Would you like to kick start your career in a supportive, collaborative and innovative company?
Do you enjoy working as part of an enthusiastic, passionate, and collaborative team?
Join our Credit Underwriting team
The credit underwriting team is a business critical, growing, and dynamic team led by the Head of Credit & Commercial risk who reports into the Group Financial Controller. The team work closely with the sales team, financial reporting, and various areas of business operations. The credit underwriting team are ultimately responsible for the management, underwriting, and control of credit exposure to the business in what is a rapidly evolving environment.
Success. The Softcat Way.
There's a uniqueness to Softcat – what we do, how we do it and why we do it. That's because we help customers to use technology to succeed, by putting our employees first. We give everyone the chance to step up and show how much they can achieve. We succeed when all our people succeed.
Be part of a team that enables business growth
This role is part of the Finance Management team and will lead the credit underwriting team supporting our rapidly growing and dynamic IT solutions business. This passionate, highly numerate underwriter will work closely with our finance and sales teams as well as external stakeholders, insurance brokers and customers alike, to maintain credit risk controls within an existing framework and provide a unique service to our customers.
As a Credit Underwriting Manager, you'll be responsible for:
Analyse customer risk profiles and validate automated credit scorecards Produce monthly risk reports and support senior credit governance forums Manage credit exposure, limits, and portfolio risk across customers and sectors Lead and develop senior underwriters, including performance, hiring, and KPIs Support board approvals and senior decision‑making within agreed authority levels Oversee trade credit insurance, budgets, and process improvements Manage and monitor the Deputy Credit Risk Manager performance, manage KPI's during a performance management process through having challenging conversations Streamlining processes where needed Partner closely with senior stakeholders across the business to align credit strategy Participating in credit review meetings with the senior leadership team, displaying understanding of customers who have gone into administrations, high exposure risks, industry updates and credit assessment SLA overviews.
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