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Saturday 11 July 2026Salary Range
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Title: Counterparty Credit Risk ManagerLocation(s): London or Birmingham
HOURS: Full-time
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least three days per week, or 60% of our time, at one of our office sites.
The Counterparty Credit Risk (CCR) Manager will be primarily responsible for the monitoring, control & reporting functions covering the Bank’s Traded Counterparty Credit Risk portfolio. This role ensures compliance with internal risk frameworks & Chief Credit Office policies while supporting the organization's risk management objectives.
Job Description
The Counterparty Credit Risk (CCR) Team are responsible for the end‑to‑end oversight, governance, and strategic development of the Bank’s traded counterparty credit risk framework. This includes independent risk assessment, exposure management, stress testing, regulatory compliance, and active engagement with 1st Line of Defence (1LOD), Chief Credit Office (CCO), Risk Platforms IT, Quantitative Research (QR) and Model Risk teams to optimise risk‑return outcomes.
Responsibilities
Act as the key bridge between Market Risk and Credit Risk, proactively leading CCR input into counterparty credit assessments and driving the use of exposure analytics and forward-looking risk views in credit decision-making.
Act as a Primary Model User, taking ownership for driving enhancements to CCR exposure methodologies, including Potential Future Exposure (PFE), Expected Exposure (EE/EPE) and Wrong-Way Risk identification.
Proactively monitor and assess the effectiveness of the LBG collateral management framework, including Initial Margin (IM) and Variation Margin (VM) eligibility, concentration limits and contractual haircuts, and drive improvements where required.
Proactively identify and implement actions to reduce exposure (e.g. netting, compression, hedging strategies).
Proactively monitor and drive enhancements to the CCR risk appetite, including counterparty limits, stress limits and utilisation metrics (across both collateralised and uncollateralised exposures).
Take ownership of the execution of the CCR stress testing framework, including designing and running market shocks (rates, FX, inflation), counterparty default scenarios, and correlated market-counterparty stress (wrong-way risk), quantifying impacts on exposures and driving management actions (limit adjustments, hedging, de-risking).
Own the day-to-day execution of the CCR exception control process, ensuring exposures remain within credit appetite and policy limits, with proactive escalation and remediation of breaches.
Proactively monitor traded counterparty exposures against limits, identifying, investigating and escalating excesses and control breaches, and driving timely resolution.
Lead the production of analysis and insights on counterparty exposures, concentrations and stress sensitivities, actively informing credit decisions and portfolio risk management actions.
Maintain a strong understanding of CCR regulatory frameworks (e.g. SA-CCR, Basel/CRR), ensuring alignment between internal methodologies and regulatory capital requirements and proactively identifying enhancement opportunities.
Partner with Risk, Quantitative Research and Technology teams to drive and implement CCR model enhancements and system improvements.
Actively contribute to CCR governance processes and forums, providing robust challenge and influencing risk oversight and decision-making.
Play a key role in the governance and business management of the wider Financial Institutions and Corporates Credit Teams, contributing to strategic objectives and risk management priorities.
Skills
Minimum of 5 years Market / Counterparty Credit Risk experience.
Strong understanding of traded products (interest rate, FX, credit and securities financing transactions) and how they drive counterparty credit exposures, collateral requirements and margining. Demonstrated ability to interpret risk, challenge assumptions, and translate analytics into credit decisions.
Degree in an economic, financial or quantitative discipline, or equivalent professional qualification.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts to a broad audience.
Proactive and delivery-focused, with a strong sense of ownership and ability to drive tasks end-to-end.
Strong analytical and attention to detail skills, particularly in extracting and transforming large datasets. Experience with Power BI, Python and/or SQL is advantageous.
Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence, challenge and engage effectively with Front Office and senior stakeholders.
We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:
- A generous pension contribution of up to 15%.
- An annual performance-related bonus.
- Share schemes including free shares.
- Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping.
- 30 Days' holiday, with bank holidays on top.
- A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies.
Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We aim for our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture. If you'd like reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process, just let us know.
If you're motivated by challenge, grow with responsibility, and want to help shape the future of credit risk at LBG, we want to hear from you.
At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.
We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.
We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.
Skills Required
- Minimum of 5 years Market / Counterparty Credit Risk experience
- Strong understanding of traded products (interest rate, FX, credit, securities financing transactions)
- Experience with counterparty exposure methodologies (PFE, EE/EPE) and wrong-way risk identification
- Knowledge of collateral management, initial margin and variation margin frameworks
- Degree in economics, finance or a quantitative discipline, or equivalent professional qualification
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong analytical skills and experience extracting and transforming large datasets
- Strong stakeholder management skills, ability to influence Front Office and senior stakeholders
- Experience with Power BI, Python and/or SQL
What We Do
Our purpose is Helping Britain Prosper. We do this by creating a more sustainable and inclusive future for people and businesses, shaping finance as a force for good. We're part of an ever-changing industry and are currently on a journey to shape the financial services of the future, whilst supporting our customers’ changing needs. The scale and reach of our Group means we can offer a broad range of opportunities to learn, grow and develop. Our values-led culture and approach to inclusion and diversity means we can all make a real difference together.
