Regional Credit Lead

Job Purpose and Impact

The CASC Regional Credit Lead Internalwill provide leadership and visibility of key credit exposures and risks for Agricultural Supply Chain for North America and South America. In this role, you will influence timely and strategic decisions on credit risk and will ensure effective processes and an efficient structure in place to meet the needs of the business in order to measure new risks and generate insights while leading strategic credit initiatives for the enterprise. As the co-lead credit risk partner for the enterprise, you will work with business leaders on their strategic growth goals and maintain independence. You will be engaged with the broader credit risk leadership team as co-lead on global improvement efforts, strategic credit initiatives and review of large limits and collaborate with the market risk team on measurement of mark to market risk and market trends and provide periodic updates to financial stakeholders on key credit risks and progress on initiatives.

Key Accountabilities

• Ensure effective credit standards, policies, procedures and limits as well as appropriate stress and scenario testing and analysis of the credit portfolio are in place and aligned across the organization.
• Review and assess credit exposures as well as any credit limit breaches and provide group enterprise and leadership stakeholders with a proactive credit view that highlights key credit risk and trends.
• Identify opportunities to improve the management of credit exposure across the enterprise including options to better mitigate financial exposures and risk.
• Partner collaboratively with reporting stakeholders to review and assess material credit reserves to ensure appropriate reflection of exposures and assess if changes are needed.
• Act as the lead contact or escalation point for relationships with counterparties and other business partners which include but are not limited to customers, suppliers, other credit teams, other internal enterprises and functions.
• Partner with analysts and credit risk stakeholders to ensure optimal approach to risk and reward analysis and ensure alignment to the corporate approach.
• Ensure an optimal credit process approach and delivery model within the business and understand and proactively manage our risks by collaborating with relevant internal trade and credit leadership partners to design and align key processes at a corporate level.
• Develop plans and deliver results in a fast-changing business or regulatory environment, while leading and developing a team of experienced professionals and supervisors, coaching and making decisions related to talent management hiring, performance and disciplinary actions. You will also collaborate with managers and supervisors in your organization to ensure staff selections align with current and future needs.
• Voting member of Cargill Risk Committee Credit Sub-Committee
• Other duties as assigned

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Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
• Credit, market risk or finance experience
• Minimum of six years of related work experience
• Other minimum qualifications may apply

Preferred Qualifications

• Three years of supervisory experience
• Knowledge and familiarity with global trading as well as commercial processes and traded and derivative products including futures, options and swaps and execution and clearing on global markets
• Experience working in a physical commodity trading environment
• Working knowledge of risk mitigation strategies, including letters of credit, factoring, trade credit insurance

Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet.