Credit Risk Analyst - Northampton, United Kingdom - eFinancialCareers

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Northampton, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Description

As a Barclays Credit Risk Analyst, get the opportunity to drive value through appropriate Risk Management of relevant credit risk analytics and strategies for the Barclays Payments Small Business Issuing portfolio (BPI).

Developing and optimisation ofcredit risk strategies and processes with accountability for driving profitability and growing the portfolio within the defined risk appetite, tracking and monitoring of BPI credit risk strategy performance, and providing insights and recommending improvementswill be your responsibilities.

Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, with 329 years of success, quality, and innovation behind us.

We offer careers that provide endless opportunity - helping millions of individuals and businesses thrive and creatingfinancial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted.

Working Flexibly

What will you be doing?:

Supporting the development and optimization of various existing customer management strategies
Providing insight and recommendations to Senior Credit Risk Manager in order to support in the creation of risk strategies to contain the cost of risk and achieve P&L/impairment targets
Assisting in the indepth monitoring of performance of certain credit policies, highlighting trends / insights, and driving corrective actions
Ensuring strategy and model documentation and governance remains upto date, and working with the internal validation unit to ensure models are wellgoverned
Backing external reviews of all strategies and policies (e.g., Audit, Peer review), and ensuring we remain compliant as a business to all internal and external controls
Sourcing data from various data warehouses and external partners
Responding to requests for information from senior management, and producing timely, clear, and accurate data/insight to meet those requests

What we're looking for:

Practical experience of using analytics to solve complex business problems
Passionate about data analysis and how this contributes to the business
Advanced understanding of standard statistical package (SAS/SQL essential) and Excel

Skills that will help you in the role:

Background in Credit Risk
Bachelors/Master's degree in Statistics, Mathematics', or Operational Research would be advantageous
Experience using Python

Where will you be working?

Northampton was the birthplace of Barclaycard in 1966 and we've been based in Pavilion Drive since the building opened in 1997.

We purchased the building from the landlord in early 2018 as a sign of our commitment to investment in Northampton.

Plans to further develop this Campus-style location are under way to allow for a real collaborative work environment. Based just off the A45it is easily accessible by both car and bus routes.