Senior Risk Analyst - Android Lending

FairMoney; Johannesburg; Remote; ZAR 136,000 - 197,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work (timezone CET overlap)

Training & Development budget

Paid company business trips

25 days paid vacation, Sick & Public/H

Job summary

FairMoney is hiring a Senior Risk Analyst to own a material credit-strategy workstream within its Android lending portfolio in Nigeria. This is a hands-on, P&L-impacting role with potential for leadership and cross-functional impact.

The position is remote for talents in South Africa and other countries, but hybrid for talents in Nigeria and India. You will collaborate with analytics, engineering, product, and compliance teams to optimize risk and performance.

Qualifications

• 4–7+ years in consumer credit risk, credit strategy, lending analytics or portfolio management.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end performance of the Android workstream and align with the annual business plan.
• Define replay, back-testing, validation and testing requirements.
• Monitor strategies after release and take corrective action when performance differs from expectations.
• Write briefs, define milestones and manage dependencies.

Skills

Credit risk

Credit strategy

Lending analytics

Portfolio management

PD

LGD

EAD

SQL

Python

R

Decision-engine

Communication

Independence

Tools

SQL

Python

R

Job description

FairMoney is a pioneering mobile banking institution specializing in extending credit to emerging markets. Established in 2017, the company currently operates primarily within Nigeria, and it has secured nearly €50 million in funding from renowned global investors, including Tiger Global, DST, and Flourish Ventures.

In alignment with its vision, FairMoney is actively constructing the foremost mobile banking platform and point-of-sale (POS) solution tailored for emerging markets. The journey began with the introduction of a digital microcredit application exclusively available on Android and iOS devices. Today, FairMoney has significantly expanded its range of services, encompassing a comprehensive suite of financial products, such as current accounts, savings accounts, debit cards, and state-of-the-art POS solutions designed to meet the needs of both merchants and agents. FairMoney thrives on its diverse workforce, bringing together talent from over 27 nationalities. This multicultural team drives the company’s mission of reshaping financial services for underserved communities.To gain deeper insights into FairMoney’s pivotal role in reshaping Africa’s financial landscape, we invite you to watch informativevideo.

The role

We are hiring a Senior Risk Analyst to own a material credit-strategy workstream within FairMoney’s Android lending portfolio in Nigeria.

This is not a monitoring-only or reporting-only role. It is a hands-on, P&L-impacting credit strategy and succession role.

Please note this role is remote for talents in South Africa and other countries but hybrid for talents in Nigeria and India.

Job Responsibilities

Workstream economics and planning

• Own the end-to-end performance of your assigned Android workstream
• Build a prioritised strategy and delivery roadmap aligned to the Android annual business plan
• Own the relevant workstream assumptions, monthly forecast and corrective actions
• Review budget-versus-actual performance and explain material variances
• Manage the relevant approval, disbursal, exposure, revenue, risk-adjusted Gross Profit, ECL, FPD, roll-rate, PAR, NPL, customer-value and recoverability metrics
• Identify material risk, economic leakage and profitable growth opportunities
• Quantify expected impact, implementation requirements, dependencies and downside risks
• Credit strategy and experimentation

Depending on your mandate, you may design and improve:

• Eligibility, requalification and rejected-customer re-entry
• PD cut-offs and calibration
• Offers, exposure limits, pricing and tenure
• DTI, affordability and income-source treatment
• Top-Up and Consolidation eligibility
• Repeat-customer growth and customer-lifecycle strategy
• High-risk treatments and policy overlays
• Customer routing and graduation logic
• Production implementation and controls
• Translate recommendations into decision-engine rules, parameters and implementation requirements
• Work directly with SQL, analytical code and decision logic where needed
• Define replay, back-testing, validation and testing requirements
• Review implementation logic for unintended policy or model interactions
• Define staged rollout, monitoring and rollback plans
• Monitor strategies after release and take corrective action where performance differs from expectation
• Maintain clear documentation, policy versioning and decision traceability
• Cross-functional delivery and governance

You will work closely with the Android portfolio leadership team, Decision Science, Engineering, Product, Growth, Finance, Portfolio Economics, Collections, Fraud, Compliance, Legal, Operations and Customer Service.

• Write clear analytical and implementation briefs

• Define owners, milestones and expected economic impact

• Manage dependencies actively and escalated blockers with options

• Operate within agreed risk appetite, budgets and delegated authority

• Scale, pause, modify or roll back controlled strategies within your mandate

• Escalate decisions outside authority or with material legal, regulatory or customer-conduct implications

• Senior individual-contributor leadership and succession

• Be the recognised owner of your assigned workstream

• Set its roadmap, forecast, scorecard and operating cadence

• Review peer analysis and improve analytical and implementation standards

• Mentor other analysts where required

• Document critical policy, model and decision-engine knowledge

• Reduce key-person dependency

• Represent your workstream in senior forums

• Deputise for the Lead Risk Manager, Portfolio Owner or designated workstream lead when required

• Build the judgement and breadth required to progress into broader portfolio ownership

• 4–7+ years in consumer credit risk, credit strategy, lending analytics or portfolio management

• Strong experience in digital unsecured lending, consumer finance, credit cards, overdrafts, BNPL or a related environment

• Evidence of owning a material credit-strategy workstream through analysis, implementation and monitoring

• Strong understanding of PD, LGD, EAD, vintages, roll rates, FPD, PAR, NPL, ECL, pricing, offers, tenure, exposure and NPV

• Strong SQL capability and comfort with Python, R or equivalent analytical tooling

• Experience translating credit strategy into decision-engine requirements or production rules

• Strong written and verbal communication

• Ability to work independently in a fast-moving and ambiguous environment

• 25 days paid vacation, Sick & Public Holidays to B2B contractors.

• Remote (timezone must have significant overlap with CET).

• Training & Development budget.

• Paid company business trips

Recruitment Process

• A screening interview with one of the members of the Talent Acquisition team.
• Business Case Study
• Technical interview with Global Head of Android Lending
• Final Interview with Chief Credit Officer