Portfolio Management and Analysis

Job ID: 18278

Location: Paris, FR

Area of interest: Financial Markets

Job type: Regular Employee

Work style: Hybrid Working

Opening date: 2 May 2025
- Job Summary- Are you ready to play a pivotal role in managing credit risk and portfolio returns for a dynamic portfolio of Global Credit Markets / Corporate Finance term loans? We’re seeking a Portfolio Manager for a portfolio of long term structured facilities to join our team and proactively oversee credit analysis, risk monitoring, and portfolio optimization. You’ll work closely with deal teams, distribution teams, and key stakeholders to maximise returns and manage expected credit losses (ECLs) through a forward-looking approach to financial and credit risk monitoring.- Key Responsibilities**Strategy**
- Drive portfolio returns, monitor Risk Weighted Asset (RWA), and minimize ECLs, ensuring they align with targets.
- Proactive monitoring of client performance against covenants and targets, financial analysis, cash flow modelling / forecasting, ongoing assessment of Credit Grades, and close management of problem accounts.
- Ensure Loan-to-Value (LGD) benefits remain consistent with expectations at origination.

**Business**
- Conduct forward-looking credit analysis, including speriodic credit reviews, portfolio performance reporting, and waiver / amendment requests.
- Identify opportunities to de-risk riskier assets via secondary sale, credit insuranc, and other means
- Collaborate on risk participation and synthetic sell-downs with distribution/securitization teams.

**Processes**
- Oversee covenanted item monitoring, quarterly reporting, and portfolio analysis.
- Deliver accurate, timely responses to credit-related inquiries and reporting requests.
- Maintain auditable credit files and ensure timely, high-quality credit analysis.

**Risk Management**
- Analyze and evaluate risks across complex financing solutions, structured finance, and project finance assets.
- Perform financial and ratio analysis, and assess security structures, management strategies, and contractual risks.
- Skills and Qualifications**Skills**
- Expertise in credit analysis and risk evaluation for complex Global Credit Market / Corporate Finance loans.
- Strong financial analysis capabilities, including ratio analysis and cash flow assessments.
- Proficiency in analyzing Excel-based financial models.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Strong understanding of risk management, compliance, and internal controls.

**Qualifications**
- Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field.
- Core Credit Curriculum Certified (internal SCB course).
- Business-level proficiency in English.

**About Standard Chartered**
- We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.- Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.- Together we:
- **Do the right thing** and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
- **Never settle,** continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
- **Are better together,** we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

**What we offer**

**In line with our Fair Pay Charter,** we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.- **Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance,** with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
- **Time-off** including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
- **Flexible working** options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
- **Proactive wellbeing support** through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
- **A continuous learning culture** to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
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