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Job Purpose / Role

We are seeking to recruit a Credit Manager who will be assessing the attractiveness of real estate investments within Commercial Real Estate Loans with the focus on populating and reviewing Issue Credit Ratings within a second-line of defense function. The focus will be on new transactions as well as on the existing portfolio.

Key Responsibilities

• Generating and approving Issue Credit Ratings for Commercial Real Estate (CRE) Debt Transactions.
• Development, maintenance and (re)validation of the CRE Rating Model with the Model Provider in accordance with the needs from internal Business or Risk Functions.
• Support other internal functions with requests regarding CRE ratings (e.g. stress tests, rating sensitivity analysis).
• Provide guidelines and trainings across all CRE Rating Model users to ensure consistent usage of the tool.
• Analysis of new investments by writing independent transaction assessments for the Investment Committees based on deep insights into transactions.
• Close collaboration and interaction with loan origination teams in Munich / Paris / London (including the participation in site visits, etc.).
• Ongoing active risk focused analysis of single portfolio investments incl. regular quarterly transaction assessments and loan reviews, rating reviews, impairment notifications etc.
• Interaction with internal stakeholders to address investors’ requirements.
• Support ongoing development of lending governance framework.

Key Requirements/Skills/Experience

• Minimum 4 years of relevant professional experience in the real estate business.
• Master’s degree in Business Administration / Finance / Mathematics or similar, ideally with a special focus on real estate.
• Additional qualifications as e.g. CFA, CCrA are highly appreciated.
• Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office programs, in particular MS PowerPoint and MS Excel, programming skills are a plus.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Proficiency and strong communication skills in English are required, further languages as e.g. German or French are highly beneficial.
• Performance oriented and self-motivated.
• Strong team player and ability to work under pressure and to meet tight deadlines.
• Ability to collaborate and work with various departments in an international, diverse and highly interdisciplinary environment.
• Travel activity required.

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