Credit Risk Lead, Metals & Commodities Trading

Grey Tree; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Grey Tree, in partnership with a leading global commodities trading house, hires a Credit Risk Manager in Singapore to own counterparty risk for the physical metals business. You will be the credit partner to the trading desks, deciding exposure, terms, and how to protect the portfolio with practical mitigants.

This is a hands-on role with real ownership of the portfolio, including interaction with brokers, underwriters, and senior traders.

Qualifications

• 5–8 years of credit risk experience in commodities trading, metals/mining, or a financial institution with commodity flow exposure.
• Strong financial analysis skills and sound knowledge of credit risk and control principles.
• Able to propose practical mitigants while supporting commercial goals.

Responsibilities

• Own credit risk for a portfolio of physical trading counterparties, from onboarding and KYC through to ongoing review.
• Assess counterparties, assigning internal ratings and setting limits.
• Visit counterparties and their sites to build an on-ground view of the business.
• Place and manage credit insurance cover, including negotiating with brokers and underwriters.
• Build relationships with key counterparties, banks and other financial institutions.
• Tracking market and industry events that could affect counterparty health.
• Advising traders day to day, proposing ways to make deals work within acceptable risk.
• Monitoring exposures and daily reporting, escalating limit breaches and managing margining.
• Working within the group's credit policy alongside a global credit team, and contributing to wider credit projects.

Skills

Credit risk

Financial analysis

Negotiation

Communication

Decision making

Prioritization

Mitigation

Job description

Grey Tree, in partnership with a leading global commodities trading house, hires a Credit Risk Manager in Singapore to own counterparty risk for the physical metals business. You will be the credit partner to the trading desks, deciding exposure, terms, and how to protect the portfolio with practical mitigants.

This is a hands-on role with real ownership of the portfolio, including interaction with brokers, underwriters, and senior traders.