Credit Risk Lead

Vanguard; Malvern (Chester County); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Vanguard is seeking a Credit Risk Analyst to lead counterparty risk reviews for the Personal Wealth and Investment Management groups. The role emphasizes credit due diligence of financial statements, filings, and market indicators to gauge counterparty strength and downside risk.

It sits within the Global Risk & Security Division and collaborates with PW, IMG, legal, compliance, and finance to manage risk exposures.

Qualifications

• + Five years of credit-related experience including credit analysis or counterparty risk.
• + Undergraduate degree; graduate degree preferred.
• + Professional certification (CFA, FRM, CPA) pursued or in progress preferred.
• + Strong corporate financial statement analysis and credit ratio interpretation.
• + Excel proficiency, Bloomberg fluency; openness to AI tools.

Responsibilities

• Perform credit due diligence of financial statements, regulatory filings, disclosures, news sources, and market indicators to assess counterparty strength.
• Analyze leverage, liquidity, coverage, profitability, capitalization, and cash flow quality.
• Monitor rating actions, earnings, market events, and spreads to detect deterioration and assess risk implications.
• Prepare stakeholder-ready presentations translating credit findings into actionable recommendations.
• Collaborate with PW, IMG, legal, compliance, and finance to manage risk exposures.

Skills

Credit analysis

Financial statement analysis

Credit ratio interpretation

Bloomberg

Python

AI tools interest

CFA/FRM/CPA pursuit

Education

Bachelor's degree

Graduate degree preferred

CFA/FRM/CPA pursuit

Tools

Bloomberg

Python

Job description

The role covers expanded responsibilities for counterparties across Vanguard’s Personal Wealth Division, particularly Cash Plus and Securities Lending counterparties, along with coverage of trading counterparties and brokers for the Investment Management Group (IMG). As a credit risk lead, you will perform credit due diligence of financial statements, regulatory filings, credit disclosures, news sources, and market indicators to assess counterparty strength and downside risk. This is a great opportunity to innovate and meet the needs of new stakeholders in Personal wealth, while contributing to a mature risk framework for IMG to drive client success and impact portfolio risk outcomes.

Situated within the Global Risk & Security Division, the Counterparty Risk Management Team conducts credit reviews, risk assessments, and ongoing monitoring for Vanguard’s global counterparties. The Credit Risk Analyst role will primarily focus on expanding coverage of securities lending and banking relationships for the Personal Wealth (PW) Division, supporting key enterprise priorities.

This role is designed for a strong credit analyst who can pair rigorous financial statement analysis with clear, executive-ready stakeholder communication. The role covers counterparties across Vanguard’s Personal Wealth Division, along with coverage of trading counterparties and brokers for the Investment Management Group (IMG). For approved trading counterparties, the team performs analysis and monitoring to ensure risk exposure is appropriate based on each counterparty’s creditworthiness, collaborates with stakeholders to manage risk exposures, and ensures Vanguard’s compliance with SEC Derivatives and Liquidity Rules. This is a unique opportunity to innovate and meet the needs of new stakeholders, while contributing to a mature risk framework.

This role is an excellent opportunity to impact portfolio risk outcomes and gain meaningful visibility with senior leadership, while building broad relationships and growing your career across Vanguard's investment and risk organizations.

Core Responsibilities

• Perform credit due diligence of financial statements, regulatory filings, credit disclosures, news sources, and market indicators to assess counterparty strength and downside risk.
• Analyze key credit metrics, including leverage, liquidity, coverage, profitability, capitalization, and cash flow quality.
• Continuously monitor rating agency actions, earnings updates, market events, breaking news, and spread movements to detect early signs of deterioration; evaluate risk implications of mergers, acquisitions, and other corporate actions.
• Stay current on market structure, credit cycles, and relevant investment themes to inform risk views; use data analysis to identify trends, outliers, and emerging risk signals. Build
• Conduct scenario and stress analysis to evaluate counterparty resilience and downside risk under adverse market, credit, and liquidity conditions.
• Develop a deep understanding of PW and IMG businesses. Keeps abreast of current issues in business operations and incorporates changing business needs into risk analysis.
• Build consulting-style presentations and lead stakeholder readouts that translate complex credit findings into clear business implications and actionable recommendations.
• Manage relationships with stakeholders with PW, IMG, legal, compliance, and finance organizations. Acts as a liaison and subject matter expert on risk topics, and influence decisions through evidence-based communication of risk insights.
• Assesses risks associated with new products and supports new implementations.
• Produce timely updates for leadership, assessing impact of any credit health changes.
• Partner with technology teams to enhance reporting, data quality, workflows, and controls.
• Participate in special projects and perform other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum of five years related work experience, including three years of related credit analysis, credit research, financial statement analysis, or counterparty risk experience.
• Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience. Graduate degree preferred.
• Progress towards professional certification (CFA, FRM, CPA) or continued development of investment and credit risk acumen preferred.
• Strong command of corporate financial statement analysis and credit ratio interpretation.
• Advanced Microsoft Office skills, proficiency in Bloomberg, and analytical or programming tools such as Python. Exposure and genuine interest in leveraging AI tools.

Key Skills

• Financial statement and ratio analysis
• Excellent written and verbal communication; ability to adapt communication for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Relationship management, influence, and persuasion skills.
• A strong risk mindset and ability to communicate exposures clearly to stakeholders
• Self-starter mindset with strong ownership and follow-through
• Statistical knowledge, data analytics and storytelling skills
• High integrity, sound judgment, and discretion handling confidential information
• Team-first flexibility and willingness to support tasks of all types
• Proven ability to prioritize in a dynamic environment

Special Factors

Sponsorship

Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.

About Vanguard

At Vanguard, we don't just have a mission—we're on a mission.

To work for the long-term financial wellbeing of our clients. To lead through product and services that transform our clients' lives. To learn and develop our skills as individuals and as a team. From Malvern to Melbourne, our mission drives us forward and inspires us to be our best.

How We Work

Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members, designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning, collaboration, and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.