Senior Manager: Strategic Portfolio Management and Special Projects

About the role

The Senior Manager will lead strategic portfolio management and special projects, ensuring credit and investment activities align with the organisation's strategic objectives, risk appetite and developmental mandate. You will drive portfolio analytics, enterprise‑wide risk strategy, capital allocation and governance to maintain portfolio resilience and credit soundness.

Key responsibilities

• Design and implement a comprehensive framework for managing credit and portfolio risks.
• Produce trend analysis, sector risk reviews and sensitivity analyses, including stress‑tests for concentrations.
• Identify emerging risks and credit trends across sectors, regions and individual borrowers.
• Monitor performance against board‑approved risk appetite levels and thresholds.
• Track portfolio quality, credit exposures, sectoral and geographic concentrations.
• Analyse internal risk grades and support enhancements to credit rating systems.

Required profile

• Honours degree in Risk Management, Finance, Economics or related field; CA or equivalent postgraduate qualification.
• 8‑10 years of experience in credit risk, finance or investment banking within a financial institution.
• Proven portfolio management experience, including credit portfolio oversight, stress testing and enterprise analytics.
• Deep understanding of credit risk frameworks, exposure management, provisioning and Basel risk principles.
• Excellent analytical, verbal and written communication skills.

Required skills

• Risk analytics tools
• Credit modeling
• Enterprise risk platforms

What we offer

• Competitive negotiable salary
• Opportunity to shape enterprise‑wide risk strategy
• Leadership role within a dynamic financial institution