
Credit Strategy Analyst
iwoca
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: London • United Kingdom
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Salary
💰 £50,000 - £70,000 per year
About the role
- Lead the monthly monitoring of credit models and portfolio performance to ensure outcomes align with the risk appetite.
- Own the strategic analyses of credit thresholds, providing evidence-based recommendations to expand or tighten lending.
- Re-architect and maintain risk and performance dashboards to provide stakeholders with real-time visibility into portfolio health.
- Identify and monitor shifting fraud behaviours to ensure the platform remains secure as it scales.
- Collaborate on high-impact projects, such as launching invoice finance expansions and cross-sell initiatives.
- Analyse seller profitability by segment to identify the most successful cohorts and optimise the lending strategy.
Requirements
- Analytical background, demonstrated through academic qualifications in a STEM field (e.g., Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering) or equivalent professional experience.
- Proven commercial experience in credit risk or lending strategy, ideally within fintech or SME lending.
- Proficiency in SQL and Python for data manipulation and ad-hoc analyses.
- Experience using major data visualisation tools (such as Looker, Tableau, or PowerBI) to translate data into actionable insights.
- Bonus: Experience with invoice finance or B2B payments.
- Experience working in a cross-functional risk or product team.
- Experience working with machine learning models.
Benefits
- Medical insurance from Vitality, including discounted gym membership
- A private GP service (separate from Vitality) for you, your partner, and your dependents.
- 25 days’ holiday, an extra day off for your birthday, the option to buy or sell an additional five days of annual leave, and unlimited unpaid leave
- A one-month, fully paid sabbatical after four years.
- Instant access to emotional and mental health support.
- 3% Pension contributions and share options.
- Generous parental leave and a nursery tax benefit scheme to help you save money.
- Cycle-to-work scheme and electric car scheme.
- Two company retreats a year, we’ve been to France, Italy, Spain, and further afield.
- A learning and development budget for everyone.
- Company-wide talks with internal and external speakers.
- Access to learning platforms like Treehouse.
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Hard Skills & Tools
SQLPythondata manipulationdata analysisdata visualisationmachine learning modelscredit risklending strategystatistical analysisportfolio performance
Soft Skills
analytical skillscollaborationevidence-based decision makingproblem solvingcommunication