Credit Specialties DI Advisor

About the role

The Structured Credit Adviser position is a hybrid role based in either New York or Houston, requiring 3 days per week in the office. This role is part of Marsh's Political Risk and Structured Credit team, driving and placing innovative financial risk transfer solutions for clients globally.

Responsibilities

• Drives growth in the portfolio of bank clients within the Political Risk and Structured Credit Practice.
• Acts as lead advisory colleague on medium-sized accounts or moderately complex accounts, focusing on banks and their various regulatory regimes.
• Cultivates a deep understanding of the clients’ strategic priorities, risk strategies and risk management needs to provide advice accordingly to client.
• Utilizes substantial risk expertise and knowledge of industry and insurance market place to review clients’ exposures to develop solutions for complex clients’ needs, including a focus on recommending and seeking-out cross-selling our range of additional products and services as solutions.
• Presents, develops and executes renewal/placement strategies in conjunction with Placement, Advisory Leaders and Client Executives.
• Receives, negotiates and evaluates political risk & structured credit quotes from carriers and presents the evaluations to clients.
• Leads presentations to prospective clients, identifies the need for new products and develops/suggests innovative solutions to client and client team members to gain new clients and projects.
• Builds and maintains relationships with clients, and is the primary point of contact to service more complex client needs.
• Coordinates the production of client deliverables, including monitoring delivery and invoicing to ensure the quality of materials delivered to the client.
• Possesses an in-depth knowledge of changing market conditions to contribute to the firm’s body of knowledge within product line through active internal communication.
• Provides an opportunity to contribute to business growth locally and globally.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a financial field such as economics and/or math; master’s degree level preferred.
• 10+ years of experience working in finance/banking/insurance industry, in origination, distribution, broking or underwriting.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision with ability to manage projects/processes from beginning to end.
• Ability to influence others within and outside of the job function regarding approach and procedures.
• Superior detail orientation, excellent communication, interpersonal, and time management skills.
• Strong Microsoft Office skills, especially Excel.
• P&C license mandatory, or ability to obtain.