Senior Credit Strategy Analyst

Best Egg

• $150K — $160K *
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in quantitative field or equivalent experience
  • 6-10 years in credit risk, loss forecasting, or portfolio analytics
  • Expertise in forecasting payment default behavior and balance persistency for lending products
  • Advanced analytical expertise and business judgment
  • Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders

Responsibilities

  • Lead development and monitoring of default and balance persistency processes for personal loans
  • Own forward-looking guidance and performance outcomes for key portfolio segments
  • Conduct scenario analysis on the financial impact of credit policy changes
  • Assess macroeconomic trends and adjust forecasts accordingly
  • Collaborate with Capital Markets and Credit Strategy on return targets
  • Ensure scalable and compliant decision logic
  • Escalate emerging risks with analysis and recommendations
  • Maintain governance standards and documentation
  • Mentor junior team members and promote best practices

Benefits

  • Pre-tax and post-tax retirement savings plans with competitive company matching
  • Generous paid time-off including vacation, sick, and parental leave
  • Multiple health care plans, including dental and vision
  • Flexible Spending Plans for health care and dependent care
  • Company-paid life insurance and wellness benefits
  • Discounted benefits like identity theft protection and fitness reimbursements
Full Job Description
This role owns processes, models, and assumptions used to estimate expected credit losses for credit strategy calibration, capital and reporting purposes. You will partner closely with Credit Strategy, Capital Markets, and Data teams to ensure forecasts are accurate, explainable, and aligned with business expectations.

Core Responsibilities

  • Lead development, improvement and monitoring of processes for payment default and balance persistency guidance for personal loans
  • Own forward looking guidance and performance outcomes of material portfolio segments
  • Provide scenario analysis and financial impact sizing from changes in credit underwriting and pricing policy.
  • Assess macroeconomic trends and adjust expectations accordingly
  • Partner with Capital Markets, Credit Strategy on return targets
  • Ensure decision logic is scalable, compliant, and operationally sound
  • Escalate emerging risks with clear analysis and recommendations
  • Maintain governance standards and strategy documentation
  • Mentor junior team members and promote best practices


Scope and Autonomy

  • Operate with high independence and strategic judgment
  • Influence major underwriting and pricing strategy changes
  • Support highly complex, cross-functional initiatives
  • Balance growth, risk, profitability, and regulatory considerations


Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in quantitative field or equivalent experience
  • 6-10 years in credit risk, loss forecasting or portfolio analytics
  • Expertise in forecasting payment default behavior and balance persistency for lending products
  • Advanced analytical expertise and business judgment
  • Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders


What Success Looks Like

  • Clear ownership of processes and process outcomes
  • Trusted cross-functional partnership
  • Demonstrated leadership and mentorship impact


$150,000 - $160,000 a year

Employee Benefits

Best Egg offers many additional benefits for our employees, including (but not limited to):
• Pre-tax and post-tax retirement savings plans with a competitive company matching

program
• Generous paid time-off plans including vacation, personal/sick time, paid short--

term and long-term disability leaves, paid parental leave, and paid company

holidays
• Multiple health care plans to choose from, including dental and vision options
• Flexible Spending Plans for Health Care, Dependent Care, and Health

Reimbursement Accounts
• Company-paid benefits such as life insurance, wellness platforms, employee

assistance programs, and Health Advocate programs
• Other great discounted benefits include identity theft protection, pet insurance,

fitness center reimbursements, and many more!

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