Credit Risk Manager

Company Description

**MET Group **is an integrated European energy company, headquartered in Switzerland, with activities in natural gas and power, focused on multi-commodity wholesale, trading and sales, as well as energy infrastructure and industrial assets.

**MET Group **is represented in 13 European countries, with 800+ permanent staff in France, Bulgaria, Croatia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey and Ukraine.

**MET **Group **is present in 27 national gas markets and 22 international trading hubs. The Group has a significant end-consumer presence in Croatia, Italy, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, and Spain.

**MET **Group **is owned 90% by MET employees and 10% by Keppel Infrastructure, a wholly owned subsidiary of Keppel Corporation *.

**Job Description**:
**OBJECTIVE OF THE ROLE**

The Credit Risk Manager will design, implement and maintain the credit risk management processes (e.g. credit risk assessment, risk mitigation strategy, risk monitoring and transfer) and rules (e.g. governance and approval levels) for the energy retail sales activities in the European markets in which MET Group is established, with a focus on Western Europe. The person will coordinate and work in close cooperation with local CFOs and credit expert and with the Group Credit Risk team to develop an efficient and integrated risk management approach, based on data collection and integration. As part of the duties, the person will participate in the digitalization of the credit risk management activities and reporting.

**Essential responsibilities**
- Responsibility for implementing operational excellence on credit risk management processes, by standardizing and harmonizing all credit risk related activities, data architecture for energy retail sales
- Representing the retails sales business line in the group credit risk management digitalization initiatives by collecting and documenting functional requirement and processes
- Working on the design and updates of the the Credit Risk Group and Local Policies and processes (e.g. collateral strategy - portfolio insurance - or group credit risk mitigation strategy)
- Negotiates and maintains effectives credit risk mitigations (e.g. collaterals, credit insurances) to ensure credit risk remains within approved limits
- Collaborating with the Quantitative Risk Management Team for developing and maintaining Credit Risk assessment models to proactively measure, report, mitigate and manage credit risk
- Creating and evolving monitoring dashboards on the retail sales credit exposures and collaterals for the Group (i.e. aggregating and analyzing the data flows/databases)
- Monitoring and supporting the activities of the local CFOs/ credit managers
- Running controlling responsibilities for credit risk assessment of relevant counterparts for the sales subsidiaries, facilitating the approval process (e.g. review of financial analysis of counterparties, collaborate with Group Head of Credit Risk)

**Qualifications**:

- MSc in Economics/ Finance
- Up to 5 years of work experience in Credit Risk Management
- Any prior work experience in the energy retail sales business in Italy, France or Spain is a strong advantage
- Solid knowledge of Credit Risk fundamentals is required (e.g. origination, credit risk assessment, risk mitigation, risk monitorning and risk transfer)
- Know-how on Credit Risk Management Systems is an advantage (e.g. Integrity FIS, Reval, Openlink)
- Proficiency in English (spoken and written)
- Italian, Spanish or French language knowledge is an advantage
- Excellent numerical and analytical skills
- Information modelling/ dashboard building skills are an advantage
- Good communicator, able to engage with senior level management

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