Head of Credit Analytics - Consumer Lending
Manchester - Hybrid
to c.£100,000 per annum plus excellent bonus and benefits package
The Client:
- A specialist bank providing a range of lending and savings products for the UK SME and retail consumer markets.
- Celebrated for its award-winning culture and offering excellent opportunities for career progression as it looks to expand its product reach through diversification and acquisition.
The Role:
- Leading all aspects of the bank's automated lending decisioning as it streamlines credit risk analysis and launches into new product areas including a new consumer hire purchase retail offering.
- Designing and implementing consumer lending decision strategies, rulesets and scorecards supported by best-in-class modern technology.
- Owning the risk-based pricing model, reporting and monitoring automated decisioning performance.
- Feeding back performance observations and suggesting improvements to the consumer lending team including underwriting, collections and customer services.
- Assisting the finance team with the development of IFRS9 modelling and provisioning and contributing to the overall lending strategy and risk appetite of the bank.
- Supporting the data team in the management of customer application data and the technology team with the ongoing management of the decisioning engine.
The Ideal Candidate:
- Several years of experience in a Credit Analytics role within regulated financial services, ideally with exposure to consumer lending.
- Highly competent in Excel and SQL with a good working knowledge of Python, SAS or similar.
- A good understanding of Credit bureau and open banking data structures.
- Able to present, interact and influence clearly with non-technical senior stakeholders.
- Passionate about training and developing junior talent and spreading specialist knowledge.