Risk Management jobs in United States

Listing reference: nef_000129

Listing status: Online

Apply by: 18 August 2025

Job category: Asset and Fund Management

Contract: Permanent

Remuneration: Market Related

EE position: Yes

To manage the Turnarounds, Workouts & Restructuring team with the view of maximising recoveries and minimising losses. Furthermore, coordinate the prevention of financial and business failure from defaulting and or financially underperforming and distressed clients.

Workouts

• Ensure optimal solutions are provided to NEF clients experiencing financial difficulty.
• Provide input and guidance with regards to transactional matters on restructuring, turnaround, workout, litigation, monitoring and exit.
• Ensure that restructured clients are effectively managed in order to ensure success of a turnaround and maximize the return on investment.
• Interact with other business units, to ensure thorough portfolio management, adequacy of reserves and proper risk ratings are allocated.
• Interact with external stakeholders’ e.g. financial advisors, lawyers to evaluate workouts situations and to craft and deploy recovery strategies.
• Work closely with Post Investment and Legal Services Departments to timeously institute legal action and speedy settlement on litigation matters.
• Preparing various periodic reports for presentation at PMC, EXCO IC Board IC and Board.
• Utilise own and expert knowledge, experience, and best practices to guide the team in the fulfilment of its roles.
• Review the necessary reports to senior management, various committees and Board.
• Manage a portfolio of distressed transactions.

Turnarounds

• Devise plans for turnaround of delinquent / distressed businesses and ensure investees implement same.
• Prepare formal credit write-ups and present transactions for approval within organisational standards.
• Negotiate resolution strategies with borrowers, vendors and other interested parties. Work closely with legal counsel in structuring and negotiating business rescue, turnaround and restructure transactions.
• Interact with CEO/CFO levels in investee companies.
• Ensure compliance with all reporting and regulatory requirements.
• Provide risk assessment of transactions.
• Prepare budget and the control of expenses within budget limits and company policy directives.
• Ensure compliance and adherence to NEF financial policies.
• Ensure that early warnings signs and other key risks factors are proactively identified by the team.
• Continually manage portfolio such that onerous exposure to single clients is not experienced.
• Follow up and implement recommendations of internal and external audit findings.
• Ensure all weaknesses in system are identified and necessary remedial or risk mitigation measures are put in place.
• Aware of the possibilities and consequences that could have an adverse effect on NEF’s financing portfolio due to unforeseen event(s).

Strategic Planning

• Annually prepare, finalise, procure approval and implement a strategy for the Department.
• Ensure staff buy-in into strategy.
• Drive strategic thinking and direction in the Department.
• Develop appropriate strategies to resolve distressed transactions.

People Management

• Ensure that the department is adequately staffed with suitably qualified specialist and support staff.
• Compile job descriptions for the team and ensure they are fully conversant with the content thereof.
• Manage staff performance continuously to ensure maximum productivity and healthy staff morale.
• Initiate personal development programmes for staff, where relevant, or as may be required from time to time.
• Conduct annual and bi-annual performance reviews for all staff.
• Conduct regular planning sessions and progress meetings with staff to ensure proper control and dissemination of information and coordination of activities.

Qualification Requirements

• Honours degree in Accounting or Finance or equivalent
• CA(SA) or BCom (Hons) or MBA degree advantageous
• TMA membership advantageous

Experience / Skills Required

• Minimum of 5 years managerial experience in a Workouts or Post Investments is required.
• At least 3 years’ experience in restructuring / turnaround and business rescue.
• Credit experience is essential, including deal structuring, analysing financial statements and credit assessment.
• Strong numerical skills and financial acumen to analyse, evaluate and identify trends in complex consolidated financial statements, balance sheets and ratios
• Understanding or exposure to different business sectors
• Knowledge of Chapter 6 of Companies Act of 2011 and other relevant similar legislation
• Ability to build and analyse financial models, financials and sensitivity analyses
• Ability to understand and recognize the key operational performance drivers of a business
• Creating valuation models utilized in divestitures and acquisitions of distressed assets
• Developing spreadsheet models used to analyse complex financing transactions
• Analysing economic and industry trends and data to develop recommendations
• Reading and analysing complex legal documents and discussing issues with deal constituents in order to develop a deep understanding of a given transaction
• Ability to multitask different aspects of a project while adhering to applicable deadlines
• Willingness to travel

Personal Attributes/Behaviours/Attitudes

• Analysis and Attention to Detail
• Conceptual Thinking
• Focus and Sustained Attention
• Anticipating, Creating and Managing Change (Tolerance of Ambiguity)
• Strategic Thinking
• Tolerance to Ambiguity
• Judgement and Decision-Making
• Learning Ability
• Problem Solving (Includes reasoning)
• Excellence/ Quality Orientation
• Ethical Judgement
• Flexibility
• Objectivity
• Decisiveness and Action Orientation
• Resilience and Stress Management
• Drive and Results Orientation
• Time and Self-Management
• Courage
• Building Strategic Relationships/Networking
• Building Relationships
• Interpersonal Agility
• Customer Service Orientation
• Engaging Diversity
• Social Responsibility
• Teamwork
• Conflict Management
• Verbal and Written Communication (incl. Listening)
• Influencing and Impact (incl. Negotiation)

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