Adviser — Counterparty Risk and Credit Limits
Singapore·Agribusiness & Food·Commodity trading· Singapore·Posted 23 September 2026
Applications close 31 October 2026
Commodity trading organisation in Singapore
Partner-sourced
Sourced through a partner search firm or the sponsor's own nomination committee, and verified before listing.
The problem this seat exists to solve
Candidates should have substantial commodity credit or trade-finance risk experience and a record of designing workable limit systems. They need strong analytical judgement and the ability to communicate why apparent diversification may be misleading. Experience implementing limits in trading workflows is essential.
A limit must represent the exposure it is meant to control
This assignment examines how counterparty limits are set, aggregated and used. The adviser should identify where nominal limits fail to capture related entities, unsettled trades, performance exposure or changing market values.
Analytical work
Review counterparty assessment methods, group relationships and exposure calculation. Test the treatment of netting, guarantees and security rather than accepting their value without evidence. Examine how limits respond to financial deterioration, delayed settlement and adverse information between annual reviews.
Practical recommendations
Develop a limit methodology suited to transaction type, tenor and risk quality. Define utilisation rules, temporary approvals and escalation for excesses. Recommend how commercial and credit teams should handle a profitable opportunity when available headroom is inadequate, including the authority needed for an exception.
Limit utilisation should reflect the economic exposure at the relevant point in the trade, including pending commitments where appropriate. The adviser should review how connected counterparties and shared guarantors are treated and how disputed netting assumptions are handled. Temporary excesses need a clear rationale, expiry and monitoring requirement. A useful design will distinguish an excess caused by a market movement from one caused by a new discretionary trade, while ensuring both are visible to the correct authority and assessed for their consequences.
Evidence and handover
The output should include worked examples, clear ownership and monitoring that identifies exposure before it becomes a settled receivable. Candidates should explain how they would identify several legal counterparties that create one economic concentration. The engagement should leave an internally maintainable process, with specialist legal assumptions explicitly identified and actual lending or trading decisions retained by authorised management.
Terms
- Where the board sits
- Singapore, Singapore
- Applications close
- 31 October 2026
- Appointment
- Advisory engagement
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