Associate Director

Role – General Manager / Associate Director

Location - Mumbai

About the Team:

Credit team facilitates lending to existing & new clients by assessing creditworthiness, monitoring clients’ performance on a regular basis, and making suitable recommendations to the credit committees.

The team is expected to do a deep dive financial analysis of customers, regularly meet / interact with the stakeholders of borrowers, keep regular track of key performance milestones, be cognizant of & follow internal policies & processes, and present findings / recommendations to internal committees in timely & concise manner.

About the Role:

Key Responsibilities:

• Independently prepare comprehensive credit assessment (covering macro-overview, industry/sector, competitor, business, financial and credit analysis) of clients on continuous basis through desk review and on-field diligence and monitoring; keep a close watch on allocated portfolio clients. It also includes preparation of detailed proposal notes for internal circulation.
• Able to hold conversations and engage with clients’ senior management and present the clients’ credit profile to internal team and Credit Committee to support their decision making.
• Follow-up with the sales team, account relationship team and other concerned teams for new sourcing and renewal/review. Identifying early warning signs of credit deterioration, joint monitoring of portfolio with account relationship team based on early warning systems.
• Capable of forming a view and suggesting course of action with regards to exposures clients.
• Contribute to various firm-wide projects focused on improving technology, enhancing reporting, regulatory compliance etc.

Qualifications:

• CA / MBA with min 10+ years of relevant credit assessment experience in corporates.

  Experience of 5+ years in real estate project evaluation (commercial, residential) is a must.

• Structured credit/lending or portfolio/credit monitoring teams of Banks / NBFCs / PE / Debt funds
• Experience in handling due diligence or transaction advisory.
• Be comfortable with numbers, analysing financial statements, managing, and interpreting data and solving problems - to aid in credit underwriting.
• Have excellent report writing and communication skills.