Senior Credit Risk Manager, Private Credit (Asset Owner)

Buy-side / Asset-Owner
Group Investment Credit Risk Management
Key Focus in Private Credit

Our client is a well-established International Insurance and Investment Management Group. With increasing business activities and a solid growth plan in place for Asia, the group is now seeking a high-calibre Credit Risk Management Professional to join the Group Credit Risk Management team based in Hong Kong. The key responsibilities for this position are as follows:

A member of the Credit Risk Management function for the Asia portfolio (key focus in Private Credit), providing credit risk oversight, governance and control, assessing counterparty risks, invested credit risk, asset portfolio risk exposure, group credit risk exposures
Shape and strengthen enterprise-wide risk management practices by establishing robust governance, assessment frameworks and risk appetite measures for investment portfolios.
Provide independent second-line oversight and challenge on credit policies, risk methodologies, governance standards, and investment-related initiatives, including new asset classes, private credits, strategies, and operating models.
Review portfolio proposals, risk assessments, and limit requests, delivering clear recommendations to senior management and governance committees on key credit and investment risks.
Oversee private credit portfolios, assessing portfolio quality, concentration risks, valuations, and governance arrangements while strengthening portfolio-wide risk monitoring capabilities.
Provide specialist advice on counterparty exposures, ensuring risks are appropriately identified, assessed and controlled.
Enhance portfolio monitoring, data management and analytics, and reporting capabilities to identify emerging risks, improve risk insights, and support more efficient decision-making.
Conduct thematic risk reviews and market analysis, providing actionable insights on credit trends, regulatory developments, and potential portfolio vulnerabilities.
Partner with senior stakeholders across investment, actuarial, finance and risk functions to influence strategic outcomes, support key business initiatives and drive a strong risk culture across the organisation.

Successful applicants will have the following skills and experience:

Degree qualified with around 8+ years of relevant experience in Credit Risk Management, Credit Risk Governance, Credit Risk Analysis, Investment Risk and / or Portfolio Risk
Industry experience from insurance and / or asset management
Familiar with private credit, structured credit, distressed assets, special situation, principal investments, public credit and fixed income market and products
Strong analytic skills with ability to extract and analyse complex information and data
Understanding on credit ratings, experienced in developing risk framework, limit frameworks, risk measures, portfolio risk, risk management and governance processes
Excellent reporting writing, presentation and communication skills in English