Assistant Manager, Regional Credit Risk, Consumer Lending

Grab Group; Petaling Jaya; On-site; MYR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Term Life Insurance

Medical Insurance

GrabFlex

Parental leave

Birthday leave

LASA volunteering leave

Grabber Assistance Programme

FlexWork hours

Job summary

Grab is seeking an Assistant Manager, Regional Credit Risk in consumer lending to drive risk management strategies and policies. You will design underwriting and portfolio management approaches for the BNPL product, and collaborate with country risk teams and stakeholders.

This role is based onsite in Petaling Jaya. You will combine advanced analytics with strategic foresight to optimize risk strategy, ensure regulatory compliance, and support cross-country risk initiatives.

Qualifications

• Advanced credit risk models and portfolio analytics knowledge.
• Experience in consumer lending life cycle, origination and portfolio management.

Responsibilities

• Design underwriting and account management strategies for consumer lending.
• Lead data-driven risk initiatives across regional teams.
• Monitor portfolio risk reports and advise stakeholders.
• Support product and risk parameter estimation and regulatory compliance.
• Collaborate with partners to optimize risk and profitability economics.

Skills

Statistics/Math background

Credit risk analytics

Python

SQL

Data visualization (Power BI)

Education

Master's/Bachelor's in Statistics/Mathematics/Economics or related

Tools

Python

SQL

Power BI

Job description

About Grab and Our Workplace

Grab is Southeast Asia's leading superapp. From getting your favourite meals delivered to helping you manage your finances and getting around town hassle-free, we've got your back with everything. In Grab, purpose gives us joy and habits build excellence, while harnessing the power of Technology and AI to deliver the mission of driving Southeast Asia forward by economically empowering everyone, with heart, hunger, honour, and humility.

Get to Know the Team

The rapidly expanding Regional Credit Risk department at Grab Financial Group (Grab's newest vertical in Financial Services space), develops and launches credit products across multiple countries in SouthEast Asia.

The position is within the core credit risk team that looks after Grab's Buy-Now-Pay-Later (BNPL) product, as we do this from scratch we have complete responsibility for each product: developing the backend (Credit Decision engine), the front-end (Limit Management), use of the data science models, and then creating a local setup in each country with scalable risk management and portfolio management solutions.

The Lending team is made up of a mix of risk management, product, design and software professionals, providing lots of opportunity to share knowledge and learnings across functions.

Get to Know the Role

The Assistant Manager for Regional Credit Risk in consumer lending is responsible for managing and driving credit risk management strategies, policies, and procedures. This role offers a unique opportunity for rapid professional growth, encompassing all aspects of the credit risk framework, from data integrity to system reporting. The individual will be involved in designing underwriting and account management strategies for the consumer portfolio and will work closely with the vertical/ functional heads, country risk teams, and other functional stakeholders to execute them.

This role will be reporting to Manager, Regional Credit Risk, Consumer Lending and be based onsite in our Petaling Jaya office.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

The role will be responsible for combining advanced analytics with strategic foresight to optimize our credit risk strategy, operations, ensuring sustainable growth and steadfast compliance in a dynamic financial landscape

• Optimize underwriting and portfolio management risk policies through use of analytics and strategies for consumer portfolios
• Understand, implement, and promote best lending practices across different countries, ensuring successful acquisition and portfolio management strategies are integrated.
• Continuously monitor portfolio risk reports, leveraging them to pinpoint and capitalize on opportunities for enhancing credit program efficiency.
• Regularly provide ad-hoc credit risk evaluations and advisory to Regional teams, Group Risk Head, and other key stakeholders.
• Assist in product and credit program development, reviewing and estimating risk parameters, product pricing, structure, and ensuring regulatory compliance.
• Drive business agenda with potential partners, ensuring optimal risk and profitability economics.

What Essential Skills You Will Need

• A Master's/Bachelor's degree in a related domain in Statistics, Mathematics, Economics or relevant
• With a minimum 4 years in roles such as Credit Underwriting, MIS Reporting, Credit Policy, or Credit Analytics within the financial services or FinTech industry
• Experience with the retail banking customer credit life cycle, including origination and portfolio management; with prior experience in consumer lending (preferably credit cards/ personal loans/ Buy now pay later).
• Advanced technical expertise concerning credit risk models, database management, and segmentation techniques.
• Expertise in using Python and SQL for data analysis. Knowledge in visualization/dashboard tools such as Power BI will be an advantage.

Life at Grab

We care about your well-being at Grab, here are some of the global benefits we offer:

• We have your back with Term Life Insurance and comprehensive Medical Insurance.
• With GrabFlex create a benefits package that suits your needs and aspirations.
• Celebrate moments that matter in life with loved ones through Parental and Birthday leave, and give back to your communities through Love-all-Serve-all (LASA) volunteering leave
• We have a confidential Grabber Assistance Programme to guide and uplift you and your loved ones through life's challenges.
• Balancing personal commitments and life's demands are made easier with our FlexWork arrangements such as differentiated hours

What We Stand For At Grab

We are committed to building an inclusive and equitable workplace that provides equal opportunity for Grabbers to grow and perform at their best. We consider all candidates fairly and equally regardless of nationality, ethnicity, race, religion, age, gender, family commitments, physical and mental impairments or disabilities, and other attributes that make them unique.