The role will report into the Credit Risk Manager and will provide an invaluable opportunity to drive significant change and value for the Bank through a range of insight-providing analytical projects
Responsibilities:
* Develop expert understanding of the customer management lifecycle, including all aspects of decisioning and customer touch points
* Drive the optimisation of lending decisions through test and learn initiatives to identify champion strategies
* Investigation and development of new data sources to be used for analysis and decisioning
* Support business growth and portfolio profitability while ensuring a balance between risk, reward and responsible lending, and controlling credit quality and performance
* Ensure lending decisions are accurate and appropriate through close tracking and monitoring
* Perform inquisitive and innovative analysis and provide logical recommendations resulting in customer and /or business benefits
* Devise, initiate and deliver complex analytical/data driven projects fully incorporating Customer and business implications throughout
* Responsible for automating and streamlining processes to maximise integration, effectiveness and efficiency
Experience required:
* Experienced in consumer credit, preferably in the sub-prime or online lending sector
* Present, both written and verbal, clear and concise results using aggregated data, highlighting key trends, opportunities/risks and recommendations.
* Ensure clear documentation and commented code in place for all analysis, processes and tools including maintaining logs/audit trails for all changes and decisions.
* Understand the systems where the data resides, the processes by which data is collated and stored and the methods available for data retrieval.
* Use a comprehensive understanding of the business meaning behind the data, the business processes underlying the figures and any limitations of the data to drive analysis design and proposals
* Define analytical project phases, success criteria and timescales and drive projects through to implementation while engaging stakeholders throughout and considering customer impact
* Support the testing and delivery of changes to models, policy and strategy, liaising with the relevant departments
* Minimum of 5 years' experience in analytical role
* Honours Degree or equivalent in a quantitative subject such as Mathematics, Statistics, Operations Research or Computer Science.
* SAS/SQL - Highly Proficient (Advanced)
* Intermediate in all standard MS Office applications
* Advanced level experience in decisioning systems
* Experience in Credit Analytics
* Experience of scorecard cut-off setting and strategy optimisation through decline rules
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