AVP, Quantitative Risk Analyst

Reposted 3 Days Ago
San Diego, CA
In-Office
89K-120K Annually
Mid level
Fintech
The Role
As AVP, Data Scientist at Axos Bank, you will analyze retail loan data, develop underwriting tools, and mentor junior analysts. You will collaborate with business leaders to optimize loan performance and support decision-making through data insights.
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Axos Bank

Target Range:

$89,000.00/Yr. - $120,000.00/Yr.

Actual starting pay will vary based on factors including, but not limited to, geographic location, experience, skills, specialty, and education.

Eligible for an Annual Discretionary Cash Bonus Target: 10%

Eligible for an Annual Discretionary Restricted Stock Units Bonus Target: 10%

These discretionary target bonuses may be awarded semi-annually based upon your achievement of performance goals and targets.

About This Job

Axos is seeking a data-driven professional to join our Retail Lending Strategy team as an AVP, Quantitative Risk Analyst. In this role, you’ll apply analytical thinking, portfolio analysis, and strategic insight to improve the performance and risk management of our retail loan products. You’ll collaborate with underwriting, business leaders, and analytics teams to develop tools and insights that drive smarter lending decisions.
This is a high-impact role ideal for someone with strong quantitative skills and a passion for solving complex problems — whether you come from banking, fintech, consulting, or another analytical field.

Responsibilities:

  • Analyze retail loan performance data to identify trends, risks, and opportunities for optimization
  • Develop and refine underwriting models, evaluation rules, and decisioning tools to support automated loan approvals and portfolio management
  • Evaluate borrower profiles, credit bureau data, and fraud indicators to inform risk scoring and lending strategies
  • Partner with underwriting and business leaders to translate data insights into actionable strategies aligned with regulatory and business goals
  • Define dashboard requirements and collaborate with BI teams to deliver real-time portfolio performance metrics using tools like Tableau
  • Act as a liaison between data teams and business stakeholders, ensuring insights are clearly communicated and effectively applied
  • Mentor junior analysts in modeling techniques, stakeholder engagement, and data storytelling

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Finance, Economics, Mathematics, or a related field
  • 3+ years of experience in quantitative analysis, risk modeling, or portfolio analytics (banking experience is a plus, but not required)
  • Intermediate SQL experience (ability to write queries, join tables, and manipulate datasets)
  • Advanced Excel skills (pivot tables, lookup formulas, logic-based rules like IF, COUNTIFS, SUMIFS)
  • Strong attention to detail and ability to validate your own work
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills

Axos Employee Benefits May Include:

  • Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance

  • Paid Sick Leave, 3 weeks’ Vacation, and Holidays (about 11 a year)

  • HSA or FSA account and other voluntary benefits

  • 401(k) Retirement Saving Plan with Employer Match Program and 529 Savings Plan

  • Employee Mortgage Loan Program and free access to an Axos Bank Account with Self-Directed Trading

About Axos

Born digital-first, Axos delivers financial tools and services that allow individuals, small businesses, and companies to access and manage their money how, when, and where they want. We’re a diverse team of dynamic, insightful, and independent innovators who are excited to provide technology-driven solutions that offer unbeatable value to our customers.

Axos Financial is our holding company and is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "AX" (NYSE: AX).

Learn more about working at Axos

Pre-Employment Background Check and Drug Test:

All offers are contingent upon the candidate successfully passing a credit check, criminal background check, and pre-employment drug screening, which includes screening for marijuana. Axos Bank is a federally regulated banking institution. At the federal level, marijuana is an illegal schedule 1 drug; therefore, we will not employ any person who tests positive for marijuana, regardless of state legalization.

Equal Employment Opportunity:

Axos is an Equal Opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, religious creed, color, sex (including pregnancy, breast feeding and related medical conditions), gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, military and veteran status, marital status, age, protected medical condition, genetic information, physical disability, mental disability, or any other protected status in accordance with all applicable federal, state, and local laws.

Job Functions and Work Environment:

While performing the duties of this position, the employee is required to sit for extended periods of time. Manual dexterity and coordination are required while operating standard office equipment such as computer keyboard and mouse, calculator, telephone, copiers, etc.

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee may encounter while performing the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position.

Top Skills

Excel
Machine Learning
Predictive Modeling
SQL
Tableau
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The Company
HQ: San Diego, CA
1,001 Employees
Year Founded: 2000

What We Do

Axos is a technology-driven financial services company providing a diverse and ever-growing range of innovative products and services for personal, business and institutional clients nationwide.
Powered by exceptional team members, a clearly defined set of values and a culture that is both meritocratic and self-governing, we are transforming banking as we know it.

Our mission is summed up in two words: Banking Evolved.
Banking Evolved means providing products and services that are technologically superior to our competitors and that offer our customers an unbeatable value proposition.
Banking Evolved means continuously innovating and excelling in the following areas:
• The incubation, creation and deployment of new businesses and tools that best serve our customers;
• The evolution, optimization, delivery, distribution and marketing of our products;
• The harnessing of data and technology to manage our business most effectively and efficiently; and
• The development and engagement of our team members.

To be part of the Axos team is to live our values as your own, to work with a strong sense of individual purpose and to embody a commitment to the shared success of our business.
As a meritocracy, we believe that success is earned. We reward individuals on the basis of their achievements.
As a self-governing organization, we derive strength from the internal resourcefulness of each individual. We emphasize independence, goal-setting and personal accountability.

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