Credit Support Officer

DBS Bank; City Of London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global bank is seeking a Credit Support Officer for its London branch. The role involves facilitating the credit process for Relationship Managers, ensuring documentation accuracy, and monitoring covenants. The ideal candidate will have strong interpersonal skills and a background in finance.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 years experience in Credit / Credit Control within finance.
• Working knowledge of credit processes, loans, loan activations.
• Ability to balance business needs with risk controls.

Responsibilities

• Support credit process for Institutional Banking Group Relationship Managers.
• Ensure accuracy of documentation for Post Approval Workflow.
• Provide updates on activation activities.

Skills

Credit process knowledge

Covenant monitoring

Interpersonal skills

Communication skills

Initiative

Tools

Excel

Job description

Credit Support Officer - DBS Bank Ltd, London Branch

Job Responsibilities

• Primarily supporting the credit process for the Institutional Banking Group (IBG) Relationship Managers (RMs).
• Aim to connect the dots between approval of an eMemo through to the facility being activated in the Credit Limit System (CLS), i.e. bringing the process of document preparation and activation form/instruction/executed legal documents into the GLOW platform.
• Act as a quality controller between Credit/Credit Control Unit (CCU) and the IBG RM community.
• Ensure completeness and accuracy of all required documentation and process step completion for the Post Approval Workflow (PAW) further to eMemo approval to enable CCU to activate limits.
• Provide timely status updates in PAW on the activation activities.
• Ensure active covenant checking & input into GLOW.

Skills & Requirements

• Minimum of 3 years experience within a Credit / Credit Control role in the finance industry.
• Working knowledge of credit processes in particular loans, loan activations and covenant monitoring.
• Ability to provide balanced perspective between business expediency and risk & control.
• Possess strong interpersonal and communications skills.
• Proficient in Excel and understanding of core banking systems.
• Ability to work on own initiative, prioritise workload and deliver to tight timescales.