Job Title: Credit Risk Strategy Manager
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Overview:
We are looking for a strategic thinker with deep analytical skills to join our Credit Risk team. This role blends quantitative expertise, credit underwriting knowledge, and business acumen to shape lending strategy. You’ll use Python and advanced analytics to evaluate datasets of all sizes, identify trends, and quantify the profitability and risk of potential changes. Your insights will directly inform executive decision-making and long-term credit policy.
Key Responsibilities:
- Drive strategic credit risk analyses to guide underwriting policy and portfolio optimization.
- Use Python and statistical modeling to assess the impact of proposed changes on profitability, loss rates, and risk exposure.
- Translate data findings into actionable business strategies, balancing growth objectives with risk management.
- Work with datasets ranging from targeted samples to large-scale transactional databases, ensuring accuracy and integrity.
- Partner with senior leaders in Risk, Finance, and Product to evaluate and prioritize strategic initiatives.
- Present recommendations to executives and stakeholders in clear, compelling, and financially grounded terms.
- Monitor external market conditions and internal performance metrics to proactively adjust strategy.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s in Statistics, Economics, Finance, or related field.
- 4+ years in credit risk analytics, underwriting strategy, or related function in financial services.
- Advanced proficiency in Python (pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn, visualization libraries) and SQL.
- Strong understanding of credit risk principles and strategic portfolio management.
- Proven track record of influencing business strategy through data-driven recommendations.
- Exceptional communication skills—able to explain complex analyses to senior decision-makers.
- Strategic mindset with high attention to detail and a bias for action.
Preferred:
- Experience in sub-prime or near-prime consumer lending.
- Familiarity with profitability modeling, ROI analysis, and credit scoring techniques.
- Exposure to BI tools (Power BI, Tableau) and big data/cloud platforms.
What We Offer:
- A high-impact role shaping the future of our lending strategy.
- Direct access to senior leadership and decision-making forums.
- A collaborative environment where strategic thinking meets technical execution.
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What We Do
Hive Financial Systems brings together decades of industry experience with sophisticated automation and technology expertise. Our focus is in the sub-prime consumer lending vertical. Consumer lending continues to be in a state of disarray in a market that has yet to reconcile with the mistakes made leading up to the financial crisis. This psychological barrier in conjunction with the current regulatory environment has contributed mightily to incredibly tight consumer underwriting standards from traditional lenders (i.e. banks) despite the fact interest rates are very low and institutional capital has found its way back into the credit market. At its simplest, the demand for alterative credit options is there, but the supply is not. It is very apparent that this market shortfall has created an arbitrage opportunity for unparalleled risk adjusted returns when compared to similar opportunities. The only question is whether or not market entrants have the skill and depth of knowledge to underwrite consumers by incorporating massive amounts of public and private data that has been ignored in making credit decision and if these companies can secure enough capital to effectively scale.
