Credit Risk Analyst

Posted 17 Days Ago
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Barcelona, Cataluña, ESP
In-Office
32K-44K Annually
Mid level
eCommerce • Fintech • Payments • Retail • Financial Services
The Role
Manage credit strategy for a European consumer portfolio, making decisions on approvals, limits, thresholds, and merchant risk. Analyze portfolio performance, implement and measure decisioning changes, build monitoring and documentation, and collaborate with Data Science, Data Engineering, Commercial, Account Management, and Fraud teams. The role requires strong SQL and practical Python skills, with ownership of credit risk projects from analysis through production.
Summary Generated by Built In

 

At Scalapay, we’re shaping a culture with high standards, independent and critical thought, innovation, ownership, and continuous learning. We operate in a fast-moving, tech-driven environment, and we’re looking for people who thrive in change, think boldly, and take initiative.

If you’re ready to put your potential to the test in a hiring process designed to spotlight exceptional talent, this is your chance to stand out and grow with one of Europe’s most ambitious fintech teams.

#MakeItHappen #PlayAsATeam #StayCurious #FocusOnCustomer.

THE MISSION

Behind every purchase paid in installments at one of our merchants there is a credit decision we make and own. The Credit Risk team is responsible for those decisions: who we approve, how much we extend, on what terms, and how the portfolio performs afterwards.

We're looking for a Credit Risk Analyst to join the team in Barcelona. The portfolio we manage is growing, BNPL is coming into the European regulatory perimeter, and we're building the team and the tooling to match. You'll work with the CRO, with Data Science and Data Engineering, and with Commercial, and you'll have the opportunity to fully own parts of the portfolio from early on.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

Portfolio strategy

  • Manage the credit strategy of a consumer portfolio built on millions of customers and thousands of merchants across multiple European countries: how much we extend, to whom and through which merchants. You'll work with Commercial and Account Management so that risk appetite and growth pull in the same direction.
  • Review merchants and segments, decide where the portfolio should be adjusted, and make it happen.

Decisioning and changes

  • Take credit decisions from analysis to production. Rules, credit limits, thresholds: propose the change, size it, test it, ship it, and measure what happened.
  • You take the decisions, not only prepare them. You'll hold a clear mandate on merchant and portfolio decisions from the start, with the team behind you and room to grow it.

Monitoring and tooling

  • Build the monitoring that tells us whether the portfolio and our decisions are doing what we expect, with risk-adjusted profitability as the organising metric.
  • Monitor the portfolio across customers, merchants and countries, and dig into what's moving before it turns into losses.
  • Build the team's knowledge base as you go: the decisions we take, the changes we ship and the reasoning behind them.

Collaboration

  • Work with Data Science and Data Engineering on the models, features, pipelines and data that feed our decisions. We’re aiming for a self-sufficient team on the data stack.
  • Work with the rest of the Risk function, Fraud included, on the patterns that drive losses and what to do about them.

As you settle in, you'll take on a project of your own end to end.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

Must have

  • A degree in engineering, physics, computer science, mathematics, statistics, economics or another quantitative field, or equivalent demonstrated quantitative ability.
  • 4+ years in an analytical role where your output drove decisions.
  • Strong SQL. You use it every day, you're comfortable with complex joins and window functions, and you can read someone else's query and work out why two numbers disagree.
  • Working Python. You can read and modify a pandas script, write a function and get to a result. You don't need to be a software engineer.
  • Proactivity and technical curiosity. Our domain is technical: decisions live in code, configs and pipelines, and the people who do well here go and look at how things work rather than waiting to be told.
  • Clear communication. You can explain a complex analysis to different audiences, from Commercial to leadership, and you can stand behind your conclusions.
  • Fluent English (B2+ level). This is our global internal language.

Nice to have

  • Exposure to consumer credit, BNPL, lending or e-commerce risk.
  • Familiarity with git (or another version control system), CI/CD and how pipelines and code get released to production.
  • dbt, or other analytics engineering and data modelling experience.
  • Experience with experiments, control groups or A/B testing.
WHY YOU SHOULD JOIN SCALAPAY
  • Attractive packages based on skills and experience. The salary band for this position is 32.000 - 44.000 euros.
  • Your analysis turns into decisions, and you see the results.
  • Exposure to the full credit lifecycle, from approval to portfolio performance.
  • A technical environment: you work close to the decision engine and the data pipelines, not only on their outputs.
OUR HIRING PROCESS
  1. An initial chat with our Talent team
  2. An interview with the Hiring Manager, to dive into your experience and understand your motivation
  3. A case study with the Hiring Manager and another Risk team lead
  4. A final chat with Simone, our CEO

Want to learn more? Don't hesitate to explore our Careers website, our LinkedIn and Glassdoor pages. 

Pro tip: send your CV in English 😉

Super Pro tip: we know that application processes can be scary and frustrating but… we look for talent, not people that tick all our boxes.

Skills Required

  • Degree in engineering, physics, computer science, mathematics, statistics, economics, another quantitative field, or equivalent demonstrated quantitative ability
  • 4+ years of experience in an analytical role where output drove decisions
  • Strong SQL skills, including complex joins and window functions
  • Working knowledge of Python, including reading and modifying pandas scripts and writing functions
  • Proactivity and technical curiosity
  • Clear communication skills for explaining complex analysis to varied audiences
  • Fluent English at B2+ level
  • Exposure to consumer credit, BNPL, lending, or e-commerce risk
  • Familiarity with Git or another version control system, CI/CD, and production release pipelines
  • Experience with dbt or other analytics engineering and data modeling
  • Experience with experiments, control groups, or A/B testing
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The Company
HQ: Milan
202 Employees
Year Founded: 2019

What We Do

Scalapay is an innovative payment method which allows a customer to defer payments through 3 or 4 interest-free installments. The buy now pay later service is available in over 7.000 physical stores and in the e-stores of more than 5.000 brands. The cost of the service is totally free for the customer and is financed by a commission applied to retailers who are immediately paid for their product. Scalapays’ service has seen a 48% increase in the average order value, an increase in cart conversion, and a decrease in its abandonment rate. Over a period of three months, 65% of platform users return to the store or e-commerce they purchased from using Scalapay

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