Credit Strategy Analyst

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Wilmington, DE, USA
Hybrid
100K-140K Annually
Senior level
Fintech
The Role
Develops and monitors credit strategies for home-secured personal loans, including underwriting, pricing, loan amounts, and fees. Designs champion/challenger tests, performs scenario and financial impact analysis, creates reporting, and partners with Decision Science on credit models. The role supports portfolio growth, web funnel conversion, investor risk and return targets, and strategy improvements through data-driven analysis and cross-functional collaboration.
Summary Generated by Built In

Best Egg, now part of Barclays, is a market-leading, tech-enabled financial platform helping people build financial confidence through innovative lending solutions and financial health tools. As a Barclays company, we combine the agility and customer focus of a fintech with the global reach, stability, and purpose of a leading financial institution—working together to create a better financial future for our customers and communities.


At Best Egg, you’ll find a culture grounded in our core values—putting people first, creating clarity, delivering with excellence —enhanced by Barclays’ commitment to integrity, inclusion, and long-term impact. Together, we empower our colleagues to challenge, innovate, and take ownership while making a meaningful difference in people’s financial lives.


With the strength of Barclays behind us, we offer expanded opportunities for growth, development, and career mobility across a global organization—while continuing to build the products and experiences that make Best Egg unique.


We’re looking for collaborative, curious problem-solvers who are excited to make an impact and grow with us.


We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to building a diverse and inclusive team.


We are seeking an experienced Credit Strategy Analyst to drive the growth of our home-secured personal loan portfolio. This role focuses on Underwriting, Pricing, Loan amount & Fee decisions across all acquisition channels, driving strategy improvement, innovation and investor returns.  The ideal candidate will bring expertise in lending, applying credit models, and data-driven decision-making to help us expand our market share while maintaining robust risk controls. 

This is a full-time, permanent position with competitive benefits and upward mobility. If you call yourself a self-starter who can work in any environment and enjoy every day bringing unique challenges and opportunities, then you will thrive in this role.

Duties & Responsibilities:

    • This individual will be responsible for monitoring, refining, and developing Credit strategies (including underwriting, pricing, loan amount & fees) for home secured personal loans
    • Create test/control champion/challenger tests and monitoring to inform future strategies
    • Provide scenario analysis/create financial impact sizing/develop new strategy test case
    • Perform ad-hoc analytics, create reporting and presentations
    • Work across functional areas to drive overall growth, product enhancements, and improve web funnel conversion rates across all channels.
    • Partner with Decision Science to define and develop Credit models and tools
    • Maintain overall risk and return targets for investors, particularly in a changing economic environment

Requirements – Development:

    • 5-7+ years’ experience in a similar analytical role
    • Bachelor’s Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Operational Research, Engineering, other quantitative major required; Master’s degree a plus
    • Experience in the financial industry, credit risk and mortgage/home equity experience required
    • Must be proficient in Python or similar, SQL, and MS Excel
    • Must be proficient in interpreting data using analytics, research methodologies, and statistical techniques
    • Previous experience with Business Intelligence reporting (e.g. Tableau, PowerBI, etc) is desirable
    • Excellent English written/verbal communication skills, critical thinking and interpersonal skills
    • Highly independent and self-motivated to form opinions that are supported by data.
    • Strong knowledge of modeling tools and techniques and use in strategy
    • Ability to understand competitive pressure, economic trends and their business impacts.
    • High Energy with ability to work in a fast-paced environment 

Requirements – Leadership:

    • Comfortable interacting and engaging with colleagues from all levels of management across all business units and third-party vendors
    • Demonstrated technical leadership skills including self-direction, coaching, and mentoring
    • Highly motivated, well organized, capable of developing and executing business analysis, and able to communicate status and results effectively

Requirements – Culture:

    • Ability to succeed within a cross-functional team emphasizing Collective Ownership in a fast-paced environment
    • Ability to work effectively both independently and as a team member
    • Be confident and willing to challenge status quo, but also willing to concede and execute other’s ideas when necessary
    • Capable of teaching and learning from others to promote continuity of knowledge and personal development
    • Cultivate good working relationships with other business units, particularly Marketing, Operations, and Finance

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!
 
 
In compliance with the CCPA, Best Egg is fully committed to handling the personal information and data of employees and job applications responsibly with respect and due care. Review our CCPA Employee Policy  here 

Skills Required

  • 5–7+ years of experience in a similar analytical role
  • Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Operations Research, Engineering, or another quantitative major
  • Experience in the financial industry
  • Credit risk experience
  • Mortgage or home equity experience
  • Proficiency in Python or a similar programming language
  • Proficiency in SQL
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Excel
  • Ability to interpret data using analytics, research methodologies, and statistical techniques
  • Strong knowledge of modeling tools and techniques and their use in strategy
  • Excellent written and verbal English communication skills
  • Master’s degree
  • Business intelligence reporting experience using Tableau, Power BI, or similar tools
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The Company
HQ: Wilmington, DE
498 Employees
Year Founded: 2013

What We Do

Best Egg is a consumer financial technology platform that aims to help people feel more confident about their everyday finances through a suite of products and resources. Our digital financial platform offers simple, accessible, and personalized financial solutions including personal loans, credit cards, and a financial health resource center. Our culture and values are one of the core reasons why our customers keep returning to Best Egg. We are committed to championing a culture of inclusiveness and diversity of thought, and we focus on providing a safe, flexible, and collaborative work environment. Our associates are encouraged to engage in creative problem solving, and we promote opportunities for growth and enrichment across the organization. If you are inspired by inspiring others, Best Egg is the place for you.

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