Credit Risk Manager - Mortgages Job at Barclays (Manchester)

Job Description

Join us at Barclays as a Credit Risk Manager – Mortgages, where you’ll support and help to shape the Risk team’s vision and objectives.

Support and help to shape the Risk team’s vision and objectives
Manage the day to day activities under the team’s responsibility and provide coaching and training to more junior members of the team
Identify and recommend changes to risk appetite, setting the annual mandate and scale limits and supporting/proposing changes to credit strategies to Senior Management and Decision Committees
Perform credit oversight of risk for the existing portfolio using key metrics including impairment, capital and portfolio quality measures
Manage and optimise the bank's overall credit risk exposure by monitoring, analysing, and reporting on the creditworthiness of its lending portfolio
Monitoring the financial performance and risk profile of the entire lending portfolio, including individual borrowers, sectors, and geographic regions
Analysis of credit trends, identify early warning signs of potential borrowers' issues, and assess the impact of economic and market developments on the portfolio
Development and utilisation of quantitative models and risk forecasting tools to measure and predict potential credit losses
Performance of portfolio stress testing exercises to assess the impact of various economic and market scenarios on the portfolio's risk profile
Definition and setting of portfolio, segment and customer risk appetite, policy and limits. Overseeing first line execution within these parameters

Risk manager with portfolio risk management experience and preferably in retail secured credit
Ability to demonstrate experience managing end to end portfolio management activities
Ability to direct a technical team to perform data driven analysis and have the ability to interpret and articulate results to solve problems and identify opportunities
Ability to direct a team to perform analysis on SAS/SQL/ Excel and other programming languages – essential experience in coding
Senior stakeholder management skills and the ability to communicate effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences
Strong analytical and creativity skills

Well-developed personal organisation and commercial acumen, with the ability to deliver accurate results within tight deadlines, influencing stakeholders and colleagues to do so
Possess a keen interest in the macroeconomic health of the UK economy and an understanding of how to leverage this understanding to better manage a credit risk portfolio
Passion for data driven and conceptual analysis and how this contributes in a commercial context. Understanding of data issues to prepare and validate analysis
Knowledge of securitisation process welcomed
Understanding of both standardised and advanced capital treatment for secured lending

Modern workspaces, collaborative areas, and state-of-the-art meeting rooms
Facilities include wellness rooms, on-site cafeterias, fitness centers, and tech-equipped workstations
Hybrid working
Flexible working arrangements