Reporting Senior Analyst

Business Unit: Group Risk, Risk Analytics
Salary range: £31,600 - £47,400 per annum DOE
Location: Remote within the UK
Contract Type: Permanent, Full Time

Give your career some extra oomph

Join Virgin Money as we transform our team into one that is ready to meet the challenges of the future, setting us up to support our ambition to disrupt the status quo and turn traditional banking on its head. We’re on the lookout for like-minded individuals and innovators to help drive our strategy forward. We’re also transforming how we work, offering our colleagues more choice, control and flexibility to live and work how they choose with A Life More Virgin.

Here’s what it means for YOU:

• 38.5 days annual leave for all colleagues (including bank holidays and pro rata if part-time)​
• Up to five extra paid well-being days per year​
• A 35-hour working week
• 20 weeks paid, gender neutral family leave (52 weeks in total) for expectant parents and those looking to adopt
• Market leading Pension & Private Medical Insurance
• Flexible benefits including Cycle to Work, Wellness & Health Assessments and Critical Illness
• Ability to work anywhere in the UK​ (where the role allows)

And you get these Red Hot Rewards from day one!

Here at Virgin Money we take a huge amount of pride in what we do, working seamlessly across all areas to achieve the same goals for the business. This is an exciting time as we stand up our Risk Analytics Centre of Excellence (RACE). Our ambition is to drive forward enhanced modelling capability by providing:

• Consistency: Modelling choices conducted consistently across models removing incoherence between outputs.
• Best practice sharing:  Advanced modelling approaches (e.g. ML, monte carlo simulation, Open Banking data) rapidly shared.
• Delivery speed:  Ability to load balance across a large centralised team of similar skill set, building on pre-existing data sets and codes and rapidly engage with system implementation.
• Efficiency: Consolidated model landscape with re-use of engineered and cleaned data and validated code snippets

The Senior Analyst within the Model Monitoring and Management area is responsible for providing quantitative and qualitative analysis across our model suite, providing solutions supporting the acquisition of new business, risk based account management and managing the banks’ capital across its Retail and Business portfolios.

Day to day you’ll­…

• Contribute to the enhancement and maintenance of Portfolio & Credit Model reporting tools
• Investigation and resolution of credit, data, and MI related issues
• Provide support and subject matter expertise to other business units and stakeholders
• Identify opportunities to improve processes, coding efficiency and approaches
• Provide first class model insight and recommendation papers to governance committees explaining complex outcomes in a way that all stakeholders can understand – keeping it straightforward!
• Supporting the development of risk analysts, prioritising tasks and developing technical capabilities

There are a few essentials you need to bring…

• Experienced in complex credit MI solutions
• SAS / SQL coding experience or equivalent coding languages
• Experience in Microsoft Office (Excel, Word & PowerPoint)
• Experience in Banking and Risk Management, ideally in an IRB environment
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to solve complex problems independently
• Excellent communication, listening and writing skills. An ability to present analysis, both written and verbally, in a clear, concise and confident manner.

The icing on the cake would be…

• Influencing skills; the ability to form arguments and to deliver them effectively
• Knowledge of the Basel Capital Requirements Regulation and/or IFRS9
• Experience of using Tableau or Power BI

We really need you to have the skills and experience listed in the essentials section above, but the rest is just our wish list, so please don’t let that put you off applying, we’d love to hear from you!

Inclusion at Virgin Money
Inclusion is at the heart of everything we do here at Virgin Money. It’s good for you, it’s good for us and it’s amazing for our customers. We know that great minds don’t think alike, so we rely on your diverse thoughts, feelings, beliefs and backgrounds to be the best we can possibly be. Got any questions about this or need some support with your application? We’d love to hear from you so get in touch with our careers team at careers@virginmoney.com.

Now the legal bit…
Living A Life More Virgin allows our colleagues to be based anywhere in the UK (if the role allows it) but we will need to you to confirm you have the Right to Work in the UK.

If we offer you a job and you accept, there are some checks we need to complete before you can start with us. This will include a credit and criminal record check, as well as providing 3 years' worth of satisfactory references.

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