Senior Credit Risk Analyst

• 26 days holiday, and a day off for your birthday (increasing with service to 30 days), plus bank holidays
• Free access to company holiday homes
• Buy & sell holidays
• Discretionary annual bonus plus an additional Shared Reward Bonus
• Life assurance and Critical illness cover
• Travel season ticket loans and Ride to work scheme
• Free local gym access
• Local bar / restaurant discounts

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We’re Together. For over 50 years, we’ve helped thousands of people, businesses and professionals unlock their property ambitions with our common-sense approach to mortgages and secured loans.

Based in Cheadle, Cheshire, our 750 colleagues help our customers throughout the UK, backed by the power of a £7 billion loan book.

• 26 days holiday, and a day off for your birthday (increasing with service to 30 days), plus bank holidays
• Free access to company holiday homes
• Buy & sell holidays
• Discretionary annual bonus plus an additional Shared Reward Bonus
• Matched pension contribution
• Health cash plan plus Private medical insurance
• Life assurance and Critical illness cover
• Travel season ticket loans and Ride to work scheme
• Free local gym access
• Local bar / restaurant discounts

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We’re Together. For over 50 years, we’ve helped thousands of people, businesses and professionals unlock their property ambitions with our common-sense approach to mortgages and secured loans.

Based in Cheadle, Cheshire, our 750 colleagues help our customers throughout the UK, backed by the power of a £7 billion loan book.

As a Senior Credit Risk Analyst you will be responsible for supporting the oversight of first line credit risk management and the reporting and development of product standards. You will analyse portfolio risks and concentrations and build portfolio and arrears forecasting; escalating material risks to committees as required. You will also support the Senior Manager Credit Risk in the development of cost of risk and use of credit scoring strategies for our product portfolios.

In liaison with key stakeholders you will identify key pockets of credit risk and ensure that these are being appropriately managed.

As a Senior Credit Risk Analyst we are looking for someone to:

• Have oversight of first line credit risk management activity
• Analyse portfolio credit risks, providing timely and accurate updates to risk committees.
• Pro-actively identify trends and insights based on regular credit risk reporting, supporting the Senior Credit Risk Manager with the actions required to address areas of concern/opportunity, working with the first line credit risk team
• Support the Senior Credit Risk Manager with the input and running of 2nd line oversight committees and regular routines
• Perform analysis to support changes to credit risk strategies, lending and arrears management policies
• Support development and monitoring of new products and strategies
• Analyse portfolio risks and concentrations and build portfolio and arrears forecasting; escalating material risks to committees as required.
• Support the Senior Manager Credit Risk in the development of cost of risk and use of credit scoring strategies
• Liase with key stakeholders, identify key pockets of credit risk and ensure that these are being appropriately managed.
• Support the development of affordability, valuation and credit strategies
• Maintain comprehensive governance, procedures and records
• Build and maintain a strong stakeholder network to share credit risk expertise and insight across the organisation

Essential:

• Numerical degree, strong analytical skills and excellent attention to detail
• Experience in a credit risk environment
• A solid grounding in data analysis using quantitative analytic tools.
• Strong SQL…