Senior Underwriter (London, Berlin, Remote)
The ideal candidate is both highly strategic and highly entrepreneurial, obsessed with driving customer success, motivated by building and shaping the future of SaaS financing. This is a unique opportunity to be part of a growing and dynamic team.
As Vitt's Senior Underwriter, you will:
- Define, build, lead the credit risk function,
- Establish credit risk management and controlling tools,
- Develop scoring methodology and credit risk models based on state-of-the-art data science as well as latest regulations.
Qualifications
- 3-5 years work experience as a data analyst SME (invoice financing credit risk management strongly preferred).
- You bring significant experience in credit risk analysis based on traditional data (financial statements, management accounts, and non-traditional information (bank account data).
- 3-5 years of professional experience in related technical areas such as model development, model validation, data science, quant finance.
- Best practice knowledge in credit risk: strong understanding of the full lifecycle from origination to debt collection – participated in envisioning and building credit policies and models from scratch.
- Deep and broad knowledge and experience in at least one of the following areas: machine learning, financial risk management, statistical modeling.
- Extensive experience with SQL, Python, or other scripting languages.
- Oriented toward detail, curious about data/models/algorithms, skilled at critical thinking and problem-solving.
- Excellent interpersonal and verbal/written communication skills.
- If you don’t meet 100% of these criteria but believe you could be a fit, please get in touch anyway!
Additional Information
Our offer:
- Location flexibility (Berlin or London, possible to become remote in the future)
- High impact on where we go
- Competitive salary
- £2,400 hardware budget
- Meaningful ESOP