BBVA Spark – Risk Monitoring Senior Manager

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BBVA is a global company with more than 160 years of history that operates in more than 25 countries where we serve more than 80 million customers. We are more than 121,000 professionals working in multidisciplinary teams with profiles as diverse as financiers, legal experts, data scientists, developers, engineers and designers.

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BBVA Spark is the business area within BBVA responsible for supporting high growth companies (seed, early growth, scaleup and unicorns) and VC funds in all of their financial services needs, including but not limited to transactional products, short-term traditional lending, venture and growth lending, warehouse facilities and capital call lines.

About the job:

Within BBVA Spark & Banking for Growth, the Risks team is responsible for:

• Risk assessment & underwriting: evaluating potential clients, analyzing their financial health, business model and growth potential to determine creditworthiness
• Produce and present periodic and ad-hoc risk and valuation reports and run and maintain risk systems
• Portfolio monitoring: continuously tracking the financial performance of clients, identifying risks and taking proactive measures
• Governance, compliance and framework adherence: ensuring that all risk management processes align with BBVA’s internal risk framework, policies and regulatory requirements

What are we looking for?

The scope includes client risk assessment, debt restructuring, early warning systems, and risk classification review, in close coordination with the business areas (debt specialists and

county heads) and the risk discipline and admission teams of the Business Areas and Geographies.

This role will have responsibility for:

• Contributing to the definition of a streamlined credit monitoring process focused not only on credit quality evolution but also addressing the full spectra of capital (product/risk bucket, tenors, committed vs formalized risk) and profitability levers
• Ensure full compliance with the rules and requirements established in Spark’s Risk Framework concerning the monitoring function, as well as to BBVA Risk Policies and Procedures.
• Support the Head of Monitoring in the transition and integration into the CIB Monitoring discipline of tasks related to covenant monitoring through the relevant applications.
• Lead and support the Head of Monitoring in all tasks related to the management, tracking and reporting of the active guarantee schemes in Europe (e.g., FEI Guarantees), ensuring their correct handling through the tools and systems designed for this purpose.
• Lead risk assessment for deteriorated clients, including individualized provision estimations. Monitor and challenge risk classifications, and contribute to risk stage definitions.
• Drive and execute debt restructuring processes for deteriorated clients in collaboration with legal and business teams.
• Design and implement a new Early Warning System tailored to the specific dynamics of high-growth companies, in partnership with Spark’s Data Team, CS Advanced Analytics, and GRM. Incorporating industry KPIs in the monitoring process by defining appropriate warning thresholds
• Participating in fulfilling the informational needs of multiple presentations to BBVA Spark and BBVA top management and regulatory bodies
• Attending meetings with the business team with the aim of disseminating, coordinating and standardizing the best practices of the function.
• Supporting the discipline in the management of credit risk as a portfolio of industry and product subportfolios, identifying the potential impact of both macro trends (geopolitics, regulation) and industry specific developments (Artificial Intelligence, descarbonization, etc), detecting pockets of

vulnerability and anticipating areas of weakness

• Bachelor’s degree in areas of Economics, Finance, Mathematics, Statistics, Business, or Engineering (or a similar quantitative discipline), with masters preferred
• 5-6 experience in in financial analysis, corporate banking, private debt, venture capital, restructuring or financial monitoring. Good understanding of financial statements and ratio analysis
• Solid background in underwriting and portfolio monitoring
• Familiarity with capital and profitability levers and knowledge of fintechs ecosystems, venture debt or

• Strategic thinker, capable of coming up with new ideas and solutions.
• Knowledge and experience in analyzing high-growth companies (startups) will be considered a plus.
• Solid analytical skills
• Fluent in English and Spanish

• Strong analytical and decision-making skills, especially under conditions of uncertainty
• Strong organizational and project management skills to manage different tasks with competing deadlines.
• Good communication skills, capable of providing thought leadership and ability to influence discussions with other senior professionals across the geographies. Ability to synthesize complex ideas into few key messages.
• Team player mentality who lives by our values (“customers come first”, “think big” and “one team”).
• Other soft Skills: creativity, proactive mindset, empathy, innovation, customer orientation, problem-solving skills

Skills:

Analytics, Risk Management, Strategic Solutions