Senior Affordability Manager
London / £75000 - £95000
INFO
£75000 - £95000
LOCATION
London
Permanent
Senior Affordability & Credit Strategy Manager
London
Up to £95,000
Here is the opportunity to play a key role in an innovative, fast-paced fin-tech lender in London. The company is a leader within their niche and is recruiting for a Credit Risk leader to come in take ownership of its affordability and front-end risk strategy.
THE ROLE
Your role is to lead a team of three responsible for using mass datasets to assure appropriate lending decisions are made within risk appetite. This includes ownership over the affordability strategy, broader underwriting analytics and scoping out the introduction of open banking.
- Ownership and management of affordability and broader credit risk strategies
- Develop an exceptional team of credit risk analysts
- Use your experience and analytical skills to identify opportunities to improve the existing underwriting and credit analysis framework
- Scoping, onboarding and integrating open banking into decision making
- Support the broader Credit Risk team in the development of the automated lending strategy
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
- Extensive Credit Risk experience including working on affordability
- A track record of delivering process and operational improvements of a credit risk decision platform and loan approval processes
- Proven managerial capabilities
- Good understanding of the commercial drivers within a lending business
- Customer-centric approach
- Ability to collaborate and build relationships with different stakeholders internally and externally
- German language is a plus, but English is essential

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Please register your interest by sending your CV to Kai Nicholls via the Apply link on this page.

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Please register your interest by sending your CV to Kai Nicholls via the Apply link on this page.

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