Sr. Risk Analyst
Cortex • Irving, Texas • Full Time
Posted on Thu, Jun 4, 2026
Cortex Management LLC d/b/a Cortex seeks Sr. Risk Analysts in Irving, TX.
- Establish, maintain, and revise underwriting strategies by conducting statistical and other data mining analyses on data including portfolio history, credit & alternate data and credit & fraud models developed by decision sciences team.
- Understand statistical techniques including linear/logistic regression, CART, and CHAID.
- Establish, maintain, and analyze various Key Performance Indicators that reflect the unit economics and underlying portfolio profitability including Revenue & Yield rates, Charge-offs and loss rates, Recovery, Customer Acquisition Costs (CAC).
- Develop portfolio review materials on a periodic basis that captures key trends against benchmarks and analyze respective variance.
- Communicate to senior management and other credit committee members the key trends and general portfolio health.
- Analyze and recommend optimal product parameters including loan amounts, interest rates and term based on target economics and performance metrics.
- Co-ordinate with the internal F.b/c: Understanding business teams including marketing, product, decision sciences, and technology teams to implement the relevant portfolio strategies including marketing and underwriting strategies, credit policy and loss mitigation strategies. - Co-ordinate and participate in devising long term portfolio strategies with the credit, marketing, product and loss mitigation teams.
- Develop testing framework, expectations on key metrics and analyze/measure against the key metrics, portfolio tests typically include loan offers, underwriting strategies, account management strategies including credit line increases, loan refinance and amendment programs.
- Present findings and make recommendations to Credit committee and portfolio management teams.
- Developing strategies to optimize consumer strategy, primarily marketing and risk strategies with the intent to maximize unit economics, reduce defaults (losses) and increase the scale of the portfolio.
Requires a Master’s degree in Statistics, Business Analytic, Operations Research, or a related field plus 2 years of related experience. Requires 2 years of experience in highly quantitative roles developing and recommending strategies using quantitative methods and justification; utilizing statistical techniques including decision tree, logistic regression, hypothesis testing; Financial Services, Risk Management, or Lending; SAS or R or Python or SQL, and Excel. This is a hybrid role with two in-office days per week at our Irving location.
40 hours/week, $115,000.00 per year. Applicants who are interested in this position may apply https://www.jobpostingtoday.com/ Ref #47593 for consideration.