Associate Principal, Credit Risk Management Projects & Reporting

The OCC • Dallas, TX

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

As a member of OCC’s Credit Risk Management team, you will help safeguard OCC from counterparties who exhibit elevated credit risks. Associate Principals are responsible for identifying, developing, measuring, monitoring, reporting, and enhancing processes that monitor thresholds and trends of various risks and exposures introduced to OCC by clearing members, banks, and other critical counterparties. Associate Principals utilize a strong technical and analytical skillset to assist the Credit Department with its projects and reporting. Maintain a general understanding of the risks present within the clearing industry and/or the participating financial entities, including broker-dealers, futures commission merchants, commercial banks, pension funds, and financial market utilities. Associate Principals mentor and train (Sr.) Associates and independently develop technology solutions for the department.

Requirements

• Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills and the ability to work in a collaborative environment.
• Familiarity with financial statements, brokerage statements, and accounting records.
• Proficient knowledge of the financial services industry, including the financial, market, liquidity and operational risks of broker-dealers, futures commission merchants, commercial banks, pension funds, and financial market utilities.
• Proficient understanding of securities markets, derivatives, and option trading strategies.
• Track record of independently managing and successfully completing high visibility projects.
• Excellent organization skills – must be detail oriented.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, with proven ability to work and converse with executive level management.
• Strong Mathematical skills and financial acumen.
• Comfortable working in a customer service-oriented environment and addressing questions from both OCC colleagues and OCC counterparties, engaging users to understand issues and identify root causes, escalating incidents to appropriate teams, collaborating with others to ensure timely resolution and user satisfaction, and monitoring service performance of (Sr.) Associates.
• Ability to work well under pressure with multiple priorities and time-sensitive deadlines.
• Intermediate-to Advanced in Microsoft Office, including Excel experience using lookups and pivot tables to perform data analysis, and comfortable developing PowerPoint presentations.
• Intermediate- to-Advanced SQL, including the ability to write and edit queries to assist with mining and visualizing data from multiple sources.
• Experience using data visualization software (e.g., Tableau, Power BI).
• Familiarity with data stack applications such as Snowflake and code versioning in Github.
• Coding experience with (e.g., Python, R, VBA macros) required.
• Intermediate-to-Advanced quantitative, analytical, problem solving skills, including the ability to accumulate, organize, and assimilate large amounts of information.
• Bachelor’s degree (preferably in Financial Engineering, Data Science, Risk Management, Accounting, (Computational/Quantitative) Finance, or Economics) or equivalent work experience required.
• 4+ years of data analytics experience or relevant financial services industry experience.

Nice To Haves

• Track record of accomplishments while leading a team, delegating and prioritizing work assignments, and ensuring team efficiency preferred.
• Familiarity using Bloomberg and/or S&P Global Market Intelligence, and the technical ability to connect these tools to Excel preferred.
• Master’s degree or progress towards a Master’s degree (preferably in Financial Engineering, Data Science, Risk Management, Accounting, (Computational/Quantitative) Finance, or Economics) preferred.
• Desire to earn, or progress towards, a CFA or FRM certification.

Responsibilities

• Support CORE team with analysis of ongoing creditworthiness of counterparties and escalate issues requiring enhanced surveillance to department management and internal working groups so appropriate actions can be taken.
• Support CORE team with analytical solutions to assist with financial statement analysis, including identifying levels and trends in key metrics and ratios.
• Collaborate with IT and other internal teams to design and implement advanced scalable data analytics solutions to identify and analyze causal links and meaningful relationships (e.g., correlations, distributions, percentiles). Includes centralizing data from multiple sources to automated front end visual reporting/dashboards.
• Work closely with department management on projects, cross-department collaboration, and mentoring of colleagues.
• Lead high priority department projects with minimal oversight by department management.
• Support CORE team with critical, time-sensitive, and/or complex counterparty inquiries requiring data collection or analysis.
• Support system, data, and risk methodology development, review data and risk methodologies during annual reviews, identify underlying methodology assumptions with a comprehensive set of special cases, guide methodologies through full lifecycle events, and evaluate different possible approaches/enhancements.
• Develop, maintain, enhance, and adhere to written policies and procedures.
• Participate in and lead procedure-related control testing activities and identify opportunities for improving the control environment.
• Supervise and confirm adherence to regulatory reporting obligations.
• Work with internal and external stakeholders to support audits/exams.

Benefits

• A hybrid work environment, up to 2 days per week of remote work
• Tuition Reimbursement to support your continued education
• Student Loan Repayment Assistance
• Technology Stipend allowing you to use the device of your choice to connect to our network while working remotely
• Generous PTO and Parental leave
• 401k Employer Match
• Competitive health benefits including medical, dental and vision

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level