Credit Risk Analyst

About Us:

Founded more than 15 years ago and headquartered in Chicago, the DV Group of financial services firms has grown to more than 350 people operating throughout North America and in Europe. Since spinning out of a large brokerage firm in 2016, DV Trading has rapidly scaled as an independent proprietary trading firm utilizing its own capital, trading strategies, and risk management methodologies to provide liquidity to worldwide financial markets and hedging opportunities to commodity producers and users. Now, DV group affiliates include two broker dealers, a cryptocurrency market making firm, and a bourgeoning investment adviser.

Responsibilities:

• Manage Counterparty and Credit Risk by engaging business partners to perform diligence and credit risk analysis of clients, counterparties, and credit investments (such as OTC energy/oil/gas, corporate bonds or loans)
• Maintain and improve the Credit Risk framework, while advising senior leadership on our evolving trading business and strategic oversight to develop leading risk metrics
• Appropriately measure and manage emerging risks and products
• Recommend internal credit risk ratings based on a firmwide credit model and prepare written assessments to substantiate the periodic credit review for rating upgrades/downgrades
• Perform credit portfolio reviews and evaluate potential exposures
• Participate on the Credit Risk Committee with the CFO and CRO by preparing materials that clearly communicate Counterparty and Credit Risk Analytics to senior management by building your own data, metrics, trends, and recommendations
• Use credit model framework to analyze and improve new counterparties to trade with; maintain credit models

Requirements:

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in counterparty or credit risk management within Oil/Gas and/or other OTC Energy derivatives, with a preference for experience in the proprietary trading industry
• Prior experience in credit risk for analyzing commodities producers/consumers, digital assets, and financial institutions
• Confidence to resolve complex client challenges or learn new products by collaborating with business partners
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Powerpoint), SQL, Python, data visualization tools (such as Power BI)
• Excellent cross-functional collaboration skills, including navigating leadership and interpersonal working relationships

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