Credit Risk Analyst

Job Context

Working for a telecoms company, predominantly this person will be responsible for interpreting information provided by the team, and based on this information present and make recommendations to senior management.

It is a lead role where they will be the main link into the Sales and Marketing teams, will also manage 1 direct report who is a Credit Analyst. The overall team has 19 people.

The Role:

• Regular communication with all business areas (mainly Sales, Marketing and Fraud) and the channel partners
• Analyse and interpret credit policies in order to make recommendations
• Budget, forecast and reforecast Credit Risk Opex
• Involved in the future planning of campaign activity
• Involvement in ad-hoc projects
• To provide recommendations and insight based on analysis
• Manage key performance objectives
• Mentor and develop team members, will , manage 1 direct report who is a credit analyst

Requirements:

• Excellent written and verbal comms
• Experience of leading a team or mentoring junior members of a team
• Analytical approach to problem solving
• Intermediate Excel skills (Pivot tables, v-lookup, formulas)
• Ability to work under pressure
• No finance qualifications required
• Open to background - Ideally insurance/asset finance/finance/credit risk - The current team come from various industries e.g. Leaseplan, Capita.

Key Additional Info

• There is flexibility to work from home one day a week (not Tuesdays as they have to be onsite for the weekly sales meeting).
• Due to the team being split between Maidenhead and Glasgow, there will be the occasional (3-4 time a year) travel to Glasgow for team events.
• This is more of a fluffy role, it's a lot more about the softer skills.

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