Senior Credit Risk Analyst - Modelling

At Frasers Group we’re rethinking retail. Through digital innovation and unique customer experiences, we’re serving our consumers with the world’s best sports, premium and luxury brands globally. As a leader in the industry, we’re elevating the retail experience for our consumers providing flexible and convenient ways to pay across our collection of established brands, including Studio, Sports Direct, FLANNELS, USC, Frasers, and GAME

Frasers Group Financial Services is the next chapter of elevation for the Frasers Group. We fear less and do more. Our people are forward thinkers who are driven to operate outside of their comfort zone to change the future of retail, embracing challenges along the way. The potential to elevate your career is massive, the experience unrivalled.

Our purpose – we are elevating the lives of the many with access to the world’s best brands and experiences

Frasers Group Financial Services is committed to delivering a positive colleague experience and to be able to make the most of it you need to immerse yourself into delivering on our principles:

Think without limits - Think fast, think fearlessly, and take the team with you

Own it and back yourself - Own the basics, own your role and own the results

Be relevant - Relevant to our people, our partners and the planet

At Frasers Group Financial Services, we are constantly evolving & transforming, and we now have an exciting and rewarding opportunity for an experienced Senior Credit Risk Analyst to develop and monitor Credit Risk and Impairment models, coaching and mentoring Analysts, identifying and maximising opportunities to improve model performance, contributing to the delivery of FS goals and objectives.

As a Senior Credit Risk Analyst at FGFS, you will:

• Work collaboratively with the analytics manager and impairment team to develop and monitor the Credit Risk and Impairment models
• Analyse model movements, segmenting to understand trends, and make recommendations to maximise performance
• Play a key role in providing MI and insightful commentary based on model evaluation and impact assessments to drive continuous improvement
• Communicate analysis/findings and monthly monitoring effectively to manager, team and senior stakeholders
• Display strong attention to detail
• Provide effective coaching and mentoring of Analysts, building capabilities to support objectives and ensure all areas of governance, risk and compliance standards are adhered to
• Challenge current approaches, always seeking to improve
• Adhere to all governance, risk and compliance standards, ensuring models deliver the best outcomes for customers and the business
• Identify, build and maintain key internal and external stakeholder relationships to deliver the agreed commercial performance
• Experience of working within the retail, financial services sector
• Extensive experience of credit risk or impairment model development and/or monitoring
• Advanced knowledge in writing and reviewing SQL and Python/SAS code to analyse data
• Extensive experience of working and delivering in a regulated environment
• Excellent working knowledge of financial standards and guidelines e.g. FCA, TCF, Data Protection
• Experience coaching and developing the performance of others
• Delivery and customer focussed
• Ability to plan and prioritise effectively to meet changing priorities and demands
• Excellent communication and engagement skills
• Proven track record in effective facilitation and communication at multiple levels
• Commercially astute
• Ability to engage and influence stakeholders at an appropriate level
• Analytical, pragmatic and systematic approach to problem solving
• Ability to manage conflict and know when to escal
• IT literate

As FGFS is within a regulated environment any offer is subject to satisfactory background checks including criminal record check, credit check, and employment references.

Reward, Recognition and Opportunities

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