Credit Specialist

Cape Town
Salary: Market Related
Job Type: Permanent
Sectors: Investment
Reference: NFP015317/Crush

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Employer: Network Recruitment

Unlock Your Potential: Credit Specialist Role at a Leading Financial Institution. Are you a seasoned credit professional with a passion for strategy, investment, and portfolio management? Join our client, a top-tier investment leader, as a Credit Specialist and take charge of a dynamic and diverse credit portfolio.

About the Role:
This pivotal role offers oversight and accountability for the client’s managed credit portfolio, reporting directly to the Head of Credit and Portfolio Management (CPM). The portfolio spans investments in South African corporates, municipalities, state-owned entities, leveraged buy-outs, project finance, property, securitisation transactions, and developmental market credit.

Key Responsibilities:

Strategic Leadership: Shape and execute the client’s credit strategy alongside the Head of CPM, driving portfolio success.
Product Innovation: Identify and present innovative credit opportunities to strengthen the portfolio.
Investment Expertise: Provide critical input during the investment decision-making process.
Transaction Execution: Collaborate with asset managers to execute new transactions while adhering to investment requirements.
Portfolio Bench-marking: Analyze and report portfolio exposures against market and internal benchmarks.
Asset Oversight: Lead reporting activities and manage the counter-party watchlist with an eye for restructuring opportunities.
Development: Enhance internal ratings scorecards and contribute to asset valuations.
Engagement: Foster relationships with asset managers to source unlisted asset opportunities and maintain mandate compliance.
Market Insights: Deliver timely, insightful market and industry research.
Implementation: Drive execution of the overnight strategy, including legal negotiations.

Your Profile:

Education: BCom, BBusSci, or equivalent. A CA(SA) and CFA designation is a significant advantage.
Experience: At least 5 years as a Credit Analyst, with expertise in investments and fixed income instruments.
Competencies:
- Professionalism and attention to detail.
- Strong planning, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication and client-service orientation.
- Commercial acumen and ability to perform under pressure.

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If you have not had any response in two weeks, please consider the vacancy application unsuccessful. Your profile will be kept on our database for any other suitable roles / positions.

For more information contact:
Crushen Pietersen
Recruitment Consultant
cpietersen@networkfinance.co.za

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About Network Recruitment

Network Recruitment

Network Recruitment is a leading specialist recruitment company in the fields of IT, Finance and Engineering.

Since our establishment in 1987, we have been at the forefront of the specialist recruitment industry. Network Recruitment’s key to success is the focus on delivering superior quality service by developing and maintaining an exclusive focus on sourcing high-calibre skills for medium-sized to JSE-listed companies operating in these three niche sectors across South Africa.

Our experience in permanent and contract-based recruitment enables us to provide you with recruitment solutions that meet your long- and short-term needs.

Network Recruitment is a division of ADvTECH Resourcing, the recruitment arm of the national JSE-listed ADvTECH Limited Group a leader in quality education, training, skills development and placement services.