Sr. Credit Analyst (Spanish Speaker)

Shell
Where you fit in

Based in London, you will be part of Shell’s Global Trading & Supply (T&S) Credit Risk organisation, providing credit risk advisory for complex structured (physical, financial, financing) transactions in the Energy business. The highly structured nature of the transactions, complexity and inherent risks require additional levels of risk management, monitoring and counterparty review and analysis.

You will be a member of the Credit Risk team providing credit oversight for new and existing structured transactions across Europe & Africa. You will be supporting Shell’s ongoing Energy transition initiatives across Shell’s Trading & Supply businesses and interact with other businesses across the organisation.

What’s the role?

The Senior Credit Analyst will be accountable for the following:

• Credit Assessments – Assess and judge the creditworthiness of existing and new counterparties and recommend appropriate credit support and limits. Review and challenge analysis produced by team members and offshore support functions.
• Due diligence – conduct comprehensive counterparty review and analysis to identify key risks.
• Structured Transactions – Structure credit solutions that mitigate risks and potential losses, applying credit solutions using a combination of covenants, security, guarantees and other credit mitigating solutions.
• Ongoing Monitoring and Management – reporting on the financial / credit performance of counterparties, including exposures and produce MI reports and escalate as and when required.
• Adherence to Policies – Ensure all contracts comply with the Shell T&S Credit Policy and the business is protected as far as possible from credit risk events. Enhance and challenge standards as and when required.
• Stakeholder engagement – Engaging proactively with front office to support the structuring of credit solutions for new and revised transactions, in particular the structuring of appropriate credit and financial arrangements along with the internal approvals and stakeholder engagement.
• Supporting colleagues – Work collaboratively with colleagues to achieve team, group and company objectives. Manage, teach, develop, junior members of staff.
• Stakeholder management across the business – Reporting to key internal stakeholders including the Head of Structured Commercial Credit (Europe and Africa), the Head of Commercial Credit (Europe and Africa) and, in some cases, directly to the Chief Credit Officer and Chief Risk Officer to communicate potential risks and likely outcomes.
• Internal and External relationships development – have a detailed knowledge of the required Energy markets, identifying innovative solutions to meet customer and business needs.
• Work-out Management – Where the credit risk has increased to unacceptable levels or covenants have been breached, oversee the termination of the contract, work-out management, and the recovery of bad debts/losses where appropriate.

Drive business and process improvement – through new ways of working, process improvements or contribute to systems enhancements and projects.

What we need from you

Given the nature of the portfolio, Spanish language skills are required.

Your experience along with your stakeholder management skills will be critical in the development of appropriate credit strategies in cooperation with B usiness partner and customer portfolio management and analysis.

When it comes to building and maintaining strong and effective relationships across Finance and the wider business , it’s your inter-personal skills that will make all the difference.

You are a thought leader, outspoken, assertive and team player – someone who can bring out the best in others, build communities and encourage sharing of knowledge and best practice.

Relevant Skills and Educational Qualifications:

• Credit experience relating to structured credit, energy and financing/lending transactions
• Confident communicator and presenter with internal and external stakeholders, able to provide challenge and content to all levels of the organisation
• Self-starter, with the ability to quickly pick up new topics and tasks
• Fluent Spanish speaker, conversational and written

Relevant Knowledge:

• In-depth knowledge of credit analysis, due diligence and transaction approval
• Knowledge of credit management and mitigations tools eg. margining, LCs, PCGs, security, insurance.
• Understanding of the European energy markets.
• Understands hedging strategies & debt management.
• Cash flow forecasting and ability to sense check modelling.
• Debenture, charges and covenant structuring and execution.
• Understands the General Trading Terms (GTMA, NBP, EFET, GT&Cs, ISDA/CSA etc)
• Good industry knowledge (settlement, regulation, cost stack for domestic and SME businesses)

Relevant Experience:

• Demonstrable experience with ratings agency, bank, asset manager or commodity trader.
• Comfortable conducting due diligence and driving comprehensive credit assessments.
• Good understanding of financial statements, ratios, and concepts.
• Strong proficiency in excel, with the ability to sense check models eg.to estimate cashflows and credit exposure.
• Understanding and use of exposure metrics such as PFE and credit VaR, stress testing
• Ability to effectively manage competing deadlines for projects in a high-pressure work environment.

While being able to converse in other core European languages (French, German, Italian) is not required, it will certainly be beneficial in your application.

If you don’t see yourself fully reflected in every job requirement listed on the posting above, we still encourage you to reach out and apply. Research has shown that not everyone often applies when they feel do not 100% qualified. We are committed to creating a more equitable, inclusive, and diverse company and we strongly encourage applicants of all genders, ages, ethnicities, cultures, abilities, sexual orientation, and life experiences to apply. We look forward to receiving your application.

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