Senior Credit Portfolio Analytics Manager Job

London | Hybrid Working (3 days onsite)
Are you a credit risk professional who enjoys turning complex portfolio data into meaningful business insight?

Do you want a role that combines portfolio analytics, stakeholder engagement, strategic reporting and real influence across the business?

A leading financial services organisation is looking for an experienced Senior Credit Portfolio Analytics Manager to join a high-performing Portfolio Management function supporting oversight and development of a large UK credit portfolio (retail and corporate).This is an excellent opportunity for someone with strong credit portfolio analytics experience who can connect model outputs, portfolio performance and macroeconomic trends into clear, decision-ready insight for senior stakeholders.

The Opportunity Working within a collaborative and highly visible team, you will play a key role in shaping how portfolio performance, emerging risks and forward-looking trends are understood across the organisation.

You will lead portfolio analysis and reporting across retail, SME and corporate portfolios, helping senior stakeholders understand what is driving portfolio movements, where risks are emerging and what actions should follow.

Alongside this, you will hold first-line Model Owner responsibilities for key UK credit models, ensuring outputs are appropriately governed, understood and translated into meaningful business insight.

This role offers broad exposure across Credit, Risk, Finance, Analytics, Data and Technology functions, as well as regular engagement with senior committees and leadership teams.

What You’ll Be Doing Leading analysis of credit portfolio performance, asset quality trends and emerging risks

Producing executive and committee-ready MI, commentary and portfolio insight

Interpreting model outputs including IFRS 9, IRB, grading and stress testing impacts

Connecting macroeconomic developments and portfolio trends into forward-looking assessments

Enhancing reporting, dashboards and portfolio MI capabilities

Acting as first-line Model Owner for nominated UK credit models

Partnering with stakeholders across Credit, Risk, Finance, Data and Technology Supporting regulatory, capital and impairment-related reporting and analysis

Leading and developing a small team within a collaborative environment

What We’re Looking For We are interested in speaking with candidates who bring a combination of analytical capability, commercial awareness and strong communication skills.

You will likely have experience in:

Credit portfolio analytics or portfolio risk management

Credit risk reporting, impairment analysis or portfolio oversightIFRS 9, IRB, grading or credit model outputs

Presenting insight and recommendations to senior stakeholders

Working across multiple business areas in a fast-paced environment

You’ll also bring:

Strong Excel and data analysis capability

Experience using BI tools such as Power BI, Tableau or Qlik View The  ability to simplify complex information into clear business narrativesA hands-on and collaborative approach suited to a lean, high-performing team Previous model governance or first-line model ownership exposure would be advantageous, though this is not a pure modelling role.

Why Join?

This is a genuinely varied and visible opportunity within a growing and evolving function. You’ll have the chance to influence how portfolio insight is delivered across the UK business while working closely with senior stakeholders on strategic and regulatory priorities.

The organisation offers:

Competitive salary and bonus potential

Excellent pension and benefits package

Hybrid working model

Strong internal career development opportunitiesA collaborative and supportive culture

Location & Working Pattern This role is based in London and operates on a hybrid working model with 3 days per week onsite.

Interested?

If you’d like to learn more about the role, team or broader opportunity, please apply or contact us for a confidential discussion.

We seek individuals from a diverse talent pool and encourage applicants from underrepresented groups to apply to our vacancies.

Our commitment to fair recruitment processes means that we welcome applicants from all backgrounds, regardless of their lived experience or personal characteristics. We also invite applicants who meet most of the listed requirements, even if not all, to apply. If you require any adjustments to the application process, please let us know.

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