Corporate Vice President - Quantitative Credit Risk

Location Designation: Hybrid 

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Job description: 

The Quantitative Credit Risk Corporate Vice President will be responsible for maintaining and enhancing the fundamental credit risk management framework and data architecture for New York Life’s Commercial Real Estate (CRE) General Account portfolio. The position will help automate the onboarding of NYL’s CRE risk management data and use this database to prepare CRE sector reviews, select deal reviews and credit risk analytics including stress testing, loss forecasting, and credit risk and capital factor input assumptions for NYL’s CRE portfolio. The position will provide the Office of Risk Management perspective within Asset Sector working groups and will be involved in the identification, quantification, developing, reviewing and maintaining guidelines, reporting, risk metrics and credit portfolio strategies for derivatives and new products in our portfolio. The opening requires a high degree of sophistication and prior hands on experience with programming languages including SQL and Python and data visualization software such as Tableau. Prior working experience with Moody’s Commercial Mortgage Metrics and knowledge of Risk Frontier is a plus. 

Responsibilities:
• Assist in developing and implementing credit risk quantitative models
• Maintain and enhance the fundamental credit risk management framework and data architecture for New York Life’s Commercial Real Estate General Account portfolio
• Conduct Commercial Real Estate sector reviews, select deal reviews and credit risk scenario analytics
• Maintain and develop assumptions of the credit risk portion of the commercial real estate and derivative capital framework
• Assist in Developing/recommending/portfolio strategies, guidelines, risk metrics, and compliance
• Compile credit risk stress/sensitivities for the dedicated business review and credit risk dashboard
• Support quantitative credit risk requirements for various submissions (rating agency, Board reports, etc.)
• Work closely with other stakeholders within both NYL Investors and finance for developing and implementing credit risk analytics.
• Assess the model’s default, recovery and correlation risk input assumptions
• Assist in developing, reviewing and recommending credit risk limits
• Develop Credit Risk Early Warning System
• Supporting ongoing and future projects working with the senior team lead when applicable
• Partner with asset sectors for development of internal risk rating and validation
• Support management for the preparation of various credit risk dashboard and reporting
• Assist in the development of Climate Risk Analytics for the CRE portfolio
• Assist in the development, review and recommendation of CRE credit risk limits

Qualifications:
• 7+ years of risk management experience with specific background in commercial real estate, structured finance, derivative credit risk analytics or equivalent investment experience
• Experience with implementation of credit risk models such as Moody’s CMM, Risk Frontier, Kamakura portfolio credit model, Aladdin Risk, etc.
• Relationship management expertise
• Strong communication and partnering skills
• Demonstrated ability to solve complex risk management problems
• High degree of sophistication and prior hands on experience with programming languages including SQL and Python and data visualization software such as Tableau
• Strong communication and partnering skills and ability to work in a team environment
• Experience with running credit risk models such as Moody’s Commercial Mortgage Metrics
• Undergraduate degree required in a quantitative field; advanced degree preferred

Salary range: $145,000-$215,000 

Overtime eligible: Exempt 

Discretionary bonus eligible: Yes 

Sales bonus eligible: No 

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Job Requisition ID: 89569