Senior Manager, Credit Risk
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JobberFintech credit risk
This role is open to candidates anywhere in Canada.Full-TimeManager
SalaryMinimum annual salary of $124,530, a midpoint of $177,900, and a maximum salary of $204,585
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Job Details
- Experience
- 8+ years of experience in credit risk ... including 3+ years of people leadership
- Required Skills
- PythonSQLMachine Learning
Requirements
- Have 8+ years of credit risk experience in financial services, fintech, payments, or lending.
- Have 3+ years of people leadership experience, ideally including hiring and developing team leads as well as analysts.
- Demonstrate experience setting and owning credit policy, risk appetite, and limit frameworks, and making and defending high-stakes credit decisions.
- Have managed a credit portfolio through stress or a full credit cycle and adjusted strategy as performance changed.
- Show a track record of solving problems through automation and tooling and an interest in applying AI to credit risk.
- Use a data-centric approach and be comfortable working directly with data.
- Be proficient in SQL and Python or a similar language for independently pulling, analyzing, and interrogating data.
- Have working familiarity with credit risk statistical and machine-learning methods, including logistic regression, decision trees, or gradient boosting, and model governance such as validation, drift monitoring, and explainability.
- Have hands-on IFRS 9 or equivalent GAAP experience, such as CECL, including building or owning an expected credit loss model and its governance.
- Communicate quantitative findings to product, operations, leadership, auditors, credit committees, and external funding partners.
- Be able to work autonomously and manage time effectively.
Responsibilities
- Lead, coach, and grow Credit Risk Analysts and, as the function scales, team leads; own hiring plans, team structure, and career paths.
- Own credit risk operations, including underwriting and exposure decisions, portfolio monitoring, collections and recovery strategy, and loss forecasting.
- Define and maintain credit risk appetite, credit policy, and limits, and serve as the escalation point for high-exposure and exception decisions.
- Partner with Data Science and Risk Analytics to build, validate, and improve credit risk models and decisioning logic.
- Drive automation and AI-native approaches to credit risk, taking opportunities from idea through implementation.
- Set the multi-year roadmap for the credit risk function across people, models, data, and tooling.
- Build the credit risk framework for Jobber Payments and design the framework for a growing lending business.
- Partner with Fintech, Product, Finance, Legal, Compliance, and Customer Support to embed risk policy and controls in product and operational workflows.
- Own credit loss provisioning and stress testing, including expected credit loss methodology, forward-looking scenarios, and management overlays.
- Report portfolio health and emerging trends to leadership and risk committees, and oversee relationships with credit data and decisioning vendors.
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