager

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VN-20113

Permanent

London

Up to £130,000

17 September 2021

We are recruiting a Credit Risk Manager to provide independent oversight of Credit Risk for the Legal & General Retirement (LGR) division, supporting both LGR Institutional (LGRI) and LGR Retail (LGRR).

You will work collaboratively with 1st Line teams to deliver business objectives within the agreed risk framework, tolerances and guidance, providing independent advice, feedback and challenge to inform business decisions.

  • Providing active oversight of the LGR investment portfolio, monitoring and improving MI, ensuring adherence to risk limits and appropriate risk measurements, and providing advice, feedback and challenge to improve Credit and Climate Risk management practice. Proactively engaging with 1st Line to ensure issues are addressed in a timely fashion. 
  • Maintaining the Credit Risk framework, ensuring adherence to policy, governance and risk appetite. This may involve chairing the LGR Asset Sub-Committee and contributing to other committees as appropriate.
  • Supporting 1st Line in introducing new investment asset classes by ensuring that risks are identified, analysed, measured, appropriately mitigated and that appropriate governance is followed.
  • Providing expertise, analysis and effective risk management, working collaboratively with 1st and 2nd Line stakeholders to ensure an optimal outcome.
  • Supporting 1st Line in providing timely credit analysis for major business transactions, developing mitigants and, if needed, systematic frameworks to identify, analyse and measure credit and other risks, and supporting pricing analysis.
  • Working with Group Risk and other Risk stakeholders to implement new policies, strategies and ways of working as part of a holistic, collaborative and robust approach to risk management. 
  • Ensuring fair customer treatment is considered with all transactions, as appropriate.
  • Solid experience of Credit Risk Management, including private lending transactions
  • Detailed knowledge of UK and US commercial banking/debt markets, ideally covering public and private markets and a number of relevant sectors (e.g. Private Credit, Real Estate Lending, Property, Infrastructure)
  • Direct experience of US credit markets would be very desirable.
  • Detailed knowledge of the business model and balance sheet structure of a life insurer, as well as the Solvency II regulatory capital framework
  • Stong analytical and communication skills
  • Risk management experience of transitioning an investment portfolio to a reduced carbon footprint would be useful.

Whatever your role, we reward ability, performance and attitude with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Our employees have a wide range of benefits including a generous pension scheme, life assurance, 30 days' holiday, private medical insurance, performance related bonuses, discounts at both a huge range of high street stores and our own great products, as well as a 12% car allowance scheme. Your hard work will be rewarded when you join us.

About L&G

As a company, to be one of the world's largest Asset Managers, homebuilders, pension providers and insurances brands, we are diverse by our very nature. And we're a company that wants to use our diversity and influence to make society better in the long term - for everyone. To do this we need to be a company that welcomes everyone, where everyone can succeed. That means we're committed to building an inclusive culture in L&G where we can all perform at our best, no matter who we are, what we do or where we do it. So whoever you are, wherever you are, whatever your story, we'd love to hear from you.

About the business area

Legal & General Retirement Institutional (LGRI) is the UK’s longest-serving active bulk annuity provider. In the last 30 years we have written more UK business than any other insurer and currently look after over half a million pension policyholders.  We are a market-leading and multi-award winning business.  

We work with companies and pension scheme trustees  to help them honour their Defined Benefit pension promises to their employees. We do this through bulk annuity insurance transactions or pension ‘buy-ins’ or ‘buyouts’, which enable pension trustees to secure their scheme members’ benefits with us. By doing this we:

  • help companies to settle their pension liabilities and focus on growing their businesses
  • help to support individuals' financial security in retirement
  • invest for the long term to back our pension promises.

Our commitment to Equal Opportunities

We’re an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, gender identity or age.

Does this opportunity excite you but you’re not 100% sure if you meet all the requirements for the role? Or are you concerned that ‘normal’ office hours aren’t possible given your personal circumstances? We’re aware that candidates, especially women, can be put off from applying for a job unless they tick every box, or candidates who are parents or have other caring responsibilities may not think they can achieve the flexibility they need. If this is you, we’re keen to connect; and whilst we can’t accommodate every flexible working request, we’ll try to find a practical solution. So why not apply?

 

How to find out more

If you’d like more information about this opportunity please contact Khalifa Mustapha at Khalifa.Mustapha@lgim.com (LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/khalifa-mustapha-81579a68/). Please note direct applications via email cannot be accepted for this role; only applications submitted through our careers website will be considered.

About L&G

As a company, to be one of the world's largest Asset Managers, homebuilders, pension providers and insurances brands, we are diverse by our very nature. And we're a company that wants to use our diversity and influence to make society better in the long term - for everyone. To do this we need to be a company that welcomes everyone, where everyone can succeed. That means we're committed to building an inclusive culture in L&G where we can all perform at our best, no matter who we are, what we do or where we do it. So whoever you are, wherever you are, whatever your story, we'd love to hear from you.

About the business area

Legal & General Retirement Institutional (LGRI) is the UK’s longest-serving active bulk annuity provider. In the last 30 years we have written more UK business than any other insurer and currently look after over half a million pension policyholders.  We are a market-leading and multi-award winning business.  

We work with companies and pension scheme trustees  to help them honour their Defined Benefit pension promises to their employees. We do this through bulk annuity insurance transactions or pension ‘buy-ins’ or ‘buyouts’, which enable pension trustees to secure their scheme members’ benefits with us. By doing this we:

  • help companies to settle their pension liabilities and focus on growing their businesses
  • help to support individuals' financial security in retirement
  • invest for the long term to back our pension promises.

Our commitment to Equal Opportunities

We’re an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, gender identity or age.

Does this opportunity excite you but you’re not 100% sure if you meet all the requirements for the role? Or are you concerned that ‘normal’ office hours aren’t possible given your personal circumstances? We’re aware that candidates, especially women, can be put off from applying for a job unless they tick every box, or candidates who are parents or have other caring responsibilities may not think they can achieve the flexibility they need. If this is you, we’re keen to connect; and whilst we can’t accommodate every flexible working request, we’ll try to find a practical solution. So why not apply?

 

How to find out more

If you’d like more information about this opportunity please contact Khalifa Mustapha at Khalifa.Mustapha@lgim.com (LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/khalifa-mustapha-81579a68/). Please note direct applications via email cannot be accepted for this role; only applications submitted through our careers website will be considered.