Head of Credit Risk - SME
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Location
London
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Discipline:
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Job type:
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Salary:
£80,000 - £100,000
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Consultant:
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Email:
nomhamed@merje.com
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Job ref:
NM/15929
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Published:
over 1 year ago
An unrivalled opportunity to take a role with broad responsibility and lasting impact. As a Head of Credit Risk you will be responsible for defining, implementing and monitoring the risk framework of the business.
Key responsibilities include:
- Build and lead the team using data to drive credit decisions, including credit approvals, credit limits etc
- Establish underwriting policy and lending strategies
- Assess new and existing clients from a credit risk perspective
- Deliver credit review methodology
- Act as a thought leader across the analytics function and wiser the wider business
- Work with the engineering team to set up appropriate data & modelling infrastructure as well as build product customers will love to use
- Communicate and report to all key stakeholders, including board, investors and capital providers
The Person:
- You’re bright, thoughtful and analytical, as well as a great leader
- Extensive experience in risk analysis, modelling and scoring, ideally in the SME sector
- Experience in building a team focused on risk and analytics function
- Outstanding academic background
- You have extensive experience in working with large data sets
- Proficiency in SQL, Excel and ideally R, Python or SAS
- Good communication and leadership skills
- You’re excited to work in a start-up environment
Please note, should you not receive feedback 28 days, unfortunately your application has been unsuccessful. However, we may be in touch with similar relevant opportunities.