Director, Credit Risk Strategy – Credit Adjudication Leader
6 days ago
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The Benefits
- Competitive base pay, RRSP, and bonus plan.
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision benefits from the start date, including virtual healthcare.
- Time away including vacation time, wellness days, volunteer day, and extended holiday weekends in the summertime.
- Virtual and collaborative work environment – we provide the equipment
- GoodLife Fitness gym perks, EAP, and fun social events.
- Home office credit, referral program, a new vibrant office, and more
Flexiti Financial is seeking a Director, Credit Risk Strategy – Credit Adjudication to lead a team that leverages data and analytics to develop and execute credit adjudication strategies for our private-label and general-purpose credit card portfolios. These strategies will enable profitable growth while maintaining a portfolio loss profile that is consistent with our risk appetite.
This role partners closely with our enterprise partners in product, sales, technology, operations, and customer experience to ensure a seamless customer and merchant experience and profitable revenue growth.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead a best-in-class credit risk management team that continuously improves credit adjudication and maximizes approval rates, minimizes customer friction, and delivers profitable risk-adjusted yield.
- Demonstrate strong leadership creating an employee culture of empowerment, encouragement, and ongoing development.
- Provide mentorship to team members to excel in their roles and future opportunities.
- Develop and implement profitable Prime and Non-Prime credit adjudication strategies for our private-label and general-purpose credit card portfolios.
- Develop and maintain the code and supporting documentation for rules and calculations within the decision-engine.
- Provide subject matter expertise on managing credit risk in the portfolio.
- Manage key vendor relationships including the credit bureau and decision-engine provider.
- Develop, implement, and monitor credit risk segmentation, risk-ratings, and scores used in adjudication and pricing.
- Develop KPIs and implement reporting that provides insights into the credit risk of originations and detects emerging credit-related trends.
- Incorporate appropriate industry benchmarks into the portfolio reporting suite.
- Monitor, identify and escalate material credit risks and trends, taking ownership of action plans to mitigate losses.
- Produce actionable business insights through the analysis of data.
- Support Legal and Compliance to deliver AML and reporting regulatory requirements.
- Collaborate with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders including those in Risk Management, Software Development, Product Management, and Operations.
Requirements
- University Degree in a quantitative field, economics, business, engineering, or equivalent.
- Combined minimum of 12+ years of experience analyzing credit card data, implementing credit risk strategies, and making strategic recommendations to senior management.
- Strong understanding of consumer credit card industry and products, credit card business fundamentals, knowledge of P&L reporting and the credit card lifecycle.
- Experience with credit card adjudication platforms, parameter settings, and rules management.
- Experience with strategy development tools.
- Strong statistical knowledge with a proven track record of working with other business leaders from across the organization to drive analytically based strategies.
- Experience with machine learning and predictive model development and application.
- Knowledge of credit card data and Key Performance metrics.
- Previous people management experience.
Desirable Skills
- Someone who can work independently and likes to roll up their sleeves and get their hands dirty.
- Excellent communicator who will leverage strong oral and written communication skills to effectively present key findings to senior management and other team members.
- Possess strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Strong work ethic, curious and persistent determination in reviewing and reconciling variances.
- Highly organized, detail-oriented and can initiate proactively.
- Desire to take full ownership of deliverables and be accountable for results.
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