Credit Analyst, Flex

Monzo; Greater London, Cardiff; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial technology company in London is seeking a credit strategist to develop innovative lending solutions and manage credit risk for their new credit product. The candidate will enhance credit underwriting, collaborate with diverse teams, and leverage strong analytical skills. This role offers a flexible work environment, competitive salary, and benefits including a £1,000 learning budget. Ideal for those with a passion for transforming finance and making a positive impact.

Benefits

Visa sponsorship

Flexible working hours

£1,000 learning budget

Qualifications

• Experience in unsecured retail lending such as personal loans or credit cards.
• Strong analytical and data capabilities with technical coding skills.
• Understanding of lending economics and underwriting strategies.

Responsibilities

• Develop credit and pricing strategies for Flex.
• Improve credit underwriting and manage portfolio risk.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams for product changes.

Skills

Unsecured retail lending experience

Analytical skills

Data capabilities

Communication skills

Project management experience

Tools

SQL

Python

Looker

Job description

🚀 We’re on a mission to make money work for everyone.

We’re waving goodbye to the complicated and confusing ways of traditional banking.

With our hot coral cards and get-paid-early feature, combined with financial education on social media and our award winning customer service, we have a long history of creating magical moments for our customers!

We’re not about selling products - we want to solve problems and change lives through Monzo ❤️

Our Borrowing business is growing rapidly across both existing products and the planned launch of new initiatives. Flex is an innovative credit card that gives our customers unprecedented visibility and control over their spending, offering features like flexible instalment plans and instant app management. If you are passionate about using data and agile technology to solve real-world financial problems and create a genuine feel-good factor around borrowing, this is your chance to contribute to a product that is defining the future of flexible finance.

With your experience of developing unsecured retail credit risk strategies and building best in class credit capabilities, you will be responsible for developing our credit and pricing strategies for Flex. You will work with colleagues across teams to make sure we are building profitable lending portfolios and amazing products for our customers.

• Working on initiatives to improve our credit underwriting, boost growth and/or manage portfolio risk
• Supporting the design and roll-out of new lending strategies by finding patterns in the data and translating these into insights
• Monitoring the performance of our existing strategies, and iterating to improve them
• Working alongside people from engineering, marketing, product, risk and control to design and deliver product changes
• Developing, maintaining and monitoring our credit models to assess net present value of new lending cohorts to drive strategic business decisions
• Building and maintaining the database tables and dashboards that provide insights and promote rapid, data-driven decisions
• Supporting the design and roll-out of new products and customer journeys
• Assessing how the lending portfolio of particular products will perform over time

You should apply if:

• You have experience in unsecured retail lending (e.g. personal loans, credit cards, overdrafts, buy now pay later etc.)
• You have an understanding of how the unsecured retail lending market works including the impact of pricing dynamics on portfolio performance
• You have an understanding of lending economics and have experience developing and deploying underwriting strategies
• You have strong analytical and data capabilities, backed up by technical coding skills. SQL is a must-have, Python and Looker experience is a plus.
• You have a working understanding of the regulations that apply to lending in the UK.
• You thrive in a fast-paced environment and are keen for the chance to improve our products and help ship changes to our customers
• You are a strong communicator, able to cut through complex problems and articulate decision points
• You have some experience in project management and coordination across teams
• You work well collaborating in a team with diverse skill-sets and personality types
• You are highly motivated and energised by the idea of bringing positive impact to our customers and Monzo

The interview process:

Our interview process involves 4 main stages:

• Take home task
• Final stage (x3 interviews) consisting of a case study, role specific interview and collaboration interview

Our average process takes around 3-4 weeks but we will always work around your availability.

What’s in it for you:

✅ We can sponsor visas

📍This role can be based in our London office, but we're open to distributed working within the UK (with ad hoc meetings in London).

⏰ We offer flexible working hours and trust you to work enough hours to do your job well, at times that suit you and your team.

📚 Learning budget of £1,000 a year for books, training courses and conferences

➕ And much more, see our full list of benefits here

Equal opportunities for everyone

Diversity and inclusion are a priority for us and we’re making sure we have lots of support for all of our people to grow at Monzo. At Monzo, we’re embracing diversity by fostering an inclusive environment for all people to do the best work of their lives with us. This is integral to our mission of making money work for everyone. You can read more in our blog, 2024 Diversity and Inclusion Report and 2024 Gender Pay Gap Report.

We’re an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, or veteran, neurodiversity or disability status.

If you have a preferred name, please use it to apply. We don't need full or birth names at application stage 😊