Credit Risk Manager, Portfolio Management

About the role

<div class="content-intro"><p><strong><em>🚀 We’re on a mission to make money work for everyone.</em></strong></p> <p>We’re waving goodbye to the complicated and confusing ways of traditional banking.</p> <p>After starting as a prepaid card, our product offering has grown a lot in the last 10 years in the UK. As well as <a href="https://monzo.com/current-account/personal">personal</a> and <a href="https://monzo.com/business-banking">business</a> bank accounts, we offer <a href="https://monzo.com/current-account/joint-account">joint accounts</a>, <a href="https://monzo.com/current-account/16-17">accounts for 16-17 year olds</a>, a <a href="https://monzo.com/current-account/under-16s">free kids account</a> and <a href="https://monzo.com/flex">credit cards</a> in the UK, with more exciting things to come beyond. Our UK customers can also <a href="https://monzo.com/savings">save</a>, <a href="https://monzo.com/investments">invest </a>and <a href="https://monzo.com/pensions">combine their pensions</a> with us. </p> <p>With our hot coral cards and get-paid-early feature, combined with financial education on social media and our award winning customer service, we have a long history of creating magical moments for our customers!</p> <p>We’re not about selling products - we want to solve problems and change lives through Monzo ❤️</p> <hr> <p> </p></div><p>📍London or Remote (UK)  | 💰£100,000 - £130,000 + Incentive Awards tied to your performance + <a href="https://monzo.com/careers/"> Benefits</a> |<a href="https://monzo.com/blog/how-each-role-in-borrowing-data-allows-us-to-think-big-and-innovate"> Data Team, Borrowing </a></p> <p><strong>About the team:</strong></p> <p>Our Borrowing (lending) business is growing rapidly across both existing products and the planned launch of new initiatives. We aim to create a genuine feel-good factor when it comes to personal credit, and are looking for driven, analytical and creative individuals to help us achieve this goal.</p> <p>With our Flex product we’re reinventing credit cards to give customers more visibility and control over their spending. With our Flex product, we’re reinventing credit cards to give customers more visibility and control over their spending. Flex portfolio management is currently in its infancy—meaning this role is a true "zero-to-one" blank canvas. Flex behaves differently from a standard credit card, so we are looking for a highly strategic Credit Risk Manager who can challenge legacy banking assumptions, think from first principles, and put the customer at the heart of our lifecycle strategies.</p> <p>You will lead an initial team of 3 credit analysts (with scope to grow the team over time) to unlock massive P&L and customer engagement potential on a rapidly growing portfolio. While the immediate focus is scaling safely in the UK, you will help lay the groundwork for a global footprint as Monzo expands into Europe.</p> <p>Our credit teams are part of our Data Discipline which drives a strong culture of data-driven decision making across the whole company. We’re great believers in powerful, real-time analytics and empowerment of the wider business. All our data lives in one place and is super easy to use. 90% of day-to-day data-driven decisions are covered by self-serve analytics through Looker which gives analysts the head space to focus on more impactful business questions and analyses.</p> <p>Join a team where yo