Senior Financial Risk Analyst

Intuit; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 151,000 - 204,000; Full time

Job summary

Intuit QuickBooks is seeking a Senior Credit Risk Strategy Analyst to build advanced risk strategies for faster decisioning and sustainable SMB growth in the Mountain View area. You will own end-to-end policy development, partner with data science and product teams, and translate insights into measurable actions to balance risk and growth.

The role requires 4+ years in data analytics or risk roles, strong SQL/Python/Tableau skills, and advanced degree in quantitative fields.

Qualifications

• 4+ years in data analytics or data science roles supporting risk for financial services.
• Experience with statistical modeling, loss forecasting, and payments/risk trends is a plus.
• Proven ability to extract insights from data and influence business decisions.

Responsibilities

• Use advanced analytical techniques on large datasets to build risk strategies and policies.
• Lead end-to-end risk policy development, testing, production rollout, and monitoring.
• Collaborate with data science, risk operations, product, data engineering, and analytics teams.
• Perform portfolio analyses and develop customer segmentation for risk strategies.
• Evaluate third-party data providers to support credit and exposure risk.
• Design tests and experiments to estimate key risk metrics and compare methodologies.
• Exercise strong judgment to think creatively and strategically in fast-paced environments.

Skills

SQL

Python

Data analytics

Tableau

Excel

A/B testing

Storytelling with data

Problem solving

Stakeholder management

Education

MS/PhD in quantitative fields

Tools

Tableau

Excel

Job description

Overview

Intuit QuickBooks is on a mission to help small businesses with their finances and eliminates drudgery so entrepreneurs can focus on what they do best: running their business. We are looking for a strong quantitative risk strategy analyst who is an experienced risk and payments professional responsible for developing risk solutions for faster and better decisioning to facilitate sustainable business growth. You will be part of an innovative, fast-paced, and deeply passionate team that is determined to change the way SMBs get paid, to make it so they “can’t imagine going back to the old way” ever again.

This role is responsible for assisting in driving financial risk aspects of business initiatives as well as responding to financial fraud-related events and demands. Successful candidates for this role will leverage industry knowledge, risk expertise, statistical modeling/analytics, and innovative risk strategies and solutions to enable Intuit SMB growth and expansion, achieve optimal profitability, and enhance trust-related consumer and merchant experience.

Come join the FinTech Risk team as a Senior Credit Risk Strategy Analyst.

Responsibilities

• Use advanced analytical techniques to mine massive scale account and transactional data to build/optimize financial risk strategies/policies, and translate into actionable business plans
• Lead the full cycle of risk strategy/policy work, including identify opportunities and action plan, develop and test policy, launch policy to production and monitor the performance
• Build subject matter expertise in different types of risks among money movement offerings to optimize the balance between risk mitigation and growth in the Intuit ecosystem
• Team up with our data scientist, risk operations, product, data engineering, analytics teams closely to drive customer segmentations, develop innovative risk strategies, and perform portfolio analyses
• Test into and recommend 3rd party data providers to solve individual/business credit risk and other types of exposure risk
• Design, implement, and monitor testing to explore new methodologies and estimate key metrics for our risk strategies
• Must have good judgement with the ability to think creatively and strategically

Qualifications

• 4+ years working experience in data analytics or data science related roles supporting risk for financial services
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. Familiar with statistical modeling, loss forecasting, and collections. Having working knowledge of the fundamentals of payment processing and an understanding of industry fraud and risk trends is a plus
• Have a track record of diving into data and drive data insights for business needs both quantitatively and qualitatively
• Proficient in SQL, Python, Tableau, and Excel, working knowledge of A/B testing is a plus
• Passion for analyzing data and an insatiable curiosity to understand complex business issues and proactively looking for business opportunities and drive new innovations
• Ability to tell stories with data, educate effectively, and instill confidence, motivating stakeholders to act on recommendations
• Able to work in a fast-paced working environment, multitask, balancing short & long term strategic implications to meet or exceed business objectives
• MS/PhD in quantitative fields such as Statistics, Mathematics, Finance, Economics, Operations Research

Intuit provides a competitive compensation package with a strong pay for performance rewards approach. This position may be eligible for a cash bonus, equity rewards and benefits, in accordance with our applicable plans and programs (see more about our compensation and benefits at Intuit®: Careers | Benefits). Pay offered is based on factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and work location. To drive ongoing fair pay for employees, Intuit conducts regular comparisons across categories of ethnicity and gender.

The Expected Base Pay Range For This Position Is

Mountain View $150,500 - $204,000