Senior Manager, Small Business Credit Strategy

Job Description

What is the opportunity?

As a Senior Manager, Small Business Credit Strategy, you are primarily responsible for developing credit strategies using advanced analytics for Small Business products as well as improving profitability by recommending solutions that balance risk, reward, operational efficiency, and customer impact. You will support the business targets for growth, while ensuring appropriate risk mitigation strategies are in place and the overall quality of the portfolio is maintained

What will you do?
 

• Design credit strategies covering Small Business products, including targeting criteria, adjudication and exposure management, ensuring adequacy of risk and return as well as regulatory and internal compliance through comprehensive data analysis and predictive financial and credit modeling.

• Lead end-to-end stakeholders meetings with senior management in Group Risk Management, Product teams, and Collections to understand and propose new strategies designed to help achieve business targets as well as obtain approval of credit strategies with concise rationale supported by comprehensive analysis and documentation.

• Identify and recommend opportunities, and drive initiatives that will enhance strategy and portfolio performance or improve existing processes.

• Develop and manage performance monitoring and reporting for relevant strategies and customer segments, in order to enable actionable insight for key stakeholders, including Group Risk Management.

• Support new strategy development with advanced analytics and data science.

• Cross-functional stakeholder management of business, operations and other GRM teams.

• Monitor any changes in portfolio risk to pre-empt stress to Collections.

What do you need to succeed?
Must-have
 

• 5+ years of experience performing advanced analytics or data science, ideally for credit lending or deposit products.

• Proficient technical knowledge of data querying tools such as SAS, SQL, Python, etc.

• Strong interpersonal, communication and presentation skills, with the ability to create and articulate a compelling business case to senior management and other stakeholders

• Strong analytical and problem solving skills

Nice-to-have:

• MBA and/or Undergraduate degree in Economics, Business, Statistics or other quantitative field of study.

• Experience in financial services industry with broad understanding of risk management, credit strategy, and analytics

• Knowledge of Personal and Business banking products

What's in it for you?

We thrive on the challenge to be our best, progressive thinking to keep growing, and working together to deliver trusted advice to help our clients thrive and communities prosper. We care about each other, reaching our potential, making a difference to our communities, and achieving success that is mutual.
 

• A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits, competitive compensation and commissions

• Ability to make a difference and lasting impact

• Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team

• Opportunities to do challenging work

• Opportunities in building close relationships with clients

Job Skills

Big Data, Credit Risks, Critical Thinking, Data Science, SAS Enterprise Guide, Small Businesses

Additional Job Details

Address:

RBC WATERPARK PLACE, 88 QUEENS QUAY W:TORONTO

City:

Toronto

Country:

Canada

Work hours/week:

Employment Type:

Full time

Platform:

GROUP RISK MANAGEMENT

Job Type:

Regular

Pay Type:

Salaried

Posted Date:

Application Deadline:

Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above

Inclusion and Equal Opportunity Employment

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