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Toronto, ON, CA

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Manage portfolio of Canadian clients with foreign exchange and settlement exposure.
• Adjudicate clients for ongoing requirements and exception requests within policy.
• Designed the workflow and collaborated with IT Manager of CRM software to enable credit department to adopt CRM in managing workload and clients' credit data.
• Engaged in creation of a revised risk rating scorecard.

• Manage portfolio of North American accounts through the adjudication of permanent and excess requests for settlement and foreign exchange hedging limits and monitor exposure.
• Drive process improvement. Researched solutions to improve risk management methodology. Engaged with external risk score provider to provide systematic risk measurement for adjudication.
• Implemented standardized financial spreading tool and credit review
• Effectively communicated with all… Show more
• Effectively communicated with all stakeholders, improving submissions and outcomes. Show less

Toronto

• Underwrite foreign exchange and settlement limits and adjudicate within delegated authority.
• Drafted credit policy to formalize credit procedures utilized in development of enterprise risk framework and identifying adaptable best practices.
• Developed systematic methodology to contain limits during Covid-19. Created Scorecard to categorize clients by risk profile. Built portfolio report and watch list to monitor exposures daily.
• Train credit staff on in-depth credit analysis… Show more
• Train credit staff on in-depth credit analysis and sales staff on appropriate credit submissions. Show less

Oakville

• Maintained and built credit portfolio of loans greater than $1,000,000 secured by inventory.
• Approved Analyst’s reviews within delegated limit.
• Accurately risk rate clients in portfolio to meet classifications established and reinforced by regulators. Advised manager on appropriateness of risk ratings and adherence to policy.
• Submitted quarterly substandard loan report to senior management stipulating loan exposure, triggers for changing risk profile, and expected outlook.

• Managed portfolio of 45 Treasury Services clients with foreign exchange, overdraft, letters of credit, and credit card facilities of $500,000 to $15,000,000 with zero losses incurred.
• Engaged in client discussions and client visits revolving around deteriorating financial condition and need for increased monitoring, financial disclosure, and collateral.
• Credit Department Representative on Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Committee.

• Managed portfolio with facilities up to $5,000,000. Stress test projections on likely and worse case scenarios.

Enterprise Risk Management Certificate

Canadian Securities Course

Bba (Hons), Finance