Credit Decisions Strategy Analyst - 12month - £650 PD - Inside IR 35
A highly reputable financial services corporation is currently hiring an experienced Credit Decisions Strategy Analyst who has strong capabilities in Experian Strategy Design Studio (SDS), PowerCurve and UK Mortgages to help our client through an exciting/challenging modernisation program. The chosen consultant will play a lead role in desinging and delivering a credit strategy into a new risk decisioning platform as our client embarks on a 5 year digital transformation.
This is a 12 month contract opportunity paying up to £650 per day Inside IR 35 to be based in London or Chatham 3 x PW.
The chosen candidate must have prior experience building a Credit Decisioning Strategy focusing on the interpretation and coding of Credit strategies into Experian Strategy Design Studio (SDS) through a life cycle process: Analyse, Assess, Design, Develop, Test, Deploy, Monitor & Optimise.
Core responsibilities
- Support the initial design, development and testing of the Banks new Credit decisioning strategy.
- Role will focus on the interpretation and coding of Credit strategies into Experian Strategy Design Studio (SDS) through a lifecycle process: Analyse, Assess, Design, Develop, Test, Deploy, Monitor & Optimise
- Supporting the Deployment of Powercurve and SDS strategies into technical infrastructure. Providing SME guidance on best practice implementing SDS/PCO.
- Working closely with the Credit Risk function to coach / train SDS coding capability within the team
- Design, Deliver Credit strategies through the delivery of SDS coding into the new Risk decisioning platform
- Ensure rules are robustly tested with the implementation of peer testing impact assessments
- Act as the SDS SME and provide coaching / training to enable additional SDS coding capability within the Risk team. Work with those individuals to oversee coding and provide peer review testing
Core skills:
- Proven experience with Experian PowerCurve and SDS coding at an expert level
- Experience on working on decisioning systems for UK mortgages
- Strong coding knowledge and experience working with analytical tools such as SQL, SAS, R or Python)
- Knowledge of the consumer credit sectors and products, ideally residential and Buy to Let mortgages with a core background in risk and/or analytics
- Experience working with CRA (Credit reference Agency) originations and account management data / other credit data
- Knowledge and experience of credit risk processes, governance and documentation
- Experience delivering within agile environments such as Scrum & SAFe etc.