Portfolio Manager - Finance

Reed; Crawley; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading finance firm is seeking an experienced Portfolio Manager to manage a portfolio of large companies, ensuring financial sustainability and compliance. The ideal candidate will have strong credit risk management skills and extensive finance knowledge. This role offers flexible hybrid working, a generous holiday allowance, and a market-leading pension scheme.

Benefits

Flexible hybrid working

Generous holiday allowance

Market leading pension scheme

Qualifications

• Strong experience in credit risk management for large companies.
• Ability to present complex data to senior leadership teams.
• A full finance qualification is advantageous but not essential.

Responsibilities

• Assess and monitor a portfolio of large companies.
• Advise on financial sustainability and risks.
• Conduct regular reviews and monitor market trends.
• Handle complex cases, including financial distress.
• Build and maintain relationships with senior management.
• Recommend improvements to policies and processes.

Skills

Credit risk management

Financial analysis

Stakeholder management

Education

Finance qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA)

Job description

Reed Finance are recruiting for aPortfolio Manager(Finance) on behalf of our globally recognised client on an initial 6 month, Fixed Term Contract Basis.

This role requires an experienced candidate with exceptional credit analysis skills and a robust understanding of finance, capable of deep diving in to numbers to assess potential risks. This role is pivotal in ensuring financial sustainability and regulatory compliancein a highly complex marketplace.

Day-to-day of the role

• Assess and monitor a portfolio of large (multi-million turnover) companies through qualitative and quantitative analysis.
• Maintain oversight of compliance against frameworks, advising the credit committee on financial sustainability and risks.
• Conduct regular reviews, monitor market trends, and identify early actions for companies showing signs of credit deterioration.
• Handle complex cases, including companies in financial distress or undergoing significant structural changes.
• Build and maintain relationships with client CEOs, CFOs, and other senior management, which sometimes may require difficult conversations to achieve resolutions.
• Develop a deep understanding of the issues affecting the industry to inform strategic decision-making.
• Recommend improvements to policies, processes, and practices that are not meeting their objectives and implement these changes.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Strong experience in credit risk management and a broad finance background, able to analyse complex financial assessments and forecasts for large companies.
• Capable of presenting complex data to SLTs, including having challenging conversations where needed around credit, risks and assessments.
• A full finance qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) would be advantageous, however is not essential.

Benefits

• Flexible hybrid working (1-2 days per week in the office), very generous holiday allowance, market leading pension scheme and more.

Our client are looking to shortlist immediately, so please apply now for further information.