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Head of Credit Risk

Earnest Current Job Openings, California, Missouri, United States, 65018


The Head of Credit Risk position will report to the Chief Operating Officer.

As the Head of Credit Risk, you will:

Be responsible for leading, motivating, and managing a high-performing risk organization.

Oversee credit risk policy and the credit risk assessment process, including the development of risk models, scoring systems, and underwriting criteria.

Oversee the company's credit risk management strategy and promote a strong credit risk culture that aligns risk management efforts with overall business objectives.

Prepare and present comprehensive risk reports to executive leadership and other relevant stakeholders.

Represent the organization in discussions with regulators, auditors, capital suppliers, investors, bank partners, and other external stakeholders on matters related to credit risk management.

Your Impact:

This role involves attracting, growing, and inspiring a skilled team, fostering a collaborative and innovative environment, and driving strategic use of data to monitor and implement risk mitigation strategies.

Drive innovation in risk management practices by staying informed about industry trends, emerging risks, and new technologies, and integrating best practices into the company’s risk framework.

Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of credit risk management systems and processes.

Foster a culture of risk awareness and compliance throughout the organization, promoting a proactive approach to identifying and mitigating credit risks.

About You:

15+ years of experience in risk management roles within fintech or banking industry lending, risk management, risk analytics, credit, data science, fraud or information management.

10+ years personnel management experience, experience managing managers is preferred.

Knowledge of applicable laws and regulations governing the lending industry, including regulatory compliance experience.

Proven track record of developing and implementing effective risk management strategies.

Strong understanding of credit risk modeling, regulatory compliance and risk mitigation strategies.

Deep understanding of loss forecasting modeling techniques and risk mitigation strategies.

Experience and knowledge of the development and deployment of credit workflows.

Willing to travel to the Oakland or Salt Lake City office monthly to collaborate with other Earnies.

Even Better:

Experience managing 3rd party decision engines, building workflows, and integrating 3rd party data providers to increase auto approval rates.

Experience collecting or deploying strategies to improve collections on pre and post-default accounts.

Student loan experience.

Experience with Alloy, FNI, or Provenir.

SAS, SQL, Python experience.

Ability to build and deploy underwriting models.

Ability to build default and recovery models.

Where:

While you’ll enjoy the flexibility of remote work, we also love to see our Earnies face-to-face! We ask you to join us at our Oakland office for 3 consecutive days a month for team collaboration and some fun. It's a chance to connect, share ideas, and maybe even grab some coffee together!

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