Credit & Surveillance Specialist

About the Role:

• Bring the passion to contribute to the success of Swiss Re by identifying risks worth taking while steering away from risks that could destabilize the Group. Furthermore, the role will bring an independent, broad, and long-term perspective to protect Swiss Res reputation and financial strength.
• Responsibilities include wide range of credit and political analysis and risk management activities:
• Quantitative and qualitative risk management activities involving the financial sector, especially banks, and sovereign obligors as well as country level aggregates.
• Contribute to the creation of analytical and risk management tools to enhance the teams efficiency and value add.
• Participate in specific team and cross-functional projects, and Swiss Re senior management reports.
• Coordinate with other Group functions such as Underwriting, Asset Management, and IT to promote prudent risk taking and maintain Swiss Res financial stability.

About the Team:

Credit and political risks are prevalent across the Swiss Re Group, including investment strategies of Asset Management, underwriting activities in Credit Surety (reinsurance and direct commercial insurance), credit counterparty risks embedded in any type of structured transactions, as well as through corporate finance activities (custodial, banking, and derivatives counterparties).
As part of CRM, the Banks, Country Political Risk team identifies, measures, monitors and controls credit default, migration and political risks and ensures that companys credit and political risk profiles are clear to management and appropriate relative to our risk appetite. Team members are in New York, London, Zurich and Bangalore and work in a synchronized manner, often to meet established goals.

About You:

• Solid academic track record with a degree in economics, mathematics, or finance. Professional designation such as CFA or FRM is a plus.
• 5+ years experience in a credit or political analysis or risk management role is required. Knowledge of capital markets and credit-related products is a plus.
• Excellent IT technical skills with exposure to data analysis in MS Excel and VBA as well as R and Power BI.
• Excellent written and spoken English. Additional language proficiency is useful.
• Co-operative team-player with solid communication and interpersonal skills.