At BNY, our culture empowers employees to grow, succeed, and contribute to work that helps shape the global financial system. We are seeking a highly analytical and commercially aware Credit Risk Manager to join our European Credit Risk team and will be based in Dublin, Ireland. Credit portfolio coverage will involve European based financial institutions. This role is responsible for providing independent credit risk oversight, effective challenge, portfolio monitoring, and governance support across assigned exposures. The successful candidate will help ensure credit decisions are well controlled, well documented, aligned with risk appetite, and supported by sound judgment, rigorous analysis, and timely escalation.Key ResponsibilitiesProvide independent review, effective challenge, and approval recommendations for credit proposals, annual reviews, borrower ratings, exposure limits, policy exceptions, and other credit actions.Assess borrower, counterparty, transaction, portfolio, industry, country, collateral, structural, and concentration risks to ensure exposures remain consistent with approved risk appetite, policies, standards, and procedures.Partner with first line business teams to evaluate credit requests, identify key risk drivers, challenge assumptions, and ensure recommendations are supported by clear analysis, sound rationale, and complete documentation.Monitor assigned portfolios for emerging risks, credit quality trends, limit utilization, excesses, breaches, rating changes, covenant issues, early warning indicators, and other adverse developments.Escalate material credit concerns, policy exceptions, limit breaches, control issues, and adverse portfolio trends to senior stakeholders in a timely, transparent, and well-supported manner.Support credit governance activities, including portfolio reviews, management reporting, committee materials, regulatory requests, audit inquiries, SOX controls, and issue remediation efforts.Contribute to enhancements of credit risk policies, standards, procedures, controls, reporting, and workflow practices to strengthen the control environment and improve operating effectiveness.Use data, analytics, automation, and emerging technology to improve risk identification, credit monitoring, decision quality, reporting, and process efficiency.Build strong working relationships across Credit Risk, business teams, Credit Services, Legal, Finance, Operations, Technology, and other control functions.Required QualificationsBachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, Risk Management, or a related discipline; advanced degree or professional certification preferred.Minimum of five years of relevant experience in credit risk management, commercial or institutional lending, counterparty credit risk, underwriting, portfolio management, financial analysis, or risk governance.Strong understanding of credit risk fundamentals, including financial statement analysis, repayment capacity, collateral, borrower ratings, exposure measurement, limit management, and portfolio monitoring with focus on financial institutions.Knowledge of credit risk policies, delegated approval authorities, risk appetite frameworks, regulatory expectations, governance requirements, and control environments.Demonstrated ability to analyze complex credit information, identify material risks, form independent conclusions, and communicate recommendations clearly to senior stakeholders.Excellent analytical, problem-solving, organizational, written communication, and stakeholder management skills, with strong judgment and attention to detail.Ability to manage multiple priorities, meet deadlines, and operate effectively in a fast-paced, highly governed risk management environment.Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel, Word, and PowerPoint; experience with credit systems, dashboards, data visualization, or workflow tools preferred.Experience covering banks, broker-dealers, insurers, asset managers, clearing houses, or other financial institutions preferred.Familiarity with European regulatory expectations, including ECB, Central Bank of Ireland, EBA, or PRA guidance, is preferred.Professional certification such as CFA, FRM, PRM, ACA, ACCA, or equivalent risk, finance, or accounting qualification is desirable.