Senior Staff Credit Risk Analyst

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The role:

SoFi Technologies Inc. is seeking a skilled and experienced Senior Staff Credit Risk Analyst to join our dynamic team. As a key contributor, you will play a crucial role in the development and execution of industry best Credit Risk Management. The incumbent will improve comprehensive risk management capabilities for a rapidly growing bank holding company – ensuring robust defensive and offensive analytical capabilities –  The contributor will play an essential role in fostering regulatory readiness and maturing a strong effective challenge second-line function across Credit Risk. 

The Credit Risk Oversight (2LOD) Senior Staff Credit Risk Analyst role is critical to success across SoFi Technologies, Inc., SoFi Bank, NA, and operating subsidiaries. The incumbent will contribute to the second-line oversight of credit risk across all SoFi’s Small Business lending products. The role will perform advanced analytics to identify gaps and opportunities in the credit risk strategies and policies to ensure effective controls, performance monitoring and maintain an effective challenge environment. 

What you’ll do:

• Provide analytical support for data-driven insight generation to provide effective challenge to first line Credit through a combination of Small Business loan expertise and high-quality analytical thought processes

• Support 2nd line Small Business Credit Risk by driving robust monitoring and adherence to risk appetite, risk identification, issue management and regulatory reporting

• Monitor operational performance, roll rates, delinquent inventory, and credit loss trends.  Perform diagnostic analyses on all aspects of Portfolio Management policies to assure strategies are fully optimized.  Effectively communicate these trends to management

• Review KPI/KRIs to monitor credit performance and and evaluate the effectiveness of current policies and procedures

What you’ll need:

• Bachelor's degree and 12+ years of related experience or Master's degree and 8+ years of related experience

• Industry knowledge, including a sound understanding of relevant regulations 

• Proactive go-getter able to to work in a fast-paced environment and proven ability to innovate 

• High motivation to drive change, eager to learn, and able to work collaboratively in a complex and fluid environment

• Demonstrated ability to think critically to identify and solve problems through structured analytical reasoning;  Excellent verbal, written and presentation / story-telling skills to bring analysis findings to the forefront and influence change.

• Proven analytical and data mining skills ; excellent command over one or more of SQL, Python, R, SAS.  Previous experience creating analytics on Tableau a plus

• Working familiarity with automated monitoring tools and incident remediation