Credit Risk Analyst

Recruiter:

Communicate Recruitment: Finance 3

Job Ref:

CPM047900/CM

Date posted:

Wednesday, April 6, 2022

Location:

Johannesburg, South Africa

Salary:

R 400 000 Annually

SUMMARY:
To provide/facilitate data-driven and quantitative analysis that informs credit risk management strategies and processes across the credit life cycle (i.e. Origination, Account Management and Collections) and to work in collaboration with team members that engage in the above analysis. The focus of this role will be on Account Management.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Education and Experience

MSc/ BSc (Hons) in Statistics/ Actuarial Science/ Financial Maths/ Applied Maths
At least 1-2 years of experience in relevant field (e.g. behavioural credit scoring, credit risk management processes across the credit life cycle)
Programming capabilities in SAS / R / Python / VBA
Retail banking experience
Strong track record of professional performance
Skilled in Microsoft products, particularly PowerPoint, Word, Excel and Access

Areas of responsibility may include but are not limited to

Work and collaborate on the following account management activities that directly impact the financials:
Develop mathematical and statistical models for risk quantification in accordance with relevant modelling methodology and guidelines.
Development and implementation of the high risk account management strategy, limit increase strategy and forced limit decrease strategy for risk management inaccordance with the relevant guidelines.
Monitor and run assurance on system functionality than enables the facility structure that is the core component of the credit product.
Provide meaningful insights, trends and recommendations with the objective of informing credit policy and business strategy through analytical methods.
Create business reporting that is of a consistently high quality and standard to inform and/or drive business processes.
Evaluate profitability of current policy / rule sets, generate and evaluate alternatives.
Conduct detailed analytical work with a high level of accuracy in order to deliver high level results to senior management.
Responsible for managing issues through to resolution.
Working with other team members within the Credit Team to ensure:
The management of key stakeholder relationships. (i.e. Product, Credit Ops, EIS, System)
Effective team management to produce results in line with strategy.
Improved processes and a collaborative working culture.

Please note if you have not heard back from us withing a week of submitting your application, consider it unsuccessful. We will however contact you for any other suitable opportunities in the future.

NB! This job is now closed. You can apply for other jobs by uploading your CV.

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