Senior Specialist, Credit Forecasting, Insights & Reporting - 12-month FTC

We’re looking for an analytically minded professional to join NewDay on a 12-month contract, focused on understanding how portfolio risk and asset quality evolve across the customer lifecycle.

Sitting within the Credit and Impairment function, the role delivers insight into cash impairment, emerging risks, and performance trends, using large datasets to inform decision-making. You’ll partner closely with Credit, Collections, Finance, and wider teams, supporting MI, forecasting, and key change initiatives including data migrations and reporting transformation.

How you’ll contribute

• Responsible for following established guidelines and identifying and resolving problems using independence of thought.

• Identify opportunities for process efficiencies and contribute to workflow/process change redesign, forming a good understanding of the specific product or process.

• Create and drive new asset quality insights to help the business assess the ‘changing shape of Risk’, taking account of current and future internal and external macro economic or strategy changes to help advise on both emerging risks and opportunities focused on cash Impairment .

• Provide insight/set expectations through targeted analysis, forecasting, and development of regular MI.

• Interrogation and manipulation of large data sets to interpret trends and KPIs

• Support business change from design to delivery, working closely with colleagues from the wider business to establish effective process design and implementation standards

• Drive regular reviews and assessment of Cash Impairment opportunities delivering key initiatives focused particularly on collections.

• Champion any data platform migrations and validations which impact ongoing credit reporting

We're looking for these essential skills

• University level or similar with highly numerate and analytical background

• Proficiency with Python/SQL/SAS for data manipulation and analysis

• Advanced Microsoft packages Excel & Power point

• Analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Experience in data visualisation and communication.

It’s a plus if you also have these skills

• Experience working in a Credit risk environment / data analytics

• Experience within a regulated financial services organisation.

• Ability to present sophisticated findings clearly, adapting the level of detail to the audience.

• Clear, logical, and analytical approach to problem solving.

• Attention to detail and accuracy focused.

• Strong statistical background

Externally this role could be known as Senior Credit Portfolio Analyst, Senior Credit Risk Analyst, Senior Impairment Analyst, Risk Analytics Analyst, Portfolio MI Senior Analyst, Credit Performance Analyst

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